criminal law

Following a Bombay high court directive, the Versova police on Thursday registered an FIR in the alleged fake encounter killing of Navi Mumbai resident Ramnarayan Gupta who was shot dead by D N Nagar policemen on November 11, 2006.  The FIR has named 17 policemen, including dismissed police ins..

Jammu and Kashmir High Court deferred Shopian double murder and rape case till August 26. The divisional bench was recently approached by the government requesting to allow it to hand over the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The bench hearing the case today said it had no objection if the case was handed over to the CBI. The court, ho..

The Supreme Court stayed till further orders the death sentence of a person found guilty of raping and murdering his four-year-old daughter. A bench comprising Justices D K Jain and H L Dutta also issued notices to the state on an appeal filed by Neel Kumar alias Anil Kumar who was sentenced to death by the trial court and his death sentence was confirmed by Punjab and Hary..

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has rejected bail applications of Congress MLA Brijendra Singh Rathore and five other accused in connection with the murder of BJP leader Sunil Nayak. Hearing bail pleas of Mr Rathore and other accused, Justice Rakesh Saxena accepted the contentions of Nayak’s wife Anita Nayak and her counsel Adarsh Muni Trivedi that the accused may misus..

The Patna High Court has taken a serious note on a judgment delivered in a 1995 case of double murder in which Prabhunath Singh, former JD(U) MP and six others were acquitted by the lower court on October 24,2008. During the administrative review of the case yesterday, the High Court found that prima-facie, provision of the established law was ignored in the judgment acquit..

NON BAILABLE WARRANTS AGAINST SHO Wednesday 19th August 2009 CHANDIGARH: Taking serious note of misbehaviour by cops with a high court warrant officer, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday issued non-bailable w..

Patna High Court has reopened a 1995 case of double murder in which Prabhunath Singh, a former MP of the ruling JD(U) in Bihar, was acquitted by the lower court on October 24, 2008. The High Court initiated suo moto criminal revision of the judgment of lower court Judg..

The Supreme Court has awarded life sentence to four members of Chhota Shakeel gang involved in a March 4, 1997 attack on ex-Mumbai Mayor Milind Vaidya, in which three people were killed. A bench comprising Justices S P Sinha and Mukundkam Sharma awarded life imprisonment to four of the eight accused and ten years rigorous imprisonment to two others, while not commenting on ..

The Supreme Court has directed the Kerala government to supply all the documents to former state power minister R Balakrishna Pillai in connection with a corruption case. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam granted four weeks time for the purpose. Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan has filed a petition challen..

Naysayers to death penalty can take heart. A 30-year-old Supreme Court judgment laying down "rarest of rare case" guidelines on imposition of death penalty may soon see further tightening that could make award of capital punishment an absolute rare phenomenon.  In a recent order, the ..

Designated court, conducting the trial in 26/11 terror attack case, deferred the recording of evidence of the owner of International Contact Service "Cellphonix" through Video Conferencing as he did not possess certain necessary documents. Justice M L Tahilyani, presiding over the trial, deferred the recording after the witness, who was deposing from a hotel room ..

The Supreme Court issued bailable warrants against all the seven accused in the 1994 Gopalganj District Magistrate G Krishnaiah murder case. Krishnaiah and his car was set on fire by the mob in Vaishali, Bihar on December 5, 1994. The then MP Anand Mohan Singh was sentenced to death by the trial court in 2007 while his wife Lovely Anand, MP, was awarded..

he Madras high court has quashed a criminal case against two school teachers, who were charged with scolding, and thereby instigating a Class 9 girl to commit suicide. N Anjali Devi and C Veeran were cited as accused in the case after the girl, Udhaya, immolated herself and then gave a dying declaration that the two teachers had scolded her and told her that she should die rather than le..

Another attempt to get a stay against the Delhi High Court judgment decriminalising gay sex between two consenting adults drew a blank as the Supreme Court today declined to stay the High Court judgment dated July two this year. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam, however, issued notices to the Centre and Naz foundation on the applica..

Justice G. Bhavani Prasad of the High Court on Monday dismissed the petition filed by Ranganath Goud, Sub-Inspector of Ponnur town police station, in Guntur district, who is facing allegations of deceiving a woman, Sheikh Razia Sultana, after promising to marry her. The judge passed final orders in the petition filed by the SI. The petitioner prayed the court to quash the case registered again..