New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has quashed an FIR lodged against an Associate Professor of Lakshmibai College over allegations of assault and caste-based abuse, observing that allegations of caste-based humiliation were introduced as an “afterthought” and lacked the essential ingredients required to invoke provisions of the SC/ST Act.Allowing a writ petition filed by Ranjit Kaur, a single-judge Bench of Justice Neena Bansal Krishna set aside an FIR registered in 2021 at Bhar…
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New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) The Delhi High Court dismissed an appeal filed by the city police against the acquittal of a man accused of molestation, ruling that the prosecution failed to prove the case beyond reasonable doubt and that the trial court’s assessment of evidence contained no infirmity. A single-judge Bench of Justice Neena Bansal Krishna upheld the 2016 sessions court judgment acquitting the accused of charges under Sections 354 and 509 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in an FIR registe…
New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has quashed an FIR in a matrimonial dispute, ruling that the allegations of cruelty and breach of trust were “vague, omnibus, and generic” and amounted to an abuse of law. A single-judge Bench of Justice Neena Bansal Krishna allowed a plea filed by a husband and his father seeking quashing of an FIR registered at Hauz Khas police station under Sections 498A, 406, and 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on the basis of a complaint lodged by the wife….