criminal law

New Delhi: Mere re-payment of loan under a settlement scheme cannot exempt the accused who had allegedly cheated the bank from criminal proceedings, the Supreme Court has held. A Bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice H.S. Bedi gave this ruling while allowing an appeal from the Central Bureau of Investigation against a judgment of the Madras High Court quashing the entire crimina..

In an interesting twist to the proceedings of the trial of the 26/11 terrorist attacks on Mumbai, Abbas Kazmi, defence lawyer for the lone surviving Pakistani terrorist Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, today sought the designated court to withdraw him from the case, stating he cannot work under pressure. Kazmi’s statement came soon after designated court Judge M L Tahiliyani..

 The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from controversial RJD MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of CPI-M leader Ajit Sarkar, on a plea seeking cancellation of the bail granted to him by the ..

BJP Pilibhit Lok Sabha candidate Varun Gandhi today filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking Rs 10 lakh compensation from the Uttar Pradesh government for his illegal detention under NSA. The application was mentioned before a bench comprising Chief Justice K ..

Allahabad High Court asked District Magistrate, DIG and IG to be present in Court on May 18 in the advocate death case in nursing home. After going through the affidavits of officers and case diary of the cases filed against Dr A K Bansal, a bench comprising Just..

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 Su..

The Gujarat High Court on Thursday asked the Government of Gujarat to pay a compensation of Rs.262 crore to victims of the riots that followed the burning of the Sabarmati Express in 2002.The High Court order said that sum was allocated for the riot victims by the Central Government in 2007, and therefore, it was only right that the state government should distribute it to the victim..

The Supreme Court on Thursday revoked the National Security Act (NSA) invoked against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi for making an alleged 'hate-speech' in Pilibhit. Varun had challenged the imposition of the NSA by the Uttar Pradesh Government in the apex court and demanded compensation of rupees 10 lakh from Chief Minister Mayawati. The imposition of NSA on V..

The Supreme Court refused to stay the proceedings of a defamation case filed by JD(U) leader Jaya Jaitly against Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal for conducting a sting operation against her.A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices P Sathasivam and Deepak Verma declined to interfere with the proceedings pending in a trial court in Delhi.b..

The Supreme Court has ruled that the scheme of Juvenile Justice (care and protection of children) Act 2000 is meant for rehabilitation of minor offenders who have strayed, to bring them back to the main stream of life.A bench comprising Justice Altamas Kabir and Cyriac Joseph also held that a juvenile offender who has not attained the age of 18 years on the date of co..

  Prompted by a PIL the Delhi High Court has directed the Registrar Genaral to issue a notification to the effect that an accused can sit during trial of their cases save when judge enters the courtroom to start proceedings.Though in 1981 the Supreme Court already directed the all high courts to incorporate..

 SC adjourns petition of Mulayam Singh Yadav's in Disproportionate Assets case The Supreme Court adjourned till July 30 the hearing of the review petition filed by former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and his family members in the disproportionate assets case. ..

 The court hearing the Mumbai terror attack case would frame charges against prime accused Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab and two others on Wednesday.   p styl..

The Supreme Court has said that the minimum prescribed sentence for a crime cannot be reduced for "fanciful reasons" but only after adequate justification. img class="border-1-mrg-rb7-j" style="display: none" alt="" hspace="12" src="http:..

Satyam Computer Services Limited founder B Ramalinga Raju and his cohorts created Super User ID to siphon off more than one billion dollars, according to Central Bureau of Investigation probing India’s biggest Corporate fraud. Surreptitiously incorporating a subroutine in the source code of to Invoice Management System (IMS), Raju and his gang of five hid 7561 invoices..