criminal law

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Centre on a petition challenging the Delhi High Court judgement legalising gay sex among the consenting adults. The apex court posted the matter for hearing on July 20. The Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said that any interim order against the High Court verdict, ..

Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab requested the special court, hearing the 26/11 terror attack case, to provide him with books as he was ‘bored’ with the life in jail. Kasab, currently lodged in the highly-guarded Arthur Road Jail, during the court proceedings today said that he was feeling bored and either the court should provide him books or allow him to b..

An employee of Cama hospital Kailash Borge told the designated court, hearing the 26/11 terror attack case, that he was a witness to terrorist Ajmal Kasab, using one of the hospital staff as a human shield to save himself from police. Deposing before the designated court Judge M L Tahilyani, Mr Borge said Kasab used the watchman of the hospital as a human shield, when he al..

The Supreme Court today directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to file a status report giving details of the investigation carried out in the sensational Aarushi-Hemraj murder case. A bench comprising Justices Altamas Kabir and Cyrus Joseph issued the direction when Solicitor General of India, Gopal Subramaniam, appearing for the CBI, informed the court that the..

A city court framed charges against underworld don Abu Salem in a seven-year-old extortion case. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja framed charges under Section 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 387 (extortion) and 506 (criminal intimidation). Salem pleaded not guilty and opted for trial. The court would record the statement of prosecution witness o..

The Madras High Court has issued notice to the State and Union Governments on a habeas corpus petition, seeking the production of a person detained under the National Security Act (NSA), before the court and set him at liberty. A Division Bench comprising Justices S J ..

The Supreme Court today directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to file a status report giving details of the investigation carried out in the sensational Aarushi-Hemraj murder case. A bench comprising Justices Altamas Kabir and Cyrus Joseph issued the direction when Solicitor General of India, Gopal Subramaniam, appearing for the CBI, informed the court that the ..

 A petition was today filed in the NHRC seeking investigation into the alleged killing of a MBA student by Dehradun Police on July 3 in a fake encounter. The petition sought a probe into the killing through a special investigating team to be constituted by NHRC. Dehradun SSP has been transferred and six other police officials have been sent to line..

A Judge of the Gujarat High Court declined to hear a petition, challenging the probe by Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) against Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 62 others, allegedly involved in the post-Godhra riots of 2002. Justice Harshaben Devani wrote "not before me" when the petition came up for hearing before her.  br..

Uttarakhand CID has started its probe into the case of encounter of 24 year old youth from Ghaziabad by Dehradun police following registration of a case against the police personnel allegedly involved in the incident. A case of murder was registered in the matter in Raipur Police Station late on Monday night. The police personnel have also been charged with rioting while being armed with weapon..

 Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh's lawyer will file a fresh mercy petition before Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday in the wake of the Supreme Court dismissing his appeal against the capital punishment. Owais Sheikh, the new counsel for Sarabjit, said the petition seeking clemency for the Indian natio..

The body of Ranbir Singh, gunned down by Uttarakhand police in an alleged fake encounter, bore 12 marks of bullets fired from close range and 27 other injuries showing that he may have been tortured, according to an autopsy report. Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank had on Saturday ordered a CB-CID probe into the killing of..

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 ..

A local court granted bail to incarcerated former RJD MP Mohammed Shahabuddin in connection with murder of a Mukhiya in 2002. Additional district and sessions Judge Gyaneshwar Srivastav granted bail to Mohammed Shahabuddin after hearing arguments of his counsel and that of the prosecution.  According to the charges, former RJD MP was involved in th..

The Supreme Court has ruled that petty quarrels between husband and wife do not amount to cruelty under Section 498A, IPC (cruelty and harassment for dowry). A bench comprising Justices Mukundakam Sharma and B S Chauhan, dropping the charges of cruelty and harassment against a husband, noted, ‘Petty quarrels cannot be termed as cruelty to attract the provisions of Sec..