criminal law

Chennai: In a new development to the human trafficking case filed against P R Sivakumar, managing director (overseas), Saravana Bhavan hotel, the airport police on Tuesday arrested him for sending one of his employees, Ragu Chandran, to the US in 2005 with the help of fake travel documents. Sivakumar was produced before the magistrate’s court in Alandur but, based on the bail he had got fro..

Amidst criticism over subjecting accused persons to Narco Analysis Test, the Delhi High court has upheld its validity stating that the test is essential in view of growing terrorism related cases and heinous crimes. "The use of Narco Analysis is of particular relevance in the context of terrorism related cases, conspiracy to commit murder and other serious offences where the investigating age..

New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court has held that high courts should not quash criminal proceedings against accused unless the allegations, even if taken on face value, disclose no cognisable offence. Citing a number of earlier judicial rulings, a bench of Justices S B Sinha and Aftab Alam said, if the allegations made in the FIR disclose commission of an offence, the court shall not go beyond t..

Sensitisation of officials must to curb human trafficking: CJI New Delhi, Nov 15 (PTI) The fight against Human trafficking crimes would require sensitisation of law enforcement officials and other stakeholders, the Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan said today, pressing for an intensified action to curb the social menace. "We need sensitive police officers, prosecutors and magistra..

New Delhi: Expressing serious concern over the increasing incidents of encounter deaths in the country, the Supreme Court has said it proposed to frame guidelines to be followed by all the States and Union territories whenever encounter deaths take place. A Bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice H.S. Bedi issued notice to the Centre, all States and Union territories seeking their respons..

In an important judgment, the Allahabad High Court has said that application under Section 156(3) of Cr.P.C. could not be rejected on the ground that the sanction of appropriate Government or Authority would be required at the time of taking cognizance. Any person can file application for lodging FIR against any Government Employee. For this no sanction is required from the Government. The Cour..

VIGILANCE CASE AGAINST KERALA CRICKET ASSOCIATION THRISSUR: In a criminal miscellaneous petition filed by Balaji Iyyengar a former Kerala junior Cricketer and two others the vigilance special judge has ordered investigation u/s 156(3) Cr.P.C against the Secretary, President, Treasurer of KCA and 90 others. There are 46 allegations in the petition. It spreads all over Kerala including the India ..

Chief Justice of India Justice K G Balakrishnan on Wednesday expressed concern over the large number of pending cheque bounce cases in the Capital and hoped that the concept of evening courts would help address the problem. "It is disappointing to have a pendency of over 5.5 lakh such cases in Delhi alone. It is a big problem for magistracy," Justice Balakrishnan said, while inaugurating even..

The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed initiation of criminal proceedings against Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President Sashank Manohar, former Board President Sharad Pawar and four top officials for filing false affidavits in the Jagmohan Dalmiya expulsion case. Justice Nadira Pathariya passed the order eight months after Dalmiya, a former BCCI president, moved a case..

SC: Convicting a person on the basis of belated FIR is dangerous In a significant ruling, the Supreme court has held that it is unsafe to convict a person on the basis of an FIR lodged belatedly without explaining the delay. A bench comprising Justices C K Thakker and D K Jain upheld the judgement of the Andhra Pradesh High Court dated April 12, 2006, acquitting her husband in a case of dowr..

Soft drink giant, Coca Cola, received a setback on Monday with the Supreme Court dismissing a petition filed by the company's local arm challenging criminal proceedings initiated against it by the Rajasthan Government in an alleged "adulteration case." A bench of Justices B N Aggrawal and G S Singhvi also expressed anger over the fact that despite registration of a criminal case against Hindu..

The Supreme Court on Monday asked the CBI not to arrest industrialist Ashok Todi till 17th November in connection with the Rizwanur Rehman murder case in which a trial court has issued a non-bailable warrant against him. A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan passed the order for not arresting Todi as it would hear on next Monday his petition challenging issuance of NBW by a trial ..

A special tribunal headed by a Delhi High Court judge on Monday upheld the Centre's notification for extending the ban on LTTE for another two years. The notification extending the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, declaring it as an unlawful association, was issued by the Union Home Ministry on 15th May. Justice Vikramjeet Sen, who was heading the special tribunal constituted u..

A court in Nashik has ordered scientific tests on a serving army officer, who was arrested in connection with Malegaon blasts, after Maharashtra police charged him with transferring huge amount of money through illegal channel to one of the accused in the case. Chief Judicial Magistrate K D Boche allowed the Anti-Terrorist Squad to conduct polygraph, brain mapping and narco analysis of Lt Col..

SC: Paramount duty of court is to do justice The Supreme Court has held that the paramount duty of court is to prevent the miscarriage of justice and an appellate court has the power of reviewing the entire evidence to do justice. A bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and Mukundakam Sharma upheld the Rajasthan High Court judgement directing acquittal of a husband, who was sentenced to l..