·         Retrospective seniority cannot be claimed from a date when an employee is not even borne in service ·         Prosecution must establish existence of proximate and live link between dowry death and cruelty ·         Whether a divorced daughter, entitled to compassionate appointment ·         SC to study plea against maintenance for parent ·         An entity misusing the status conferred, not entitle to retain that status ·         Section 482 to quash criminal proceedings is an exception and not a rule