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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: 15385
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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: 13327
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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: 12690 -
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: 15558 -
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: 14441 -
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: 14459
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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: 16691 -
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: 17840 -
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: 9939 -
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: 12641
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Bail Cannot Be Denied When Evidence Lacks Cogency: Allahabad High Court in Dowry Death Case
Rupesh Kushwaha has granted bail to Rupesh Kushwaha in a dowry death case.Hits: 16709 -
Delivering Child In Jail Affects Mother And Child: Bombay HC
While displaying compassion, humanity, magnanimity and so also taking into account a very holistic view of the deleterious impact of a pregnant woman delivering child in jailHits: 9896 -
Police Cannot Claim Exemption Saying Assault Of Accused Is Part Of Official Duty: Kerala HC
Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab nor with rapists or gang rapists or dacoits or murderers which is definitely a matter of profound concern was witnessed by all as news channels flashedHits: 16702 -
Chandini Singh v/s UP To underscore the cruelty of making a heavily pregnant woman sit at a police station for hours without justification, particularly when no male member was present at her...Hits: 12917
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Bombay HC Quashes Rape Case Against Lawyer Terming It As Consensual Relationship Gone Sour
Tapan Anant Thatte vs Maharashtra has quashed a case registered against a Mumbai-based lawyer for rape, criminal intimidation and cheating observing that the allegations stemmed from a personal...Hits: 15651 -
Magistrates Must Ensure That Guilty Pleas Are Voluntary And Well-Advised: Madras HC
Sathish And Anandh Vs Food Safety Officer, Karur that the guilty pleas by accused individuals are informed, voluntary and supported by adequate legal counsel.Hits: 9909 -
Inadmissible Police Confessions in Depositions May Influence Trial Courts
Randeep Singh @ Rana vs Haryana that there is every possibility that the Trial Courts may get influenced if inadmissible confessions made by an accused to a police officer are made part of the...Hits: 11757 -
Demolition Of House Of Accused Or Criminal Is Illegal And Unconstitutional
Re: Directions in the Matter of Demolition of Structures that the executive cannot demolish the houses/properties of persons only on the ground that they are accused or convicted in a crime.Hits: 9922 -
Police, Prosecutors Must Not Frame Innocent By Presenting Selective Evidence: HP HC
State of HP vs Chohan Singh a most stinging rebuke directed the State government and so also its police department to ensure that the investigating officers (IOs) and prosecutors do not present...Hits: 14578 -
Jitendra Pratap Singh vs UP that since the Code of Criminal Procedure (Uttar Pradesh Amendment) Act 2018 bars the grant of anticipatory bail in cases where the offence is punishable by a death...Hits: 14546
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Balaji Puyad vs Maharashtra that requiring a prisoner to wait 1.5 years for successive parole, especially in case of emergency, is arbitrary.Hits: 16753
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S. Kalavathi Vs. State Director General of Police and Director General of Prisons and Correctional Service to conduct frequent inspections to ensure that prisoners are not engaged or employed by...Hits: 14529
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Twin Test For Bail Under Section 45 PMLA Not A Tool To Indefinitely Jail Accused: Delhi HC
Pankaj Kumar Tiwari vs Enforcement Directorate that the stringent twin tests for the grant of bail under Section 45 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) cannot be invoked as a...Hits: 15718 -
P.Ananda Kumar vs The Director General of Police (Prison) that was pronounced as recently as on 15.10.2024 has been forthright in directing the Tamil Nadu Prison Department and the State police to...Hits: 12882
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Thakan @ Nitin Bhausaheb Alhat vs Maharashtra that it is most painful to stay in the overcrowded jails in India. This was held so while granting bail to a man who had been ‘wrongly’ made an accused.Hits: 13466
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Hyderabad’s Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital after he died of cardiac arrest. His wife Vasantha Kumari disclosed that he had been suffering from an infectionHits: 13463
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Vishal Ramesh Khatwani vs Karnataka that the High Court deemed it entirely fit to allow the revision petition and issued a plethora of most commendable directions for Magistrates that have to be...Hits: 17914
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Amardeep Singh Bedi vs UOI that the mere pendency of a criminal case does not automatically disqualify an individual from exercising their right to seek long-term opportunities abroad.Hits: 11222
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SC Puts Full Stop On Caste Based Discrimination In Jails
Sukanya Shantha vs UOI that caste-based discrimination in prisons would not be tolerated has sent out a clarion call to put a full stop and end caste based discrimination that has been going on...Hits: 17769 -
Court Can't Convict One, Acquit Another On Similar, Identical Evidence: SC
Yogarani Vs State By The Inspector Of Police that the court cannot convict one accused and so also acquit the other when there is similar or identical evidence pitted against the two accused persons.Hits: 14583
