No Death Penalty On Persons With Mental Illness Or Developmental Or Intellectual Disabilities: World Psychiatric Association

The World Psychiatric Association in the General Assembly of its 23rd World Congress in Vienna on 30 September 2023 approved a Position Statement recommending that the death penalty should not be imposed on any person with mental illness or intellectual and developmental disabilities; and no person with mental illness or intellectual and developmental disabilities should be...

‘Half-Hearted Attempt, Based On Unfounded Assumptions’: Court Pulls Up Delhi Police For Clubbing Complaint In Delhi Riots Case

A Delhi Court yesterday pulled up the Delhi Police for clubbing a complaint in a Delhi riots case based on “unfounded assumptions” that the incident would have been caused by same accused persons. Additional Sessions Judge Pulastya Pramachala of Karkardooma Courts said that a “half-hearted attempt” was made only to show the completion of the investigation.The judge refused to club...

Does CrPC Apply To Customs Act? Supreme Court To Decide In DRI's Appeal Against Adani Enterprises

The Supreme Court on Tuesday (10 Oct) directed that the case of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence(DRI) v. Adani Enterprises Ltd would be heard along with the case of Senior Intelligence Officer v. Sanjay Agarwal where 2 questions framed earlier by the Supreme Court have relevance in the present case.Those 2 questions are as follows-Whether the Customs/DRI Officers are police officers and,...

Supreme Court Grants Bail To Amarjeet Sharma In BPSL Fraud Case

Today, a Division Bench of the Supreme Court, allowed the bail plea filed by Amarjeet Sharma, head of the Accounts Department of (Bhushan Power and Steel Ltd.) BPSL, in a case being probed by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office into the affairs of BPSL and its then group companies.While granting the bail, the Bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Sudhanshu Dhulia, imposed...

Insisting That Donor Egg Cannot Be Used For Gestational Surrogacy Is Prima Facie Against Surrogacy Rules: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has observed that insisting that only the egg and the sperm of an intending couple can be used for gestational surrogacy is prima facie against Rule 14(a) of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Rules, 2022. A new amendment introduced in March 2023 to Form 2 read with Rule 7 of the Surrogacy Rules specifies that donor eggs cannot be used for gestational surrogacy of an intending...

When PM CARES Fund Is Given CSR Benefit, Can CM Relief Fund Be Excluded? Supreme Court To Hear Rajasthan's Suit

In a significant legal development, the Supreme Court highlighted the issues for consideration in an original suit filed under Article 131 of the Constitution by the State of Rajasthan alleging discrimination in the treatment of the Chief Minister's Relief Fund for COVID-19 (CM Relief Fund) as compared to the Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situation Fund (PM...

Chandrababu Naidu's Plea : Will Remand Order Be Valid If PC Act Offences Go Due To Lack Of Sec 17A Sanction? Supreme Court Asks AP CID

The Supreme Court on Tuesday, while hearing former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu's plea, asked the Andhra Pradesh Crime Investigation Department (AP CID) whether the order of a special court remanding the legislator to custody would be valid even if the offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act do not survive or are dropped on grounds of non-compliance with the...

NewsClick Arrests: Delhi Court Remands Prabir Purkayastha, HR Head To Judicial Custody In UAPA Case

A Delhi Court on Tuesday sent NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and Human Resources head Amit Chakraborty to 10 days judicial custody in the UAPA case registered against them following allegations of the portal receiving money for pro-China propaganda.Additional Sessions Judge Hardeep Kaur of Patiala House Courts passed the order after Purkayastha and Chakraborty were produced in court...

Artist Chintan Upadhyay, 3 Others Sentenced To Life Imprisonment In Ex-Wife And Lawyer’s Double Murder Case

Mumbai Sessions Court has sentenced acclaimed artist Chintan Upadhyay to life imprisonment for conspiring and abetting the murder of his ex-wife Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer Haresh Bhambhani.Sessions Judge SY Bhosale held three other co-accused guilty for murder and sentenced them to life imprisonment as well. On December 12, 2015, a scrap dealer alerted the Kandivali police about two suspicious...

Madras High Court Tops In Virtual Hearings, Judgment Translations: Justice M Sundar Says While Inaugurating New E-Filing Software

Speaking at the inaugural function for rolling out the new E-Filing Portal Version 3.0, e-Bail Bond Module, and Digital Transmission of Trial Court Records Software, Justice M Sundar, Chairman of the Computer Committee said that Madras High Court was topping the charts with respect to virtual hearings and translation of court judgments into regional language. Relying on the...

Supreme Court Questions Gujarat Govt On Time Taken To Decide Remission Applications, Seeks Details Of Pending Petitions For Premature Release

The Supreme Court has asked the State of Gujarat to explain the time span taken to decide applications filed by prisoners seeking remission. The Court further asked the State to inform the number of petitions pending in High Courts and Supreme Court seeking premature release.A bench comprising Justices Abhay S Oka and Pankaj Mithal was hearing a writ petition filed by a prisoner...

53-Year-Old Uniform Of Kerala Women Judicial Officers Undergoes New Changes

The Kerala High Court has officially brought into effect a change in the dress code of women Judicial Officers. The uniform that had been mandated under the Circular 22/1970 which had hitherto been followed by the judicial officers in the State, is as follows: “Judicial officers, both civil and criminal (except special magistrates) shall, while presiding on the Bench, wear the...