Tagged “section-27”

5 articles on section-27.

Supreme CourtSupreme Court of India

Aghnoo Nagesia v. State of Bihar: the Section 25 bar on police confessions (1965)

Supreme Court, 1965: Section 25 of the Evidence Act is an absolute bar, and a confessional FIR cannot be split into admissible and inadmissible parts.

Valkya Editorial·15 Jun 2026·7 min

Landmark JudgmentPrivy Council

Pulukuri Kottaya v. Emperor: the scope of 'fact discovered' under Section 27

In 1947 the Privy Council, through Sir John Beaumont, settled the meaning of 'fact discovered' under Section 27 of the Evidence Act — the bedrock test for every disclosure-and-recovery dispute that follows.

Valkya Editorial·14 Jun 2026·7 min

TribunalNational Company Law Appellate Tribunal

Keshav Bihani v. CCI: NCLAT upholds the Railways polyacetal-tubes cartel penalty and clarifies Section 48 individual liability

NCLAT Principal Bench dismisses appeals against CCI's bid-rigging finding on the polyacetal protective-tubes suppliers to Indian Railways; reads 'punished accordingly' in Section 48(1) of the Competition Act 2002 (pre-2023 Amendment) to mean the individual penalty must match the enterprise penalty in scale, applied to the active partner's income.

Valkya Editorial·2 Jun 2026·10 min

TribunalCompetition Commission of India

CCI v. Purbanchal Enterprise: bid rigging in Assam Police Housing tenders, cease-and-desist without penalty

On 7 April 2026 the Competition Commission held seventeen electrical contractors liable under s.3(3)(d) for cover bidding and bid rotation in APHCL tenders, but issued only a cease-and-desist direction under s.27(a) — calibrating contravention-finding against penalty-quantum where the contraveners are small enterprises with geographically circumscribed conduct.

Valkya Editorial·1 Jun 2026·8 min

Supreme CourtSupreme Court of India

State of Maharashtra v. Suresh: last seen, false explanation and the additional link

In 1999 the Supreme Court set out the three-possibilities rule on recovery of a concealed body and held that a false explanation is only an additional link in a chain.

Valkya Editorial·1 Jun 2026·8 min