https://sclaw.in/2026/08/01/specific-relief-act-1963-section-20-specific-performance-discretionary-and-equitable-relief-clean-hands-grant-of-specific-performance-is-discretionar/ 2026-08-01T14:43:29Z Supreme Court of India Judgements en Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 20 — Specific performance — Discretionary and equitable relief — Clean hands — Grant of specific performance is discretionary, not automatic even where a valid contract subsists; a plaintiff must approach the Court with clean hands. Where the plaintiff's spouse lodged a criminal complaint seeking recovery of the advance paid, alleging the vendor fraudulently suppressed a subsisting injunction, while simultaneously maintaining a civil suit for specific performance, such conduct amounts to blowing "hot and cold" and disentitles the plaintiff to equitable relief. 2026-08-01T14:43:29Z Blog https://sclaw.in/2026/08/01/criminal-procedure-code-1973-crpc-section-299-absence-of-order-effect-on-conviction-where-no-order-under-s-299-was-ever-passed-at-the-stage-the-co-accused-w/ 2026-08-01T14:36:35Z Supreme Court of India Judgements en Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 299 — Absence of order — Effect on conviction — Where no order under S. 299 was ever passed at the stage the co-accused was tried (case having been split due to abscondence), the earlier deposition of a witness (since deceased) could not be relied upon to convict the accused apprehended and tried years later; identification by surviving eyewitnesses being doubtful and other witnesses having turned hostile, conviction based on such uncorroborated prior testimony unsustainable — appellant acquitted. 2026-08-01T14:36:35Z Blog