criminal law

3 senior UP Govt officials chargesheeted in Recruitment Scam case The CBI filed a charge sheet against three senior government officials of Uttar Pradesh, including state Home Secretary Mahesh Kr Gupta, for their alleged involvement in the 1998 recruitment scam in the Department of Information and Public Relations. The charge sheet against Mahesh Kr Gupta, presently Home Secretary, Prabhat ..

The Supreme Court on Wednesday cancelled the bail of Sushil and Gopal Ansal, who were sentenced to two years of imprisonment by the trial court in the Uphaar fire tragedy, which claimed 59 lives. The apex court also cancelled the bail granted to Ajit Chowdhary and Nirmal Chopra, managers of the theatre, who were awarded seven years of imprisonment. The order was pronounced by a Bench compris..

The Supreme Court asked the Uttar Pradesh government to inform the court within two weeks whether it is agreeable to a CBI inquiry in the Rs 7 crore Ghaziabad district court GPF scam in which 36 judges, including a sitting Supreme Court judge, have been named as beneficiaries. A bench, comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat, V S Sirpurkar and G S Singhvi, decided to seek the response of the sta..

The Supreme Court granted bail to stock broker Ketan Parekh and others on Monday in the Canfina Mutual Fund scam case. Parekh was held guilty in the case related to the 1992 stock scam, in which Canbank Financial Services was duped of over Rs 47 crore. Justice V M Kanade, heading the special court for trial of offences relating to transactions under the Securities Act, held them guil..

The Supreme Court has said that courts do not have any inherent powers to review their own order or judgement, except for the purpose of correcting clerical or arithmetical errors. Quoting Section 362 of the CrPC, the apex court said the procedural code “expressly provides that no court which has signed its judgement or final order disposing of a case, shall alter or review the same except to cor..

In a ruling that upholds the case for special laws to deal with terrorism and other serious crimes, the Supreme Court has restored the power of the Maharashtra police to tap the phones of terror suspects as well as suspected members of organised crime syndicates. These intercepts can be used as evidence in trial courts, it added. The verdict is a shot in the arm for Maharashtra police, askin..

Disturbed by the recent spate in rape-cum-murders of minors and determined to set a deterrent example, the Supreme Court on Friday awarded death penalty on a teacher, himself a father of three, for raping and murdering a 5th standard girl. Ironically, the verdict came on Teachers’ day. Absence of an eye-witness or direct evidence of the depraved act of the teacher did not deter a Bench compr..

Sanjeev Nanda, grandson of former Naval Chief S M Nanda, was on Friday sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment by a Delhi court for mowing down six persons, including three policemen, with his BMW car in 1999. It sentenced co-convict and businessman Rajeev Gupta to one year rigorous imprisonment for destruction of evidence. His two employees -- Bhola Nath and Shyam Singh -- w..

New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) Nine years after Sanjeev Nanda, son of arms dealer Suresh Nanda, mowed down six people, including three policemen, while drunk and driving his BMW car, a court here Tuesday held him guilty and said the entire criminal justice and trial had been hijacked by the rich and influential. Nanda was returning from a party in Gurgaon, the upcoming suburb of the national capital, ..

Sanjeev Nanda held guilty in the BMW hit-and-run case A Delhi court on Tuesday convicted Sanjeev Nanda for mowing down six persons in BMW hit-and -run case, meanwhile the court also held three others guilty, including businessman Rajeev Gupta, for destruction of evidence. However, Co-accused Manik Kapoor has been acquitted in the case. The quantum of punishment will be prononced b..

SC defines parameters for claiming benefits under Section 84 In a ruling with wide ramifications, the Supreme Court has held that the police must get an accused claiming insanity under Section 84 of the Indian Penal Code medically examined before granting any immunity. Section 84, IPC states that nothing is an offence done by a person who at the time of doing it, by reason of unsoundness of m..

Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan has proposed a judicial inquiry by three High Court Judges Committee to look into the scandal, which has rocked the Punjab and Haryana High Court, with the name of its sitting Judge cropping up in the scandal. On August 13, Justice Nirmaljit Kaur reported the matter to State High Court Chief Justice Tirath Singh Thakur and local police about an attempt ..

NEWS RELETED TO RECENT CHENNAI HIGH COURT JUGDMENT: CHENNAI: Six magistrates, four in Chennai and one each in Coimbatore and Paramakudi, who had entertained complaints which are purely civil in nature from banks and financial institutions, are in trouble. Justice R Regupathy on Thursday suggested departmental action against the six magistrates while passing further orders on two crimi..

HC: Don't refer civil nature for police investigation �Transfer cases of civil disputes to High Court� K.T.Sangameswaran CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Thursday directed the Registry to withdraw cases all over the State involving disputes of civil nature in which magistrates have ordered police investigation, call for the records and transfer them to the High Cou..

The High court of Madras closed a Habeas Corpus petition alleging that several persons belonging to a family in Erode district had been abducted by henchmen of the former handlooms minister N.K.K.P.Raja. Earlier, the police had told to the court that Raja was not involved in the offence, even though the abduction was a fact. A division bench of the Honorable High Court, comprising Justi..