criminal law

Madras HC orders notice to policemen in Puducherry violent incident 1/5/2009 Madras High Court ordered issuance of notice to 64 policemen, including some Home Guards, allegedly involved in the violent incident on the Puducherry Court premises on December 19 last year. While ordering notice, the Division Bench comprising Ms Justice Praba Sridevan and Mr Justice K Chandru directed the autho..

SC asks school to bear cost in principal's sexual harrasment case 1/5/2009 The Supreme Court has imposed a cost of Rs 50,000 on the Management of General B C Joshi Army Public School, Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand for not following the Court’s guidelines regarding sexual harassment of women at workplace. A bench comprising Justices S B Sinha and Cyriac Joseph also directed the Uttarakhand High..

SC rejects MP HC order on less punishment of rapist 1/2/2009 The Supreme Court has disapproved of the tendency to impose less than minimum sentence prescribed for a serious offence such as rape, as the crime inflicts not only physical or mental scars but also brings a sense of shame upon the victim. A bench comprising Justices S B Sinha and Cyriac Joseph, while setting aside the judgement..

Actor Held For Trying To Extort Money 3 Jan 2009, 1932 hrs IST, IANS NEW DELHI: A former TV and Bollywood actor and his aide were arrested in the capital for allegedly making threatening calls posing as underworld don Chhotta Shakeel's henchman to extort money from a Delhi based businessman, the police said on Saturday. Aslam Ansari, 31, and Phool Singh, 25, were demanding R..

Man Gets Life Term For Killing Nine-Yr-Old Son 3 Jan 2009, 0503 hrs IST, TNN THANE: Vashi resident Pralhad Kharadkar (35) would spend the rest of his life in jail for killing his nine-year-old son, Yatish, whom he had stoned to death in June 2006 and left the lifeless body along the Koparkhairne creek. As Thane additional sessions judge A C Bacchav prepared to award the sen..

Court Gives Vijit 5 Days To File Reply 3 Jan 2009, 0349 hrs IST, TNN JAIPUR: The session court on Friday granted hit-and-run case accused Vijit Singh five days' time to reply to the bail cancellation application filed by the police. Vijit, the step-grandson of Rajamata Gayatri Devi, was arrested after his car hit a group of students killing one in December. He was soon released on..

CBI To Hand Over Scarlett's Organs 3 Jan 2009, 1559 hrs IST, PTI PANAJI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has agreed to hand over vital organs of British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling, which were removed during autopsy in India, her lawyer said. "CBI has agreed to hand over the organs. We are now working out modalities how to send the organs to UK," Vikram Varma, wh..

Judges Can Lower The Sentence Only In Exceptional Cases: Ruling New Delhi: The Supreme Court has disapproved the wide discretion exercised by higher court judges in reducing the sentence imposed by trial courts, sometimes even going below the minimum provided in the law enacted by Parliament. Cautioning the judges against such indiscretion, the apex court in a judgment last week said: “If..

Three Youths Get Life Sentence For Murder 2 Jan 2009, 0532 hrs IST, TNN PUNE: Sessions judge B D Kapadnis on Monday sentenced three youths to life imprisonment for murdering a footwear shop owner in a hotel in Swargate in 2005. The convicts are Kailash Sarole (22), Prakash alias Balya Bansode (21) and Sunny alias Akash Belkhande (19), all residents of Mangalwar Peth. The vi..

Indian jailed for killing employer 1 Jan 2009, 1100 hrs IST, IANS JOHOR BARU: An Indian youth working as a barber here has been jailed for killing his Malaysian employer, also an ethnic Indian, who allegedly used to sexually abuse him. Nagarajan Vaithilingam, 22, was sentenced to 12 years in jail, The New Straits Times said on Thursday. Two of his compatriots who work at the sam..

'Serial killer' Ravindra Kantrole sentenced to life imprisonment 1 Jan 2009, 1743 hrs IST, PTI MUMBAI: ’Serial killer' Ravindra Kantrole, also known as 'Beer Man', was today sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court here in the last of the three murder cases registered against him. Kantrole, who was arrested in January last year, had been charged with the murder of three of..

Sister Abhaya murder: Kerala HC grants bail to accused KOCHI: Imposing strict conditions, the Kerala High Court on Thursday granted bail to three accused— two Christian priests and a nun—in the Sister Abhaya murder case. Father Thomas Kottur, Father Jose Puthrikayil and Sister Sephi were directed by Justice K Hema to furnish a bail bond of Rs one lakh each and two solvent sureties fo..

SC: A person can't be summoned as accused on strong suspicion 12/31/2008 The Supreme Court has ruled that a person cannot be summoned as an accused merely on the basis of strong suspicion.A bench comprising Justices S B Sinha and Cyriac Joseph allowed the appeal of appellants, Lal Suraj alias Suraj Singh and Arbind Singh, who were summoned by the trial court as accused in a murder case under..

KONERU'S GRANDSON SENDS LEGAL NOTICE TO AYESH'S MOTHER 31 Dec 2008, 0408 hrs IST, TNN VIJAYAWADA: Much in news for his `role' in the Ayesha Meera murder case, the grandson of municipal administration minister Koneru Ranga Rao, Koneru Satish, has sent a legal notice to Ayesha's mother Shamshad Begum, demanding an open apology and withdrawl of her statements linking him to the killin..

SURYANARAYANA'S BAIL PLEA REJECTED 31 Dec 2008, 0407 hrs IST, TNN VIJAYAWADA: Lord Ayyappa hasn't yet shown His ‘karuna' on ‘big fish' V Suryanarayana, who was keen to go to Sabarimala as part of fulfilling his Ayyappa deeksha, as the ACB special court in Vijayawada once again turned down the tainted fisheries department executive engineer's bail plea on Tuesday, citing that ther..