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Harbouring Terrorists Is A Serious Offence Under UAPA: Delhi HC
An ordinary criminal like a dacoit or rapist or robber or murderer or any other ordinary criminal never goes to Pakistan or any other foreign country for getting training on how to commit dacoity...Hits: 15680 -
Prajna Prakash Nayak vs Odisha that a Magistrate can order an investigation against a public servant only after considering his defence and obtaining a report from his superior officer, as mandated...Hits: 13451
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SC Rightly Quashes Rape Case In Consensual Relationship
Manish Yadav v/s Uttar Pradesh that while the case involved a breach of promise, it did not amount to an inherently false promise of marriage. It must be disclosed here that the man had developed a...Hits: 13295 -
Strict Scrutiny Of FIR Required Registered Under Stringent Laws: SC
Jay Kishan vs Uttar Pradesh that strict scrutiny of the FIR is required under stringent laws like the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters Act to prevent its misuse in property or financial disputes.Hits: 16643 -
Mobile Forensics And Its Importance In The Legal FIeld
Importance of the Mobile Forensics In the Indian Legal SystemHits: 21594 -
Directorate Of Enforcement vs Subhash Sharma that a Court must release an accused on bail if their fundamental rights under Articles 21 and 22 of the Constitution have been violated during or after...Hits: 13400
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Arrested Person Must Get Adequate Time To Consult Lawyer Before Remand: Delhi HC
Marfing Tamang @ Maaina Tamang v.Delhi that arrested persons must be given the grounds for arrest immediately upon arrest and that they must be given adequate time to consult their lawyer before...Hits: 16660 -
Pawan Kharbanda v/s Punjab that Section 175(3) of BNSS has introduced additional safeguards ensuring that before directing the registration of an FIR, the Magistrate is required to conduct such...Hits: 16733
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Vihaan Kumar vs Haryana that informing an arrested individual of the grounds for their arrest is a fundamental right under Article 22(1) of the Constitution.Hits: 15601
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On Its Own Motion Vs Roop Darshan Pandey that: The habit of releasing pleadings and documents to the media even before Courts have had the opportunity to consider the same is also not acceptable...Hits: 14511
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Trial Courts Rarely Muster Courage To Grant Bail, Expect High Courts To Act Judiciously: SC
Maulvi Syed Shad Kazmi @ Mohd Shad vs Uttar Pradesh that: We can understand that the trial court declined bail as trial courts seldom muster the courage of granting bail, be it any offence.Hits: 15605 -
Extra Judicial Confession Should Be Trustworthy To Establish Guilt: SC
Sadashiv Dhondiram Patil v/s Maharashtra that an extra-judicial confession should be found to be true and trustworthy before it is relied upon by the court to hold the accused guilty in a criminal...Hits: 18845 -
Suleman Samad vs State of NCT of Delhi that the Trial Courts must promptly pass orders and must not mechanically adjourn bail applications moved in cases covered by Section 479Hits: 20010
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Narendra Kumar Soni vs Rajasthan that the right of an accused to a free and fair probe/trial under Article 21 in seeking call/tower location details under Section 91 CrPCHits: 12733
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Dalip Kumar @ Dalli vs Uttaranchal that bodily injuries are not necessary to prove sexual assault.Hits: 11614
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Nowadays No Assumption That Rape Victims Always Tell The Full Truth: Allahabad HC
Abhishek Bhardwaj v/s UP that while the statement of the prosecutrix must be given primary consideration in rape cases, it cannot be presumed that such statements are always entirely truthful.Hits: 15612 -
Joginder Singh @ Joginder Rana vs National Investigation Agency that long incarceration in itself cannot lead to an accused being released on bail where the case involves transnational terrorism...Hits: 14515
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Tripura HC Sets Aside Conviction Under Section 354 Of IPC Citing Lack Of Evidence
Sri Bibhishan Ghosh vs Tripura that the ingredients of the offence of using ‘criminal force or assault’ upon the victim could not be established by the prosecution.Hits: 16855 -
J&K&L HC Very Rightly Quashes Preventive Detention Of Advocate Mian Muzaffar
Mian Muzaffar V/s UT of Jammu and Kashmir quashed the preventive detention of Advocate Mian Muzaffar who was detained under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978Hits: 16750 -
R.Varalakshmi vs The Government of Tamil Nadu taken very serious note of the deplorable language that has been used in the FIR with the tone of victim blamingHits: 16783
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Cuttack vs Odisha firmly ordered the State Government of Odisha and the State police authorities to install CCTV cameras in all police stations as well as police outposts across the State by the...Hits: 15602
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Shyamchand Mondal vs West Bengal the Trial Court to proceed expeditiously in a POCSO case and observed that bail is a rule and jail is an exception.Hits: 13529
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Ensure Trials Aren’t Delayed Due To Non-Production Of Accused: SC
Siddhant @ Sidharth Balu Taktode vs Maharashtra granted bail under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 (MCOCA) citing prolonged incarceration and delay in trial due to the failureHits: 12825 -
Compromise Not a Basis to Quash FIR in Serious POCSO Act Offence: Kerala High Court
Akhil Mohanan vs Kerala that serious offences under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act) cannot be quashed on the basis of a compromise.Hits: 15713 -
SC: High Courts Cannot Direct Trial Courts To Write Bail Orders In A Specific Manner
Ayub Khan vs Rajasthan that Constitutional Courts (High Courts and Supreme Court) do not have the authority to direct Trial Courts to adopt a specific format or manner for writing orders in bail...Hits: 14559 -
Neema Sanjay Rangari vs Maharashtra that there is no justification for slapping an MP belonging to a Scheduled Caste in public view and uttering derogatory words.Hits: 14560
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Suspecting Citizen After Honourable Acquittal Militates Rule Of Law: Allahabad HC
Pradeep Kumar vs UP has very rightly directed the State Government to issue an appointment order for the petitioner who was honourably acquitted of being an alleged spy for an enemy nation as an...Hits: 16785 -
SC Issues Guidelines On Death Penalty Executions And Mercy Petitions To Avoid Delay In Process
Maharashtra vs Pradeep Yashwant that after an order of rejection of mercy petitions by the President or Governor is communicated to a death row convict, the sword of Damocles cannot be kept hanging...Hits: 17973 -
Arrest Must Be Rational, Fair And Based On Admissible Evidence: MP HC
Asif Hanif Thara vs Enforcement Directorate that: The arrest should be rational, fair and as per law and shall not be merely based upon guilt of accused established from inadmissible evidence....Hits: 10054 -
Sher Singh vs Punjab refused to grant bail to a man who is accused of illicit trafficking of 50 grams of heroin underscoring that where 50 grams of heroin have been seized from the petitionerHits: 12768
