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Criminal Law News


Advocates can’t be implicated for discharging duty: Court

   19 July 2009 at 10:54

The legal profession would be in peril if professionals were implicated in criminal cases for discharging their duty, the Madras High Court said on Thursday.Justice M. Jeyapaul was allowing petitions by M.V. Chandran and E. Kumar, both advocates, who ..

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Padamsinh’s bail plea rejected

   19 July 2009 at 10:50

A Sessions Court in Alibaug, Raigad district, on Saturday rejected the plea for grant of bail to Nationalist Congress Party MP Padamsinh Patil. The Osmanabad MP was accused of ordering the killing of Congress leader Pawanraje Nimbalkar in a case of ..

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HC acquits man facing FERA charges after 17 years

   19 July 2009 at 10:46

A Delhi High Court has acquitted a man facing Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA) violation charge for illegally possessing foreign currencies, nearly two decades after he was booked. Allowing Prabhat Kumar Srivastava's petition, which challenged ..

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Political murders: apex court rejects State plea

   18 July 2009 at 18:20

The Supreme Court on Friday put a lid on the controversy triggered by the Kerala High Court’s adverse observation on the law and order situation and the police investigations vis-a-vis political murders in the State, saying it was only ..

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Delhi: Client seeks cancellation of lawyer's bail

   18 July 2009 at 10:53

A lawyer bailed out two weeks ago after 57 months in jail under trial for swindling a client faced cancellation of the bail.B N Singhvi was granted bail by Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate A K Pandey after having been denied it repeatedly ov ..

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Ajmal Amir Kasab Trial: Court wants to complete trial by diw

   17 July 2009 at 18:35

The designated court Judge M L Tahilyani said he wanted to complete the 26/11 terror attacks trial by Diwali this year.Judge Tahilyani made this assertion after Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam prayed for a week-long leave.Mr Nikam had requeste ..

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Goa police refuses to hand over bodies of Russians

   17 July 2009 at 17:56

Goa police on Friday refused to hand over the bodies of two Russian teenagers, killed by unidentified assailants on a beach in November 2007, to Consul General of Russia in Mumbai. "We cannot hand over the bodies to the Consulate without the con ..

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Rita Bahuguna's house ransacked: Azhar courts arrest, releas

   17 July 2009 at 17:54

Congress MP Mohammad Azharduddin on Friday courted arrest along with his supporters here protesting against the ransacking of UPCC chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi's residence in Lucknow. Azharuddin, after offering Friday's namaz at the Jama Masjid here th ..

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Shopian case: SC to hear plea of police officers on Monday

   17 July 2009 at 17:51

Senior police officers held in connection with the alleged rape and murder of two women in Shopian on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking stay of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court order directing their arrest and collection of blood samples for pre ..

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Shiney Ahuja's judicial custody extended till July 30

   17 July 2009 at 17:32

A local court extended the judicial custody of actor Shiney Ahuja, accused of raping his maid, till July 30. Though the defamed actor’s lawyer Shrikant Shivade put his argument forward seeking bail, the court gave in to the prosecution’s ..

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