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Nirbhaya Case: Plea Moved In Delhi HC Seeking NHRC Inquiry Into Alleged Torture Against The Convicts
A plea has been moved in Delhi High Court seeking court's direction to National Human Rights Commission to conduct an inquiry into the physical and mental conditions of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya rape case. Moved by activist A Rajarajan, the petition wants National Human Rights Commission to intervene and enquire about the physical and mental conditions of the four death convicts with...
[Shyamamaadhavam] Kerala HC Stays Granting Of Njanappana Award To Poet Prabhavarma [Read Order]
The Kerala High Court has stayed the granting of Njanappana award to poet Prabha Varma, the author of Syama Madhavam. Shyamamaadhavam, described as a novel in verse, is a 15-part poem that captures the thoughts and images that pass through Krishna's mind as he lies dying, hit by a hunter's arrow. Prabha Varma had won Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for Shyama Madhavam in 2016. On a writ...
No Protection For Married Live In Partners, Holds Allahabad HC [Read Judgment]
The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday held that where a man and a woman, during the subsistence of their marriages to other persons, reside as a live in couple, they will not be entitled to any protection under the law. While dismissing the writ petition moved by a live in couple, who "candidly" stated that they had married to other persons but they now lived with each other, the...
Gauhati HC Sets Aside Ex Parte Order Of Foreigners Tribunal Declaring A Person As Foreigner [Read Order]
Noticing that a Foreigner Tribunal had declared a person as 'foreigner' without serving noticing on him, the Guahati High Court intervened to set aside that order.This happened in the case Sahinur Islam vs Union of India, which was a writ petition filed against the ex parte order passed by Foreigners Tribunal, Jorhat on April 6, 2010.The petitioner, Sahinur Islam, submitted that the order...
Offences Under SC/ST Act Is Made Out When Offence Is Perpetrated In Public: Allahabad HC [Read Judgment]
The Allahabad High Court has held that for constituting an offence under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, the alleged offence should have been committed in "public view". The single-Judge bench comprising Justice Ram Krishna Gautam clarified that where a person is allegedly insulted for being a member of the SC/ST community behind...
Criminal Trial : Delhi HC Sets Aside Trial Court Order Which Misread Direction For 'Addition' Of Charge As 'Replacement' Of Charge
Through a significant ruling, the Delhi High Court has clarified that there is a difference between "addition" of charge and "alteration" of charge under Section 216 of CrPC. The order passed by Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri states that when the High Court had, in a criminal revision petition, directed the trial court to add the charge under Section 304B of IPC against the accused,...
Plea In Jharkhand HC Challenging Section 64 Of CrPC As Gender Discriminatory [Read Petition]
Two students of NUSRL, Ranchi have moved the Jharkhand High Court challenging Section 64 of CrPC, on the basis of it being a gender biased provision. Section 64 states "Where the person summoned cannot, by the exercise of due diligence, be found, the summons may be served by leaving one of the duplicates for him with some adult male member of his family residing with him, and the...
Targeting of Public Officers Lowers Public Confidence In Police's Ability: Delhi Court Denies Bail To Anti-CAA Protestor [Read Order]
A Delhi Court has refused to grant bail to ex-Congress municipal counselor Ishrat Jahan, who was arrested in connection with protests carried out in the northeast districts of New Delhi. ASJ Naveen Gupta at Karkardooma Court has rejected the bail application of the said accused by noting that: 'When the protectors of law are targeted in the manner as reflected in present FIR and that...
JNU Sedition Case : Delhi Govt Grants Sanction To Prosecute Kanhaiya Kumar And 2 Others
In a significant development, the Delhi Government on Friday night granted sanction to prosecute former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union leader Kanhaiya Kumar and two others in a case of alleged sedition for raising anti-national slogans during a protest march in JNU during February 2016.The Delhi police had submitted chargesheet in the case in January 2019, nearly three years after...
CBI vs CBI: There Was Clinching Evidence Against Rakesh Asthana, Ex-Investigating Officer Tells Court
A Delhi court was informed Friday that there were "clinching evidence" against former CBI special director Rakesh Asthana in a bribery case in which he was recently given a clean chit by the agency.Special CBI judge Sanjeev Aggarwal was told by Ajay Kumar Bassi, the former investigating officer (IO) in the case, that the current IO, Satish Dagar, was trying to "save" Asthana and other...
SC Calls For Measures To Improve Delhi Water Quality After BIS Raises Concerns [Read BIS Report]
The Supreme Court on Friday requested the Bureau of Indian Standards to suggest measures to improve the quality of water supplied in Delhi.This was after the BIS submitted an affidavit stating that the pipe water supply in Delhi was not conforming to the required ISO standards.It was submitted by Advocate Vipin Nair on behalf of BIS that almost all samples taken from the 11 separate customer...