criminal law

Rejecting the State Cabinet’s clear advice to the contrary, Kerala Governor R.S. Gavai on Sunday conveyed his permission to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to prosecute Communist Party of India (Marxist) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan in the SNC-Lavalin case involving certain charges of corruption. The CBI had sought the Governor’s clearance to proceed against Mr..

The Supreme Court has upheld the conviction and sentence of ten people under TADA, involved in the killing of nine others belonging to the rival gang of liquor vendors in Ahmedabad on Aug 3, 1992. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices P Sathasivam and J M Panchal upheld the order of the Ahmedabad TADA court, dated October 21, 2002, that had sentence..

The Gujarat High Court issued notices to Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) and the state government in response to an application filed by Kalubhai Hirabhai Malival, a BJP MLA from Lunavada, challenging the investigation being done against Chief Minister Narendra Mo..

Master conman Ashok Jadeja might have cheated the entire members of Sansi community, a denotified nomadic tribe spread over north and western states of the country, off around Rs 2000 crore, Deputy Superintendent of Police (CID) R K Patel said today, Mr Patel, who is investigating the cas..

The Supreme Court has upheld the conviction and sentence of ten people under TADA, involved in the killing of nine others belonging to the rival gang of liquor vendors in Ahmedabad on Aug 3, 1992. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices P Sathasi..

Seeking direction from the Jammu and Kashmir High Court to the stat government to register a case in connection with the killing and alleged rape of two women at Shopian in south Kashmir, the Kashmir Bar Association (KBA) has prayed that an investigation team be appointed to probe the incident. The KBA has already rejected the one-man inquiry commission, headed by Justice (r..

One of the six suspects, detained in connection with the attack on two visiting Indian Sikh preachers in Vienna last month, has been released due to lack of evidence. "The man has been released because there has not been enough evidence against him to justify keeping him behind bars," said his lawyer, Philipp Winkler./..

If a woman dies one year or so after an alleged harassment by husband and in-laws, it cannot be treated as a cruelty for dowry and the accused cannot be convicted for ca..

The government on Friday rejected the Opposition's demand for appointing an Inquiry Commission into the 26/11 Mumbai attacks saying it was "surprising" that it was being made six months after the terror strike. "I don't think there is a need for a Commission of Inquiry. We are not going to appoint it," Home Mi..

Nearly a month after the prosecution in 26/11 terror attack case urged for non-bailable warrants (NBW) against 35 absconding accused, including Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafeez Saeed, a special court h..

A city court Tuesday summoned the chief executive officer (CEO) of HSBC India and others to appear before it after finding that the multi national company (MNC) bank had forged documents to wriggle out of a case relating to termination of an employee. Metropolitan Magistrate Jitendra Mishra, while hearing a petition of Manju Saxena challenging her termination from service, observed that there ..

 The Supreme Court on Monday expressed its anguish over the increasing incidents of dowry deaths and suggested that no mercy be shown to those accused of burning women to death over dowry demands. Justice Markandey Katju sitting with Justice Deepak Verma as a vacation Bench orally observed that such persons should be hanged. The Bench was hearing an application filed by Pre..

  Advocates, including seniors, appearing in the Supreme Court during the ongoing summer vacation are at the receiving end with the vacation bench frequently pulling them up for their perceived misdemeanours and lack o..

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The Supreme Court granted bail to an 85-year-old facing allegation of committing rape on a 16-year-old girl about two decades ago in Patiala. Petitioner Madhoo Singh was sentenced to seven years imprisonment by the trial court on June 30, 1992 after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a girl of his gr..