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Hanif Khan @ Annu Khan Vs Central Bureau Of Narcotics though Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act carries reverse burden of proof, it does not absolve the prosecution from establishing a...Hits: 9910
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Chidambaram Getting No Respite From Courts
P Chidambaram has been refused anticipatory bail by the Delhi High Court just recently in INX Media Scam Case pertaining to corruption and money laundering.Hits: 98513 -
Delhi HC Refuses Anticipatory Bail To P Chidambaram In INX Media Scam Case
It is really astonishing to learn that the former Finance Minister of India who is also an eminent and senior Supreme Court lawyer – P Chidambaram has been refused anticipatory bail by the Delhi...Hits: 6614 -
Victim Has A Right To Assist The Court In A Trial Before The Magistrate: SC
Amir Hamza Shaikh v/s Maharashtra the time tested legal position that though the Magistrate is not bound to grant permission to a victim to conduct prosecution at the mere asking but the victim has...Hits: 6658 -
Evidence of A Solitary Witness In A Criminal Trial Requires Heightened Scrutiny: SC
Jagdish and another vs The State of Haryana rightly reiterated like many times in the past that the evidence of a solitary witness in a criminal trial requires heightened scrutiny. It is not that...Hits: 9113 -
No Room For Sympathy While Sentencing Terror Convicts: SC
Union of India Vs Yasmeen Mohammad Zahid that there can be no room for sympathy while sentencing terror convicts restored the sentence of seven years imprisonment awarded to a woman, Yasmeen who...Hits: 5658 -
Interest of Victim And Society At Large Must Also Be Kept In View While Sentencing: SC
Suryakant Balurao @ Ramrao Phad vs Maharashtra Interest of victim and society at large must also be kept in view while sentencingHits: 6149 -
Right To Get Anticipatory Bail Is Not Any Fundamental Right: Punjab and Haryana High Court
Sanjeev Sharma vs Haryana held loud and clear that right to get anticipatory bail is not any fundamental right.Hits: 11717 -
Harendra Bahadur vs U.P. held that plea for anticipatory bail is not maintainable before High Court without approaching Sessions Court unless there are special reasons.Hits: 13794
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Protest Petition by Complainant under 154 CRPC
can complainant file protest petition if FIR registered under 154 crpcHits: 19912 -
Christopher Raj Vs K Vijayakumar the Supreme Court has observed that the High Court in a criminal appeal cannot reverse the acquittal without affording any opportunity of hearing to the accused or...Hits: 8346
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Basic Principles of Victims of Crime with including the challenges and current scenario in India
The Declaration of Basic Principles for Justice of Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power including the current situation of victims of crime at each stage of the criminal process in India along with...Hits: 76039 -
UAPA: SC Dismisses PFI Leader's Plea Seeking Discharge In RSS Worker Murder Case
Asim Shariff Vs National Investigation Agency has dismissed an appeal filed by a Popular Front of India leader Asim Shariff accused in the murder of a RSS worker Rudresh in Karnataka.Hits: 77213 -
Absolute Liability In Indian Context
This article analyses the doctrine of absolute liability and its transitional growth from common law to the contemporary times. the article also discusses landmark judgements concerning absolute...Hits: 23539 -
How To Record The Evidence of Deaf And Dumb Rape Victim - Bombay High Court
Hanumant v/s Maharashtra - how to record the evidence of deaf and dumb rape victim. It has also remanded the rape case to the Trial Court on the ground that evidence of deaf and dumb victim was...Hits: 11574 -
If we don’t get justice as per rule of law we shall be committing suicide
If we don’t get justice as per rule of law we shall be committing suicide and we have communicated this to President, CJI and individually all judges of SCHits: 17747 -
Magistrate Cannot Suo Motu Direct Further Investigation After Discharging The Accused: SC
Bikash Ranjan Rout v. State that a Magistrate has no jurisdiction to suo motu pass an order for further investigation/reinvestigation after he discharges the accused.Hits: 50034 -
Sex After Obtaining Consent By False Promise To Marry Is Rape: SC
Anurag Soni v. State of Chhattisgarh has reiterated that the consent for sexual intercourse obtained by a person by giving false promise of marriage would not excuse him from rape charges.Hits: 14286 -
Swami Asimanand and others Acquitted In Samjauta Blasts Case For Want of Credible And Admissible EvidenceHits: 5845
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Adding Additional Accused To Invoke Section 319 CrPC Stronger Evidence Than Mere Probability of Complicity of A Person Required: SC stated in Sugreev Kumar v. State of PunjabHits: 13874
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SC Sets Aside Life Ban Imposed on Cricketer Sreesanth
S. Sreesanth v. The Board of Control For Cricket In India the Supreme Court set aside a life ban imposed on former Indian cricketer S Sreesanth in connection with the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal...Hits: 12388 -
Death Sentence Can Be Imposed Only When Life Imprisonment Appears To Be An Altogether Inappropriate Punishment: SCHits: 9030
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Uncivilized And Heartless Crime: SC Enhances Compensation To Acid Attack Victim
Himachal Pradesh v Vijay Kumar Supreme court held about acid attack crime that a crime of this nature does not deserve any kind of clemency.Hits: 8833 -
Even Poem Can Help Save A Death Convict From Gallows
Dnyaneshwar Suresh Borkar v Maharashtra Even poem can help save a death convict from gallows. The Apex Court has in this latest, landmark and laudable judgment commuted the death penalty of a...Hits: 7222 -
Gagan Kumar v Punjab it is a mandatory legal requirement for Magistrate to specify whether sentences awarded to an accused convicted for two or more offences, would run concurrently or consecutively.Hits: 11972
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Inability To Establish Motive In A Case Of Circumstantial Evidence Not Always Fatal: SC
Sukhpal Singh v Punjab that the inability of the prosecution to establish motive in a case of circumstantial evidence is not always fatal to the prosecution case. Importance of motive in...Hits: 11702 -
Successive Applications For Recalling Witnesses Should Not Be Encouraged
Swapan Kumar Chatterjee v CBI permitting the application filed by the prosecution for summoning a hand writing expert in a corruption case of which the trial had started in 1985. On expected lines,...Hits: 10087 -
Death Sentence Only When The Alternative Option Is Unquestionably Foreclosed
Raju Jagdish Paswan v. Maharashtra has commuted the death penalty of a man accused of rape and murder of a nine year old girl and sentenced him to 30 years imprisonment without remission.Hits: 6206 -
Nand Kishore v Madhya Pradesh has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence which was earlier confirmed by the Madhya Pradesh High Court of a convicted for the rape and murder of an...Hits: 21271
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Rajesh v State of Haryana conviction under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code (Abetment of Suicide) is not sustainable on the allegation of harassment without there being any positive action...Hits: 31346
