Bengaluru, July 2 (IANS) In a significant development, the Karnataka High Court has stayed the Congress government’s decision to withdraw prosecution in 52 criminal cases, including those arising out of the riots at the Aland Ladle Mashak Dargah in Aland taluk of Kalaburagi district.The interim order came on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Girish Bharadwaj, challenging the State Cabinet’s May 22 decision to withdraw the cases. Siddaramaiah was the Chief Minister then.A Division Bench…
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New Delhi, July 1 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the mere failure of an investigating agency to file additional copies of a charge sheet, as required under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), would not entitle an accused to default bail if the charge sheet itself has been filed within the statutory period.A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and NK Singh held that the right to default bail under Section 187(3) of the BNSS arises only when the investigating agency fails t…
Bhopal, June 26 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh govt will organise a one-day state-level workshop on the Interoperable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) in Bhopal on June 28 to strengthen the implementation of the country’s three new criminal laws and improve coordination among agencies involved in the criminal justice system. The workshop will be held at Kushabhau Thakre Auditorium (Minto Hall) from 9.30 a.m.Senior police officers from all districts, judges, and senior officials from the prosecution, prison…
New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) Invoking its extraordinary powers under Article 142 of the Constitution to ensure “complete justice”, the Supreme Court has set aside the conviction of a man sentenced under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act after taking note of subsequent developments, including his marriage with the victim after both attained majority and a settlement arrived at between them. A bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and Atul S. Chandurkar allowed the appeal filed b…
Patna, June 2 (IANS) A Vaishali court on Tuesday pronounced the sentence in a sensational 34-year-old assault case, awarding a three-year prison term to the main accused, 85-year-old Deepa Rai, while sentencing four other convicts to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment each. The judgment was delivered by the court of the Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADJ-I) Manoj Kumar Tiwari.The court had convicted the accused on May 26 and reserved its decision on sentencing, which was announced on Tue…
Patna, June 1 (IANS) A court in Bihar’s Begusarai on Monday continued relief to Union Textile Minister and MP Giriraj Singh in a case linked to his “Do Gaz Zameen” remark during the 2019 Lok Sabha election campaign.Hearing the matter, the MP-MLA Court allowed the anticipatory bail earlier granted to Singh to remain in force, while reserving its order on his plea seeking exemption from personal appearance in future proceedings.Singh appeared before the court during his one-day visit to Begu…
New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) ‘She is no more’. These were the words of Twisha’s mother-in-law to the former actor-model’s sister-in-law, Rashi, which broke the news about her death to her kin on the evening of May 12, notes the CBI FIR registered in the case. The four words changed Twisha’s parents’ lives forever.In just 54 minutes – between 9.41 pm when Twisha spoke to her mother on a WhatsApp call and 10.35 pm when the victim’s mother-in-law, Giribala Singh, told Rashi about her deat…
Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) During the first meeting of the newly formed West Bengal cabinet, presided over by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday, a significant decision was made to allocate land for the installation of barbed fencing at the currently unfenced international border with Bangladesh to the Border Security Force (BSF), within a period of 45 days.Announcing this after the cabinet meeting, CM Adhikari said the promise to hand over land to the BSF within 45 days for the formation of …
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has refused to grant regular bail to a maulvi (cleric) accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a minor girl under the guise of spiritual treatment, observing that he had prima facie exploited the “vulnerable physical and mental condition” of the prosecutrix and the blind faith reposed in him by her family. A single-judge Bench of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, while rejecting the bail application filed by Mohd Mubarak, observed that the allegatio…
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to issue any additional directions or frame fresh guidelines to curb hate speech across the country, holding that the existing criminal law framework is adequate to address such offences. A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta dismissed a batch of petitions seeking further judicial intervention against communal hate speeches, including matters arising from incidents such as alleged “Corona Jihad” campaigns, “UPSC…