criminal law

The Supreme Court held last week that a deputy general manager is not a person who is responsible t..

The Delhi High Court has reserved its judgment on a bunch of appeals by convicts in the Atma Ram murder case against their conviction by a trial court here in 2006. The Court reserved the judgment on conclusion of arguments by the prosecution and counsel for the accused persons. It had started hearing arguments on the appeals last year. Former Municipal Corporation of Delhi coun..

 In what is perhaps for the first time, a car driver who was abused, threatened, assaulted and thrown into a drain for inadvertently ramming another car, petitioned the Karnataka High Court seeking expeditious action against those who had attacked him. In his petition, Rajesh Shetty said that he was driving from Bannerghatta to Bangalore at 5.15 p.m. on January 26 when his vehicle ..

One person died and six others — four lawyers and two clients — were injured in a bomb blast inside an advocate’s chamber at the district court here on Friday. Bhojpur Police Superintendent Sunil Kumar said the b..

 SP Javed Iqbal Matoo, DSP Rohit Baskotra, SHO Shafiq Ahmad, SI Ghazi Abdul Karim suspended Forensic lab officer Hafiz Iqbal to be prosecuted ..

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Saturday asked the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to exhume the bodies of the two women who were murdered at Shopian for a fresh autopsy and collecting DNA samples. A Division Ben..

 The four police officials suspended in connection with the alleged rape and murder of two women in Shopian will be treated as accused and interrogated by a Special Investigation Team set up by the Jammu and Kashmir gove..

 CBI has informed the Supreme Court that it was ready with a chargesheet against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati in the five-year-old disproportionate assets case which the BSP supremo alleged was politically motivated. "The competent authority has already taken a decision to file final report under section 173 of..

A local court in Gujarat granted Criminal Investigation Department with permission to conduct narco test on Godman-turned-conman Ashok Jadeja, allegedly involved in duping people of several hundred crores of rupees on pretext of tripling the amount. Metropolitan Magistrate R M Parikh upheld the application by the CID (Crime) seeking permission to conduct the narco test on J..

Cama Hospital Administrative officer Shaikh Naziruddin, a panch witness in the 26/11 attacks case, today told the court that the staircase walls and lifts of fifth and sixth floor of the hospital building bore several bullet marks. Deposing before the special court Judge M L Tahilyani, who is presiding over the 26/11 terror attacks trial, Mr Naziruddin said the tubelights o..

A local court issued bail orders in favour of breakaway Hurriyat Conference (HC) ailing Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, admitted in the Sher-e-Kashmir (SeK) Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) at Soura. Mr Geelani was arrested on June 6 from his Hyderpora house, where he had been put under house arrest. However, he was later shifted to SKIMS from Ches..

An accused can be convicted for rape even if there are no injuries on the private parts of the victim as the same does not amount to consensual sex, the Supreme Court has ruled. "Corroborative evidence is not an imperative component of judicial credence in every case of rape nor the absence of injuries on the private parts o..

A day after a lawyer along with his colleagues manhandled a judge in the Rohini District Court, the Bar Council of Delhi constituted a three-member fact-finding committee, which will submit its report within seven days. Eminent lawyers, including Amarjit Singh Chandhiok and K C Mittal, will be on the committee, a notification for which was issued by Bar Council of Delhi Cha..

The Supreme Court issued notices to NGO Naz Foundation and the Union Government on a petition challenging the Delhi High Court judgment decriminalising homosexuality between two adults with mutual consent. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathashivam issued notices when the matter was mentioned before the court for early hearing. br..

  Even as procedural formalities for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to take over the investigations in the Ranbir Singh encounter case are on, the Uttarakhand CID continued with its investigations into the case for the third day. Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) CID Vijay Raghav Pant told The Indi..