criminal law

A Delhi Court issued notice to the CBI director seeking his response as to why underworld don Abu Salem was extradited instead of being deported here from Portugal in 2005 to face trial in criminal cases including the 1992 Mumbai blasts case. "Issue notice to the CBI Director for August 5 for apprising the court about extradition of Abu Salem," Additional Session Judge Ravinder Kaur sai..

Gulbarga, Jul 5 Ten Members of SC, ST and Unemployed Engineers Association were arrested for throwing pamphlets on Chief Justice of India Justice K G Balakrishnan during a function organised for inauguration of the Karnataka High Court Circuit Bench here today. Police said the agitators, demanding filling up of block log vacancies, threw the pamphlets from the first floor of the ne..

HC rejects bail application of BSP MP Umakant Yadav The Allahabad High Court has rejected the bail application of BSP MP Umakant Yadav who has been booked under the Gangsters Act for alleged forcible occupation of land and illegally demolishing the structures constructed there. The order was passed by Justice Ashok Kumar Roopanwal who observed that there was "no new basis" for enter..

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a petition seeking to restrain CBI from conducting narco-analysis test on the suspects in Noida's Aarushi-Hemraj murder case. The petition was filed by All India Lawyers Joint Action Committee, an unregistered body of lawyers. Refusing to entertain the plea, a bench headed by Justice Altamas Kabir said the lawyer's body had no locus standi..

A recently released report titled "Torture in India 2008: A State of Denial" - the first-ever nationwide assessment on the use of torture in the world's largest democracy - by the Hong Kong-based Asian Center for Human Rights (ACHR) contains disconcerting facts about the blatant and widespread use of the practice by Indian authorities in prisons and police custody. The ACHR report found that 7..

An Indian-origin surgeon has been barred from practising for two years in New Jersey and slapped with USD81,000 fine for operating on a wrong lung of a cancer patient eight years ago. The State Board of Medical Examiners found that Dr Santusht Perera removed a portion of right lung of 60-year-old Richard Flagg when he should have been operated on a tumour in the left lung, then lied and altere..

Expressing concern over the plight of a large number of undertrials in the country, Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnanhas urged his fellow judges to take a liberal view and grant bails to undertrials not charged with heinous offences. Justice Balakrishnan, who had scripted a new chapter in jurisprudence by ordering closure of criminal trials against mentally-ill prisoners if their confinem..

The Principal Sessions Court, Chennai, today granted bail to two city businessmen, who were arrested on the charges of abducting and robbing an American teacher. Allowing their second bail petition, Principal Sessions Judge Aruna Jagadeesan ordered Jose Mathew and Shaka John to furnish a surety for Rs 5,000 and two other sureties for a like sum. The judge also directed them to report before the..

JAMMU, Jun 25 (UNI) A local court said no accused can be hand-cuffed without permission of the court. In an application filed by Captain Chaitnaya facing trial in abetment to suicide case of his wife Capt Mega Razdan, ordered that it is settled proposition of law that no accused can be hand-cuffed without permission of the court. Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Jammu Y P Bourney observed a..

In fresh trouble for Jaya Bachchan, the Election Commission on Tuesday ordered that an FIR be registered against the Samajwadi Party MP for allegedly concealing property details in her affidavit while filing her nomination papers for Rajya Sabha elections. The ADG of Uttar Pradesh Police Brij Lal said SSP Lucknow Akhil Kumar was taking "legal opinion" before the FIR is filed by police..

Rajib Chatterjee KOLKATA, June 22: A 45-year-old city-based entrepreneur, Indrajit Chatterjee, has gone into hiding after allegedly duping six banks of more than Rs 5 crore in the last two years. Police are looking for Chatterjee, who had introduced himself as a tenant of an residential building located on 19/1A, Zamir Lane in Gariahat and as the owner of an apartment on Syed Amir Ali Avenue w..

Mon, Jun 23 03:37 PM A key accused in the sensational Satyendra Dubey murder case on Monday escaped from the Patna civil court premises where he was produced before a special CBI judge. Police said Uday Chaudhary removed his oversized handcuff outside the court room and escaped. This is the second time that Uday has escaped from court premises. He had given policemen the slip when he fled in..

Mon, Jun 23 04:42 PM Ranchi, June 23 (PTI) Ten more former government officials were today given rigorous imprisonment ranging from five to seven years, taking the total to 33 in the fodder scam in which Rs 1.47 crore was withdrawn fraudulently from Dumka treasury. The special CBI court, which on June 13 had convicted 34 persons in the fodder scam, would deliver the quantum of punishment agai..

India and Australia today inked treaties on extradition and mutual legal assistance in criminal matters as they vowed to enhance their strategic security and counter-terrorism cooperation. "Australia wants to take the relationship with India to the front ranks of the partnerships we have," Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said at a joint press briefing with visiting External Affairs Minister Pran..

Srinagar, Jun 22 (UNI) Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has directed the authorities to take action against state police officials for the custodial killing of a youth. The SHRC also directed the authorities to pay Rs one lakh compensation and employment to one member of the family of the deceased youth. The commission gave the order on a petition filed by widow ..