criminal law

  In another twist to the Mumbai terror attack trial, defence lawyer Abbas Kazmi on Thursday said he wanted to withdraw from the case.    /..

A special court conducting the 26/11 terror attack trial on Thursday took on record the plea of guilt made by arrested Pakistani gunman Mohammad Ajmal Kasab and ordered the case to continue. Special Judge M L Tahilyani in his speaking order said the court has come to a conclusion that Kasab's statement should be taken on record and considered at an appropriate stage as evidence. The court instr..

Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone Pakistani gunman captured during the 26/11 terror attack, today told the Mumbai trial court it was free to sentence him to death by hanging if there were doubts that he had pleaded guilty with the intention to escape the death penalty for a lesser sentence. Standing in the dock in a white kurta-pyjama, ..

 Actor Shiney Ahuja has not admitted before court that he had consensual sex with his domestic help and taken a stand that he was being framed up on rape charges, his lawyer Srikant Shivade said on Sunday. "What the actor had said in his bail petition was that even if it is assumed for the sake of argument that he had conse..

Lone captured Pakistani terrorist in the 26/11 attacks, Ajmal Amir Kasab today refuted his advocate Abbas Kazmi’s claim that he (Kasab) was mentally tortured by any person in the prison.  Mr Kazmi had contended before the court that his client was being subjected to mental torture by some persons for the last few days, and that is why he had pleaded guilty. ..

 The Madras High Court has granted an interim stay on an order of the Second Additional District Munsif at Coimbatore as confirmed by the Principal Subordinate Judge, Coimbatore, in a case relating to provident fund contributions from NEPC Airlines and two sister concerns, NEPC Textiles and NEPC Tea Garden.  Justice S Palanivelu granted interim stay and ordered no..

The National Human Rights Commission(NHRC) today submitted its inquiry report in the Batla House encounter case to the Delhi High Court for perusal. Accepting the sealed cover report, a Division Bench headed by Chief Justice A P Shah directed the Commission to put the report’s contents on its website. Although the contents of the report have not b..

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed police to take proper steps to arrest those accused of a schedule caste girl Belkheda village. Chief Justice A K Patnaik and Justice Pankaj Jaiswal yesterday took suo moto action on the basis of a report in an english daily ne..

Granting bail to an advocate who had forged documents for his client, the Delhi High Court barred him from appearing in the courts till the time he is cleared from the disciplinary proceedings initiated by the Bar Council of Delhi. Taking strong exception on the conduc..

  The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed police to take proper steps to arrest those accused of a schedule caste girl Belkheda village. Chief Justice A K Patnaik and Justice Pankaj Jaiswal yesterday took suo moto action on the basis of a report in an english daily newspaper. On June 17, the minor was reportedly raped by five youths wh..

 The Supreme Court today stayed till further orders the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment which permitted abortion of a mentally challenged pregnant woman. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan directed that the court would give reasons later. The apex court also made it clear that they were going to set aside the impugned judgm..

 Justice N A Britto of the Bombay High Court today reserved judgment on the Criminal Writ Petition filed by social activist Advocate Aires Rodrigues against Goa’s Advocate General Mr Subodh Kantak. Justice Britto heard arguments advanced by Mr Rodrigues and Advocate S G Bhobe, who appeared for the Advocate General. Incidentally, the latter is also appearing for the Health Minister ..

  The Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued notices to eight respondents, including Punjab home secretary, police chief and a ruling SAD MP, in a case of alleged kidnapping and gangrape of a minor girl of Tarn Taran district last month. Justice Nawab Singh yesterday issued notices for August 10 on a petition filed by a sixteen-and-a-half year old girl of T..

The Union Law Secretary has told the government that it’s difficult to find any lacunae in the judgment of the Delhi High Court which struck down provisions in Section 377 of the IPC that criminalised homosexuality. This comes when the Centre has sought time from the Supreme Court to formulate its stand on the issue. On Tue..

 The special court trying the lone surviving terrorist in 26/11 Mumbai terror strikes, Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, on Tuesday said the Pakistani gunman's statement pleading guilty before it was not a confession but an admission of guilt. Judge M.L. Tahaliyani said K..