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Christopher Raj Vs K Vijayakumar the Supreme Court has observed that the High Court in a criminal appeal cannot reverse the acquittal without affording any opportunity of hearing to the accused or...Hits: 7846
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Basic Principles of Victims of Crime with including the challenges and current scenario in India
The Declaration of Basic Principles for Justice of Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power including the current situation of victims of crime at each stage of the criminal process in India along with...Hits: 73175 -
UAPA: SC Dismisses PFI Leader's Plea Seeking Discharge In RSS Worker Murder Case
Asim Shariff Vs National Investigation Agency has dismissed an appeal filed by a Popular Front of India leader Asim Shariff accused in the murder of a RSS worker Rudresh in Karnataka.Hits: 77025 -
Absolute Liability In Indian Context
This article analyses the doctrine of absolute liability and its transitional growth from common law to the contemporary times. the article also discusses landmark judgements concerning absolute...Hits: 22328 -
How To Record The Evidence of Deaf And Dumb Rape Victim - Bombay High Court
Hanumant v/s Maharashtra - how to record the evidence of deaf and dumb rape victim. It has also remanded the rape case to the Trial Court on the ground that evidence of deaf and dumb victim was...Hits: 11041 -
If we don’t get justice as per rule of law we shall be committing suicide
If we don’t get justice as per rule of law we shall be committing suicide and we have communicated this to President, CJI and individually all judges of SCHits: 17222 -
Magistrate Cannot Suo Motu Direct Further Investigation After Discharging The Accused: SC
Bikash Ranjan Rout v. State that a Magistrate has no jurisdiction to suo motu pass an order for further investigation/reinvestigation after he discharges the accused.Hits: 49862 -
Sex After Obtaining Consent By False Promise To Marry Is Rape: SC
Anurag Soni v. State of Chhattisgarh has reiterated that the consent for sexual intercourse obtained by a person by giving false promise of marriage would not excuse him from rape charges.Hits: 14037 -
Swami Asimanand and others Acquitted In Samjauta Blasts Case For Want of Credible And Admissible EvidenceHits: 5635
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Adding Additional Accused To Invoke Section 319 CrPC Stronger Evidence Than Mere Probability of Complicity of A Person Required: SC stated in Sugreev Kumar v. State of PunjabHits: 13207
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SC Sets Aside Life Ban Imposed on Cricketer Sreesanth
S. Sreesanth v. The Board of Control For Cricket In India the Supreme Court set aside a life ban imposed on former Indian cricketer S Sreesanth in connection with the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal...Hits: 11345 -
Death Sentence Can Be Imposed Only When Life Imprisonment Appears To Be An Altogether Inappropriate Punishment: SCHits: 8255
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Uncivilized And Heartless Crime: SC Enhances Compensation To Acid Attack Victim
Himachal Pradesh v Vijay Kumar Supreme court held about acid attack crime that a crime of this nature does not deserve any kind of clemency.Hits: 7884 -
Even Poem Can Help Save A Death Convict From Gallows
Dnyaneshwar Suresh Borkar v Maharashtra Even poem can help save a death convict from gallows. The Apex Court has in this latest, landmark and laudable judgment commuted the death penalty of a...Hits: 6577 -
Gagan Kumar v Punjab it is a mandatory legal requirement for Magistrate to specify whether sentences awarded to an accused convicted for two or more offences, would run concurrently or consecutively.Hits: 11383
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Inability To Establish Motive In A Case Of Circumstantial Evidence Not Always Fatal: SC
Sukhpal Singh v Punjab that the inability of the prosecution to establish motive in a case of circumstantial evidence is not always fatal to the prosecution case. Importance of motive in...Hits: 11030 -
Successive Applications For Recalling Witnesses Should Not Be Encouraged
Swapan Kumar Chatterjee v CBI permitting the application filed by the prosecution for summoning a hand writing expert in a corruption case of which the trial had started in 1985. On expected lines,...Hits: 9164 -
Death Sentence Only When The Alternative Option Is Unquestionably Foreclosed
Raju Jagdish Paswan v. Maharashtra has commuted the death penalty of a man accused of rape and murder of a nine year old girl and sentenced him to 30 years imprisonment without remission.Hits: 5514 -
Nand Kishore v Madhya Pradesh has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence which was earlier confirmed by the Madhya Pradesh High Court of a convicted for the rape and murder of an...Hits: 18398
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Rajesh v State of Haryana conviction under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code (Abetment of Suicide) is not sustainable on the allegation of harassment without there being any positive action...Hits: 28154
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Dr Dhruvaram Murlidhar Sonar v Maharashtra made it amply clear that if a person had not made the promise to marry with the sole intention to seduce a woman to indulge in sexual acts, such an act...Hits: 6936
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Offences Under Section 307 IPC Can't Be Quashed On The Basis of Settlement Between Parties
Madhya Pradesh v Kalyan Singh has finally set all doubts to rest on the nagging question of whether offences under Section 307 of IPC can be quashed on the basis of settlement between parties.Hits: 18963 -
Suspicion, Howsoever Grave, Can't Substitute Proof In Criminal Trial
Devi Lal v State of Rajasthan the Supreme Court has dispelled all misconceived notions about suspicion and reiterated that,Hits: 6614 -
Sohrabuddin Case A Pre-Meditated Theory To Implicate Political Leaders: CBI Court
It has to be said right at the outset that in a major reprieve for all the political leaders accused of being involved in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case, in CBI, Mumbai vs Dahyaji Goharji VanzaraHits: 4183 -
Person Once Discharged Can Also Be Added As Accused U/S 319 CrPC Based On New Materials
Deepak v State of Madhya Pradesh in which has served to clarify the entire legal position under Section 319 CrPC, upheld a trial court order under Section 319 of the CrPc summoning accused who were...Hits: 13142 -
Even Heinous, Brutal Crimes May Not Be Rarest of Rare
Sukhlal v The State of Madhya Pradesh 'life imprisonment is the rule and death penalty is the exception' has laid down clearly that even when a crime is heinous or brutal, it may not still fall...Hits: 6104 -
Supreme Court Observations On Criminals And Death Penalty
Rajendra Pralhadrao Wasnik v State of Maharashtra held that criminals are also entitled to life of dignity and probability of reformation/rehabilitation to be seriously and earnestly considered...Hits: 6651 -
1984 Anti-Sikh Riots: Delhi HC Awards Life Term To Congress Leader Sajjan Kumar
It has been a long and gruelling wait of 34 long years for the survivors of 1984 anti-Sikh riots to finally see one big leader Sajjan Kumar being sentenced to life term by Delhi High CourtHits: 5950 -
Executive Magistrate Cannot Direct Police To Register FIR: SC
Naman Singh alias Naman Pratap Singh and another vs. UP, Supreme Court held a reading of the FIR reveals that the police has registered the F.I.R on directions of the Sub-Divisional Magistrate...Hits: 8972 -
1984 Anti Sikh Riots Delhi High Court Upholds Conviction And Punishment
Shambhir & Ors v State upholding the conviction and punishment of over 80 rioters has brought some solace to all those affected people who lost their near and dear ones in the ghastly 1984...Hits: 6537
