Kochi, Feb 12 (IANS) The Kerala High Court on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkoottathil in the first of three rape cases registered against him, subject to stringent conditions.With this order, the legislator has now secured bail in all three cases. He had obtained bail earlier in the two other cases.The prosecution strongly opposed the plea, contending that the accused had mentally manipulated and sexually exploited the complainant and therefore should not be grante…
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Kozhikode, Jan 21 (IANS) The woman who shared a video accusing a man of sexual harassment on a bus — which allegedly led him to commit suicide — was arrested by police in Kerala’s Kozhikode on Wednesday. Shimjitha Mustafa was taken into custody from a relative’s home at Badagara after a case was registered against her for abetment to suicide.Her arrest came even as she approached the Kozhikode district court seeking anticipatory bail in connection with the suicide of U. Deepak, 42, who was fou…
Kochi, Jan 7 (IANS) The Kerala High Court on Wednesday extended the interim order staying the arrest of Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkoottathil in a rape case till January 21, while deferring a final decision on his plea for anticipatory bail. The court said it would hear detailed arguments on the matter on that day before taking a call on whether the legislator should be granted pre-arrest protection.During the hearing, the High Court allowed the complainant to be impleaded as a party in the anticipat…
New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court has ruled that alleged caste-based abuses hurled over the telephone, and not in any place within public view, would not prima facie attract the stringent provisions of the SC/ST Act. While disposing of an application for anticipatory bail, a single judge Bench of Justice Jay Sengupta observed that since the allegations in the FIR pertained to abuses allegedly made over a phone call, the essential ingredients of Sections 3(1)(r) and 3(1)(s) of the …