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"Accused Has Right To Hearing Of His Bail Application" Supreme Court Expresses Shock Over Bail Plea Not Being Listed For A Year
Supreme Court has on Tuesday observed that the accused has a right of hearing of his application for bail and denial of the same is an infringement of his right and liberty."The accused has a right to hearing of his application for bail. In fact, the denial of hearing is an infringement of right and liberty assured to an accused." the Bench said.While observing that the Court normally does...
Transfer Power Must Be Exercised Rarely As It Reflects On Judge's Conduct: Siddharth Luthra Tells Calcutta High Court In Narada Case
Opposing CBI's application for transfer of Narada Case, Senior Advocate Siddharth Luthra today argued before the Calcutta High Court that power to transfer under Section 406-409 of CrPC is not to be exercised lightly because it has a "reflection on the conduct of a judicial officer, functionality of the justice system". CBI moved the High Court seeking transfer of Trial proceedings...
Breaking: Delhi Police Moves Supreme Court Against High Court Orders Granting Bail To Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal And Asif Iqbal Tanha
Delhi Police has approached the Supreme Court challenging the Delhi High Court Judgments granting Bail to Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal And Asif Iqbal Tanha in the Delhi Riots Case. The Delhi High Court in its judgments dated 15th June found that offences under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) are not made out prima facie against student leaders Asif Iqbal Tanha, Natasha...
Supreme Court Dismisses Devas Multimedia's Plea To Restrain Liquidator In Matter Against ISRO-Arm Antrix
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the plea filed by Devas Multimedia seeking directions to restrain the liquidator from taking any steps with regard to the pending arbitration proceedings before the Delhi High Court.The plea before the Delhi High Court had been filed by Devas Multimedia for the enforcement of an award for $562.5 million, plus interest. However, on 25th May, the...
"Petitions Filed Reek Of Political Motivation"; State of West Bengal Submits To Supreme Court In West Bengal Post-Poll Violence Cases
"The petitions reek of political motivation and are not maintainable", the West Bengal Government has submitted to the Supreme Court in its Counter-Affidavit filed in the petitions seeking SIT/CBI probe in the West Bengal Post-Poll Violence.PETITIONERS HAVE NO LOCUS STANDI The Counter-Affidavit dissects the locus standi of each and every Petitioner and submits that they are in one way...
West Bengal Post Poll Violence: Supreme Court Adjourns Plea For SIT Probe On Killings Of 2 BJP Workers To June 18
The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned to June 18th, the plea filed seeking CBI/SIT probe into the killings of two BJP activists allegedly at the instance of Trinamool Congress leaders during the post-poll violence.A division Bench of Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice MR Shah decided to hear the matter on June 18th, after a request regarding the same was made by Solicitor General...
'Terrorist Acts' Under UAPA Only Deal With Matters Impacting 'Defence Of India' And Not Ordinary Law & Order Problems : Delhi High Court
"In our opinion, the intent and purport of the Parliament in enacting the UAPA, and more specifically in amending it in 2004 and 2008 to bring terrorist activity within its scope, was, and could only have had been, to deal with matters of profound impact on the 'Defence of India', nothing more and nothing less"
Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Option Of Alternate Attempt For Candidates Failing To Appear In CA Examination 2021; Formulation Of SOP Guidelines Across India
A plea has been moved in the Supreme Court seeking directions to the Centre and Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to formulate revised Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to be adopted in the examination centres across India for the candidates appearing in the CA Examination 2021 scheduled to be held in the month of July. Moved by 22 CA candidates appearing in the...
"Direction To Take Accused Into Custody Is Beyond Jurisdiction Of High Court, It is For The Investigating Agency To Decide": Supreme Court
Direction to take accused into custody is beyond jurisdiction of High Court; it is for Investigating Agency to take a call whether to arrest or not', Supreme Court has recently observed."We are approving the entire judgement of the High Court except one sentence- Only in so far as there is a positive direction to the Investigating Officer to arrest the petitioner, we are only setting...
Dramatic Twists Of Enrica Lexie-Italian Marines Case : A Time Line Of 9 Years
The highly sensational Enrica Lexie -Italian Marines case relating to the killing of two Indian fishermen in a sea-firing incident nine years ago, which at one point sparked off diplomatic frictions between India and Italy, has attained a peaceful burial, at least as far as local proceedings are concerned.The Supreme Court today quashed the criminal cases against the two Italian...
Police Custody Is Not Permissible After Submission Of Charge Sheet: Sr Adv Siddharth Luthra Argues Before Calcutta High Court In Narada Case
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday continued its hearing in the Narada case, in which the CBI has sought to transfer the trial and to declare that the hearing in the trial court on May 17 - which led to bail being granted to four TMC leaders - was vitiated on account of mob pressure. A 5-Judge Bench comprising of Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal, and Justices IP Mukherjee,...