New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Reiterating that the right to a speedy trial is a fundamental guarantee under Article 21 of the Constitution, the Supreme Court has granted bail to an accused in a murder case who had remained in custody for nearly four years without examination of a single witness. A Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Vijay Bishnoi passed the order while allowing a special leave petition (SLP) filed by Sahil Manoj Machare, challenging a Bombay High Court order that had denied him bail …
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New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) The Supreme Court has suspended the life sentence of a man convicted of murdering his wife and granted him bail, observing that the case rests entirely on circumstantial evidence and that the appeal pending before the Madhya Pradesh High Court is unlikely to be heard in the near future. A bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K.V. Viswanathan was hearing a Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by Shivendra challenging an order of the high court, which had declined to suspe…
New Delhi, Jan 19 (IANS) The Supreme Court has quashed criminal proceedings against a Bihar man accused under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, holding that mere presence at the spot and vague allegations are insufficient to put him on trial.A Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Alok Aradhe set aside an order of the Patna High Court, which had refused to interfere with the cognisance and summoning order passed by a trial court in Bhagalpur.Allowing the ap…
New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) The Income Tax Department has revived the assessment proceedings against Tiger Global following the favourable Supreme Court judgment on the capital gains tax that has to be paid by the US equity investor on the sale of Flipkart shares to American retail giant Walmart for Rs 14,500 crore.A senior official told IANS that the Income Tax Department has already withheld approximately Rs 967.52 crore as tax deducted at source, under Section 241A, for which the company had cla…