criminal law

The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court has granted Maharashtra police time till June 2 to file its reply in connection with a petition seeking a probe by the CBI into the death of a seven-year-old girl, whose body was found in a car parked in the residence of BJP state unit chief Nitin Gadkari. In his order, vacation Judge Justice S R Dongaonkar said the CBI may file its ..

The Supreme Court granted permission to controversial godman Chandraswami to go abroad after depositing Rs 10 lakh in cash with the Enforcement Directorate(ED), who are investigating allegations of illegal transactions under FERA. A vacation bench comprising Justices V S Sirpurkar and R M Lodha also directed the passport authorities to release his passport after completing a..

The vacation judge of Orissa High Court, Justice R N Biswal, today stayed execution of non-bailable warrant (NBW) issued against the controversial US writer Peter Heehs and author of book titled ‘The Lives of Sri Aurobindo’ The vacation judge also stayed further proceedings in the matter pending before the Judicial Magistrate (First Class) court of Barbil in Keonjhar district till d..

The man, who had on the evening of November 26 seen the 10-member terrorist gang landing on the Indian soil at Colaba, south Mumbai, identified lone captured Pakistani accused Ajmal Amir Kasab in the special court. Bharat Tamore, a 50-year-old employee of hotel The Taj, one of the worst affected place in the 26/11 terror attacks, deposed before designated judge M L Tahiliyan..

 The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted anticipatory bail to Pakistani singer Adnan Sami in connection with the harassment case filed by his wife. Sami will have to produce two sureties of Rs 15,000 to get bail if arrested. He will also have to surrender his passport after his next week’s foreign tour...

The clothes of 26/11 attack accused Abu Ismail, who died in police encounter during the attack on November 26 last year, were displayed in court today. Seeing Ismail’s undergarment, which had holes at various places, designated Judge M L Tahilyani said, "Was the terrorist, who had an AK 47 in his hand, in such poverty." When Advocate Shahid Azmi, defence coun..

A day after the Supreme Court granted him bail, controversial civil rights activist and national vice-president of the People’s Union for Civil Liberty (PUCL), Dr Binayak Sen, was released from the Raipur Central Jail this evening. Dr Sen, who was facing trial for the last couple of years on charges of aiding and abetting Maoist activities in Chhattisgarh, was set free..

The Supreme Court asked Enforcement Direct(ed) ‘why no action has been taken against controversial godman Chandra Swami when the government suspected that he had financed LTTE’s involvement in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi?’ A vacation bench comprising Justices V S Sirpurkar and R M Lodha put the query to ED council Wasim Ahmed Kadri when he alleged t..

On Monday, the Supreme Court ordered the release of prominent civil rights activist Binayak Sen, who is lodged in a Chhattisgarh jail for the past two years. A vacation bench of Justices Markandey Katju and Deepak Verma ordered Sen's release on his submitting a personal bond to the satisfaction of the local trial court. A prominent PUCL leader, Sen was arrested by the Chhattisgarh police for ..

The Supreme Court has held that a court cannot interfere with the course of investigation of a crime by directing any investigating agency to focus on any particular office and do the investigation accordingly. A bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and Asok Kumar ..

The Supreme Court has ruled that a girlfriend or a concubine is not a relative and therefore cannot be prosecuted for an offence under section 498 (A) of the IPC (cruelty for dowry). A bench comprising Justices S P Sinha and R M Lodha, while allowing the appeal of U Suvetha, the alleged girlfriend of Tutus Gunaraj the husband of the complainant, in its judgment noted," By no stretch of imaginat..

The Bombay High Court granted bail to police officer Manohar Kadam, sentenced to life imprisonment by a Sessions Court in the infamous Ramabai firing case of 1997. A vacation bench of Justices A V Nirgude and Rajesh Ketkar while granting bail to Kadam directed him to produce a personal bond of Rs 50,000. They also directed him not to tamper with the evide..

The Supreme Court has ruled that the court can order further investigations, but cannot order reinvestigation in a criminal case. A bench comprising Justices S B Sinha and Mukundakam Sharma, while allowing the appeal of the six accused in a 2002 Gujarat communal riots ..

Orissa High Court allowed prayer of the nun, who was allegedly raped during the communal violence in Kandhmal in August last, to hold the Test Identification (TI) parade in the Chowdwar Circle Jail near here. Adjudicating the petition of the nun praying for shifting the venue of the TI parade outside Kandhamal, single judge bench of High court Mr Justice B K Patel passed the..

The Supreme Court has ruled that in an offence against the society, the criminal charges cannot be dropped against the accused. A bench, comprising Justices S B Sinha and Mukundakam Sharma, while dismissing an appeal of one Rumi Dhar, who along with her husband and six others was charge sheeted for criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery noted, ‘The High Court in exe..