criminal law

Lawyers, cops equally responsible for Feb 19 clash: Srikrishna New Delhi | Friday, Mar 6 2009 IST Justice B N Srikrishna, in his preliminary report on the Madras High Court lawyers-police clash submitted to the Supreme Court yesterday, has blamed both the lawyers and police for the February 19 clash. Justice Srikrishna has slammed the lawyers for behaving like hooligans in the High Court ..

SC refuses to extend stay on transfer of cases from POTA court New Delhi | Friday, Mar 6 2009 IST The Supreme Court today declined to extend the stay granted by Gujarat High Court to enable the victims of Godhra train carnage to approach the apex court. The Gujarat High Court had stayed for 15 days its order directing the transfer of those cases from POTA to sessions court in which the PO..

Court directs JS to admit accused to NIMS Vijayawada | Thursday, Mar 5 2009 IST The Vijayawada Mahila Sessions Court today directed the Chanchalguda Jail Superintendent in Hyderabad to shift Satyam Babu, the main accused in the rape and murder case of first year B-Pharmacy girl student Ayesha Meera to Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) for better treatment. Satyam Babu, who was sh..

HC DIRECTS TO LODGE FIR AGAINST ERRING PEOPLE, EVEN MINISTERS Ranchi | Thursday, Mar 5 2009 IST Jharkhand High Court today directed the state government to file FIR against ministers, officials and contractors who had taken commission for allotting road construction work at Saraikela, Kandra and Kharswan to the construction company. The Court also directed the construction company to file..

Madras HC passes strictures on police The Madras High Court came down heavily on the state police for violating its order dated February 19 and registering a case only on the burning of the police station in the premises of the high court. A division bench comprising acting Chief Justice S J Mukhopadhya, Justices V Dhanapalan and K Chandru, in their interim order on a suo motu case relatin..

SC declines to stay mafia don Babloo Srivastava conviction New Delhi | Wednesday, Mar 4 2009 IST The Supreme Court today declined to stay the conviction of mafia don Om Prakash Srivastava, alias Babloo Srivastava, who wanted to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Uttar Pradesh. Chamber Judge Justice Altmas Kabir dismissed the petition of Babloo, who is serving life imprisonment for murde..

SC grants 4 weeks to Modi govt for suggestions to SIT report 3/2/2009 The Supreme Court granted four weeks time to the Narendra Modi government to give suggestions to the report of the Special Investigation Team headed by R K Raghavan to investigate 10 major cases of the 2002 Gujarat communal riots. A special bench, comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat, P Sathasivam and Aftab Alam, adjourne..

Andhra Pradesh Police on Wednesday got a major relief from the Supreme Court which stayed the verdict of the High Court making it mandatory for registration of FIR against police officers for the death caused to any person during the discharge of official duties including encounters. A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan stayed the five-judge bench decision of the Andhra Pradesh Hi..

CBI Seeks Custody Ramalinga Raju, Four Others Hyderabad (PTI): The CBI on Tuesday moved a local court here to seek the custody of tainted Satyam Computer founder B Ramalinga Raju and four others for questioning in connection with the Rs 7,800-crore accounting scam in the IT company. "We have filed a petition in the court seeking custody of Raju brothers and other accused in the case," ..

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Feb 12 dismissed a petition challenging the Central Pota Review Committee’s recommendation of dropping POTA charges against the accused in Godhra train carnage case. With this decision, nearly 134 accused in the Godhra train burning case will not be tried under the repealed anti-terror law. Hearing the petition, the High Court division bench of Justice..

Court Ask Government For Action Plan Against Beggars New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Monday asked the government to explain why mobile magistrates were not appointed to control the menace of beggars in the city as per the court's earlier orders. A Division Bench of Justices B.D. Ahmed and P.K. Bhasin also summoned the deputy commissioner of police (crime) April 6 to inform..

Ahmedabad, 3 Mar 2009, : Gujarat high court adjourned the hearing on SIT plea for cancellation of anticipatory bail granted to state minister for women and child welfare and higher education Maya Kodnani and senior VHP functionary Jaydeep Patel. Since Kodnani's lawyers sought more time from court to file a reply to SIT's case with regard to Kodnani's involvement in 2002 riots at Naroda, the he..

ALLAHABAD, 2 Mar 2009, : When Surekha (name changed) approached the police to register a complaint against her husband's atrocities on a routine basis, the police asked her to lodge a case under the Domestic Violence Act, 2005. However, the victim insisted the police to file a case under 498 A of IPC (Dowry Act) even after 11 years of her marriage. Ironically, no case was lodged under Dome..

CHENNAI, 3 Mar 2009 : Orally cautioning the Tamil Nadu government against "playing tricks with the court," the Madras high court on Monday said that the CBI should probe the entire gamut of the February 19 violence on court campus, and not just the police version of the incidents. Making it very clear that a full bench order, delivered during the February 19 violence, alone should be the..

New Delhi, March 02: The Supreme Court has said courts cannot force a man, accused of torturing his wife for dowry, to pay maintenance to her as a condition for granting anticipatory bail in the case. Holding that such conditions are "onerous and excessive", a bench comprising Justices R V Raveendran and J M Panchal set aside a Delhi High Court order which had directed a man to pay mainte..