criminal law

 Principal District and Sessions Judge M.A. Shashikala has advised banking institutions in the district to inform borrowers of all related matters such as interest rates while granting loans. Speaking after inaugurating an extension counter of the Pragati Gramin Bank on the court premises here on Tuesday, she said that many customers failed to repay loans on time because of lack of..

 The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Tuesday described as “unsatisfactory” the report of the Madhya Pradesh government on alleged virginity tests conducted on brides during a State-sponsored mass marriage and decided to probe the matter on its own. A five-member team of the Commission led by NCW member Yasmin Abrar will visit Shahdol in the State to study the exe..

The Supreme Court granted six weeks time to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati to respond to the affidavit filed by the CBI seeking its permission to file a chargesheet against her in a disproportionate assets case. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan ..

The Supreme Court while acquitting a rape convict, has said that the victim seemed to be a woman of easy virtue. A bench comprising Justices Mukundakan Sharma and B S Chauhan while holding that the prosecution had failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt also noted, ‘the complainant appears to be a lady used to sexual intercourse and a dissolute lady. ..

Madras High Court fixed August 3 for final hearing on appeal petitions filed by the convicts in the Coimbatore serial bomb blasts case. When the case came up before a specially constituted Bench comprising Ms Justices Prabha Sridevan and M Sathyanarayanan, the counsels representing the convicts submitted that the appeal petitions were pending in the court for a long time and..

A local trial court acquitted all the six accused in Prof H S Sabharwal murder case on the grounds that the prosecution had failed to prove charges against the accused. District Judge Nitin Dalvi delivered the judgment this afternoon in a packed courtroom. ..

 Justice Muzaffar Jan who headed the judicial probe into the rape and murder of two women in Shopian, created a sensation on Sunday by saying that the parts of his report which were derogatory to the victims of the crime were not his. Justice Jan said that the controversial sections were part of a separate report prepared by the police investigation team working with him, which had..

The Centre is most likely to seek reference of the five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court on the issue of decriminalising homosexuality between two consenting adults. In view of stiff opposition to Delhi High Court judgment dated July 2, decriminalising gay sex between two consenting adults, by all religious leaders, the government may plead with the Supreme Cou..

A local trial court acquitted all the six accused in Prof H S Sabharwal murder case on the grounds that the prosecution had failed to prove charges against the accused. District Judge Nitin Dalvi delivered the judgment this afternoon in a packed courtroom. Earlier, counsels for the defence and the prosecution submitted their final arguments before the c..

A doctor, who is a witness in the 26/11 terrorist attack case, told the designated court that he had conducted post-mortems of 21 persons killed on that unfortunate day, including Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) Chief Hemant Karkare and joint commissioner Ashok Kamte. Dr Bhalchandra Chikhalikar of Grand Medical College, deposing before Designated court judge M L Tahiliyani, said..

Madras High Court fixed August 3 for final hearing on appeal petitions filed by the convicts in the Coimbatore serial bomb blasts case. When the case came up before a specially constituted Bench comprising Ms Justices Prabha Sridevan and M Sathyanarayanan, the counsels representing the convicts submitted that the appeal petitions were pending in the court for a long time an..

The Supreme Court granted six weeks time to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati to respond to the affidavit filed by the CBI seeking its permission to file a chargesheet against her in a disproportionate assets case. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices P Sathasivam and J M Panchal granted time to BSP supremo when her counsel submitted before the..

The Supreme Court while acquitting a rape convict, has said that the victim seemed to be a woman of easy virtue. A bench comprising Justices Mukundakan Sharma and B S Chauhan while holding that the prosecution had failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt also noted, ‘the complainant appears to be a lady used to sexual intercourse and a dissolute lady. /b..

 The lone captured Pakistani gunman Ajmal Amir Kasab requested the special court Judge M L Tahilyani, presiding over the 26/11 terror attacks case, to provide him with an envelope as he wanted to write a letter to someone in Saudi Arabia.  When Judge Tahilyani specifically asked him as to whom he wanted to write a letter, he replied Saudi Arabia, but did not speci..

Advocate Srikant Shivade, counsel for Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja, today said the actor has not admitted before the court that he had consensual sex with his domestic help and he was a victim of a ‘well-hatched conspiracy’. ‘What the actor had said in his bail petition was that even if it is assumed for the sake of argument that he had consensual sex, no ..