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Ashoo Surendranath Tiwari vs Deputy Superintendent Of Police, EOW, CBI held explicitly, effectively and elegantly that in a case of exoneration in departmental proceedings on merits and where the...Hits: 6727
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Kerala HC Issues General Directions For Investigation And Trial In POCSO Cases
Abhishek K.A. @ Bhanu vs. Kerala Investigating authorities and Trial Courts while dealing with POCSO crimes and cases. Justice PB Suresh Kumar who authored this latest, landmark and extremely...Hits: 6194 -
Maksud Sheikh Gaffur Sheikh vs Maharashtra the benefit under Section 436-A of CrPc can be extended to an undertrial prisoner only, not a convict who has challenged his conviction under Section 374...Hits: 8946
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Bombay HC Directs State And University To Pay Rs 5 Lakhs Each To Bhima Koregaon Accused Shoma Sen
Shoma Sen D/o Kanti Sen Vs. Maharashtra directed Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University and the State Government to pay Rs 5 lakh each to former Head of Post Graduate Department of English at Nagpur...Hits: 4046 -
XYZ v. State of Chhattisgarh the petitioner (rape victim) was entitled to compensation of Rs 7 lakhs along with interest under Section 357-A of the CrPC read with Section 33(8) of the POCSO Act....Hits: 4318
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Colonel Bhupendra Singh Kharayat v/s Madhya Pradesh A 78-year-old retired Colonel of the Indian Army being arrested and has rapped the EOW (Economic Offences Wing), Bhopal for arresting him in a...Hits: 5179
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Sunil Kumar v/s Himachal Pradesh the institution of two bail petitions arising out of the same FIR by the same petitioner. It is most heartening and refreshing to learn that the Bench of Justice...Hits: 4372
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Sami-ullah Naqashbandi V/s Sadaf Niyaz Shah held that once a Magistrate takes cognizance of an offence, he is, thereafter, precluded from ordering an investigation under Section 156(3) of the Code.Hits: 5320
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SC Orders CBI Probe In Sushant Singh Rajput Case And Holds Bihar Police FIR Valid
In a big setback to Maharashtra government which never wanted CBI probe in Sushant Singh Rajput case, the Supreme Court in this high profile case titled Rhea Chakraborty Vs. State of BiharHits: 4029 -
Savitri vs Haryana that the trial courts have no power to order a life sentence to run till natural life or to hold that no remission will be granted.Hits: 9378
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Jitesh vs. Kerala that the police officers must restrain themselves from rushing to media to reveal details about the ongoing criminal investigations and must always remember that a criminal case...Hits: 3950
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Heterogeneity Of Death Penalty And Life Imprisonment In India And Norway
It highlights the difference between constitutionally of capital punishment and life imprisonment in India and Norway. The massive difference between the two highlights that law and morality...Hits: 9141 -
Vaibhav Bhanudas Ubale v/s Maharashtra merely because the DNA report of a child born after a gang rape does not establish paternity of the accused, it does not mean that the accused can be released...Hits: 3728
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Vikram Vs Madhya Pradesh released a person who was apprehended for outraging the modesty of a woman on bail. The unique condition that was imposed for releasing him on bail was that he visits the...Hits: 5379
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Parminder Kaur @ P.P. Kaur @ Soni vs Punjab examination stage of Section 313 of the Cr. PC, then it is for the prosecution to negate such a defence plea. It was further reiterated by the top court...Hits: 6237
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Marenna @ Mareppa v. State that a victim under the SC/ST Atrocities Act includes not only the person who sustains injuries arising out of the crime but also his parents and family members. It is a...Hits: 4286
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Manu Sharma Finally Prematurely Released From Tihar Jail
serving life sentence for the sensational murder of model Jessica Lal in a city restaurant in 1999 is now out of jail after the Lieutenant Governor approved his premature release as well as 18...Hits: 4559 -
Criminalise Contractual Disputes For Imminent Settlement
S Ranjan Raju v/s. Odisha Section 439 of CrPC procedural reform of conducting mandatory preliminary inquiry before the registration of a FIR in contractual disputes and other civil cases urging...Hits: 5136 -
No Blank Cheque For Custodial Torture Or Custodial Death
most unfortunate death of a father Jayaraj and son Benicks allegedly due to severe custodial torture in a police station near Thoothukudi at Kovilpatti sub jail in Tuticorin in Tamil NaduHits: 3758 -
US Supreme Court Rules Against Absolute Immunity For President From Criminal Investigation
Donald J Trump v. Cyrus R Vance, District Attorney Of The County Of New York that a sitting President cannot evade criminal investigation. The instant case involves the first state criminal...Hits: 4942 -
Is Judiciary Not Capable Of Punishing Criminals?
No matter how hard we all who are in the legal profession may try to deny but it is an unpalatable fact that the image of judiciary has taken a severe beating in the eyes of the people in last few...Hits: 4970 -
Factors that your personal injury attorney will consider to build a strong case
A personal injury claim can arise from a wide variety of situations. Car accidents contribute to most personal injury cases, and there are other situations like medical malpractice, workplace...Hits: 735 -
Life Imprisonment: A substitute to death penalty?
Rationale behind justification of life imprisonment over death penalty .Hits: 5721 -
Girl Trafficking More Heinous Offence Than Drug Trafficking But Less Stringent: Orissa HC
Panchanan Padhi v/s Odisha that trafficking of girls is an offence more heinous than drug trafficking but ironically less stringent. How can our lawmakers still take this for granted? How can our...Hits: 20875 -
MP HC Impose Planting Of Saplings As A Bail Condition
Tilakraj Rajoriya v/s State of M.P granting bail to a person accused of assaulting a minor girl with intent to outrage her modesty has directed him to plant saplings along with tree guard, as one...Hits: 4352 -
Bhuwan Chandra Pandey v/s UOI the sole testimony of the victim of sexual abuse is sufficient to hold the perpetrator guilty of misconductHits: 4823
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Accused Is Entitled To Be Heard In A Revision Petition Against Dismissal Of Protest Petition: SC
Subhash Sahebrao Deshmukh vs Satish Atmaram Talekar has reiterated yet once again that an accused person has the right to be heard before a court hearing a revision petition against the order of...Hits: 10151 -
Marital Rape: Trivialising Consent
The article talks about Marital Rape and theories that are adopted to justify the decriminalisation of Martial RapeHits: 8886 -
Cognizance under code of criminal procedure.
Cognizance has not been defined specifically anywhere in the code of criminal procedure,1973.It means merely becoming aware of an offence by a magistrate with a view to proceed with initiation of...Hits: 6669 -
Babul Khan and Karnataka while taking a stern view of illegal migrants and foreigners overstaying in India has held in no uncertain terms that they should be kept in detention centersHits: 4486
