criminal law

Cancelling the anticipatory bail of the prime accused in the hit-and-run incident involving two highways engineers, the Madras High Court today said certain material factors were not brought to the court's notice when it passed the impunged order granting the bail last month. In his order, Justice K N Pasha of the Madurai Bench of the court said the high court had on Feb 27 granted bail to Se..

The Supreme Court has on Friday reserved its judgment on a petition seeking transfer of Prof H S Sabharwal murder case outside Madhya Pradesh. A bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and P Sathasivam, however, indicated that the case may be transferred to Nagpur in Maharashtra where there is no BJP government and Nagpur is also closer to Ujjain as compared to Delhi. Himanshu Singh Sab..

Soren acquitted in Chirrudih massacre case JMM supremo and Lok Sabha MP Sibu Soren on Thursday was acquitted in the Chirrudih massacre of 1975, Jamtara Additional District and Sessions Judge Arun Kumar acquitted Soren and 13 others for want of evidence. The court held seven persons guilty in the case. Out of the 22 accused, one person did not appear in the court on Thursday..

The Supreme Court has said that the special power of High Courts to quash criminal cases related to dowry harassment should be exercised "sparingly, carefully and with caution" as such powers are necessary to do "the right and undo a wrong". The apex court's ruling came while setting aside the Patna High Court order quashing a criminal proceedings alleging dowry harassment under Section 482 of ..

The Supreme Court has said that the inherent power of High Courts to quash criminal proceedings should be exercised "sparingly, carefully and with caution" as such powers are necessary to do "the right and undo a wrong". The apex court's ruling came while setting aside the Patna High Court order quashing criminal proceedings under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in a dowry harassm..

The CBI today informed the Delhi High Court that it has filed chargesheets in 30 matters out of a total of 90 linked to the allotment of land to co-operative group housing societies in the housing scam case. Submitting a fresh status report before the Division Bench of Justice Manmohan Sarin and Justice Veena Birbal, CBI counsel Harish Gulati said that CBI was waiting for sanction from the go..

The CBI today informed the Supreme Court that former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala and his MP son Ajay Chautala can be prosecuted in the junior teacher appointment scam of 1999-2000 without securing a sanction from the Governor or the Lok Sabha Speaker. Additional Solicitor General Amrender Sharan told a Bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhan and Dalveer Bhandari that there was no ..

The Delhi High Court today decided to hear a petition filed by Uphaar cinema fire victims seeking enhancement of the two-year jail sentence awarded to the Ansal brothers, owners of the hall for 59 cinegoers' death in the 1997 tragedy. Justice H R Malhotra posted the matter sine die saying the matter would be taken up after he completes hearing the final argument on the appeals filed by Uphaar..

Etawah, Mar 2 (UNI) A local court has ordered registration of a case against six policemen, including the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) and Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) over the killing of a student here. Mukesh Yadav, student of Hembara Degree College, had died in a clash with police while staging a protest. The youth was agitating against the alleged mishandling of Sama..

The Supreme Court has ruled that the owner of a vehicle used for smuggling cannot escape liability unless he proves that he had no knowledge of the illegal act. "It is a matter which is within his knowledge. Mere assertion without anything else will not suffice," a bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and P Sathasivam said. Interpreting the provision of the Indian Forest Act, the apex court sa..

A local court has remanded organ transplant racket prime accused Amit Kumar to five days in police custody for questioning in connection with removing a man's kidney in a village in 1995. Co-accused K K Aggarwal was meanwhile sent to jail till 7th March by a special CBI court in Ambala on the expiry of the agency's remand. Amit Kumar's brother Jeevan will be produced in the Ambala court on..

Controversial RJD Lok Sabha Member Mohammed Shahabuddin has suffered a fresh setback on Friday with a special court in Siwan sentencing him to rigorous imprisonment for a year for threatening a government official. Additional District and Sessions Judge B B Gupta found the MP guilty of threatening the then sub-inspector of Jiradei police station Harendra Rai in 2005 over mobile phone from Beur ..

The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail to 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yusuf Abdul Razak Memon, who was sentenced to life imprisonment by a TADA court. After going through Yusuf's medical report placed before it by the CBI, a Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrisnan directed that he be released on bail till 14th July. The court said that it will review Yusuf's bail be..

New Delhi, Feb 28 (UNI) The Supreme Court once again declined to show any leniency to a person found guilty of gangraping a married woman, confirming life imprisonment awarded to him by the trial court and Punjab and Haryana High Court. A bench comprising Justices S B Sinha and V S Sirpurkar, while dismissing the appeal of Ramesh Kumar, son of Sarpanch of village Rajapur in Panipat, yesterday n..

New Delhi, Feb 26 (UNI) The Delhi High Court today ordered to free a man, incarcerated in jail since October 27 last year, under preventive detention. A division bench, headed by Justices Vikramjit Sena a`nd P K Bhasin, set aside the detaining order passed by joint secretary to the Government of India Rashida Hussain on 27 December, 2007 after hearing a petition by Shashi Goyal for release of h..