criminal law

The Haryana Police today arrested former Haryana Additional Advocate General Sanjeev Bansal on charges of delivering Rs 15 lakh cash at the residence of a Punjab and Haryana High Court judge. Bansal, who has been absconding for the past couple of days, was arrested by police after he surrendered at the Sector 11 police station early this morning. Bansal's munshi Parkash Ram, who allegedl..

Bombay HC directs Minister to surrender on August 28 8/22/2008 Bombay High Court directed former Maharashtra minister for transport and tribal development Dharmarao Atram to surrender before the forest department office at Pune on August 28 in the chinkara poaching case. Earlier, Atram’s advocate informed Justice V K Tahilramani that the former minister wants to withdraw the application and..

The Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Anubmani Ramadoss has said that the Health Ministry is lobbying with concerned agencies for removal of Section 377 of Indian Penal Code as it is impeding the Government’s AIDS control measures. Speaking after inaugurating a photo exhibition on AIDS Awareness at Rajiv Chowk Station of Delhi Metro here today, the Health Minister pointed out tha..

Anand, Khan convicted in BMW case New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Thursday convicted senior advocates - R.K. Anand and I.U. Khan - in the BMW expose case for obstructing administration of justice. "They are senior advocates and they did not tender either conditional or unconditional apology for their conduct in the BMW case," a Division Bench of Justices Manmohan Sarin and Madan B. Lokur sa..

SC not contemplating videography of proceedings: CJI Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan today said while a time may come when court proceedings are allowed to be video graphed, the Supreme Court was not contemplating any such measure at present. In a brief interaction with media persons on the sidelines of a function here, the Chief Justice said that to the rapid advancements in technol..

SC can fix tenure of life term in lieu of death penalty The Supreme Court has ruled that in order to minimize the use of death penalty, it has the power to fix tenure of life imprisonment while substituting it for death sentence. A bench comprising Justices B N Agrawal, G S Singhvi and Aftab Alam, while substituting life imprisonment for death sentence, has ruled that the appellant Murli Man..

The Supreme Court refused to entertain a petition by the Samajwadi Party MP from Maharashtra Abu Asim Azmi challenging the Maharashtra government notification not permitting a candidate having more than two children to contest elections for Municipal corporations and other civic bodies in the state. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Baklakrishnan, Justices P Sathasivam and J M Panchal re..

Mumbai based lawyer was today stabbed by his client outside the Small Causes court here following the latter's dissatisfaction with the way he was defended in the court. According to information received, Advocate Ajay Abada was looking after the civil case of accused Janarhan Atul Kochi, a resident of Worli in South Central Mumbai. Kochi has had a dispute with tenants of the chawl, where he..

Irked over the ranting of anti-Indian and pro-Pakistan slogans, advocates today beat up the accused terrorists and their lawyer on the court premises. In June, 2007, Naushad, Jallaluddin, Sheikh Jular Hussain, Mohd Ali Akbar Hussain, Azib-ur-rehman and Noor Islam were held with detonators, explosives and AK-47 rifle. The accused were to be produced at Additional Sessional Judge Shaktikan..

Madras High Court ruled that remand of an accused should not be ordered mechanically and sufficient grounds must exist for a magistrate to exercise the power of remand. Passing orders on a petition seeking to modify a bail order, Mr Justice R Regupathi said requisition for remand by the police should be accompanied by other case diary, whereupon the magistrate should satisfy himself as to ..

The Supreme Court in Aizaz & Others., Versus State of U.P., held that, `Common intention' implies pre-arranged plan and acting in concert pursuant to the pre-arranged plan. A pre-concert in the sense of a distinct previous plan is not necessary to be proved. The common intention to bring about a particular result may well develop on the spot as between a number of persons, with reference to the fa..

Chartered accountants to help CBI in economic offencesNew Delhi (PTI): With economic offences seeing an increase, the CBI has written to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to probe the growing number of white collar crimes."The CBI has already written to ICAI to provide expertise as and when required," says the new CBI Director Ashwani Kumar.Kumar, a 1973 ba..

The Supreme Court has ruled that in order to minimize the use of death penalty, it has the power to fix tenure of life imprisonment while substituting it for death sentence. A bench comprising Justices B N Agrawal, G S Singhvi and Aftab Alam, while substituting life imprisonment for death sentence, has ruled that the appellant Murli Manohar Mishra alias Swami Shraddhananda shall remain in jai..

The Goa Children's Court on Monday disallowed the petition filed against Fiona Mackeown, mother of British teenager Scarlett Keeling, by a Goa-based NGO for neglecting her daughter. The court refused to direct the police to investigate the role of Fiona Mackeown in the death of her daughter British teenager Scarlett Keeling. The judge mentioned that as per Section 20 of the Child..

The Supreme Court has reversed the acquittal of six persons convicted by a trial court in Uttar Pradesh for a triple murder that occurred 30 years ago. A bench of Justices R V Raveendran and P Sathasivam, however, reduced the life imprisonment imposed by the trial court to 10 years RI on the ground that the offence fell under Section 304 Part II (culpable homicide not amounting to mur..