Legal Articles Section 357A(4) CrPC Is A Substantive Provision; Victims Entitled To Compensation Even For Crimes That Occurred Prior To Its Enactment: Kerala HC December 29, 2020 | Leave a Comment In a latest, landmark, learned and laudable judgment titled District Collector Alappuzha v. District Legal Service Authority, Alappuzha and others in WP (C) No. 7250 of 2014 (E) delivered just recently on December 22, 2020, the Kerala High Court has held that the provisions in Section 357A(1)(4)&(5) CrPC are substantive in character and the victims […] Read more » Kerala HC Section 357A(4) CrPC Is A Substantive Provision Victims Entitled To Compensation Even For Crimes That Occurred Prior To Its Enactment
Legal Articles Once A Prisoner Obtains Custody Parole In A Case, He Need Not Obtain Permission From Every Court Where He Has Been Convicted Or Is Pending Trial: Delhi HC December 27, 2020 | Leave a Comment It has to be said with consummate ease that in a remarkable, righteous and recent decision titled Mohd Shahabuddin vs State Govt Of NCT Delhi & Anr in W.P. (CRL) 1558/2020 & Crl. M.A. No.14691/2020 delivered just recently on December 2, 2020, the Delhi High Court has while espousing the basic legal rights of a […] Read more » Custody Parole In A Case Delhi HC Prisoner Obtains Custody Parole
Legal Articles Expressing Dissent Hallmark Of Democracy: Allahabad High Court Quashes FIR For Tweets Against UP CM December 27, 2020 | Leave a Comment It is really so rejoicing, refreshing and remarkable that the Allahabad High Court while once again vindicating its impeccable track record of always espousing most vociferously the invaluable importance of dissent in a democratic country like India has in a latest, laudable, landmark, lambasting and learned judgment titled Yashwant Singh vs State of U.P. and […] Read more » Expressing Dissent Hallmark Of Democracy
Legal Articles Desist From Undertaking ‘Two Finger Test’, Avoid Disclosing Rape Survivors Identity: J&K HC Directs Trial Courts December 27, 2020 | Leave a Comment In a well-written, well-articulated, well-analysed and well-reasoned judgment titled State of J & K V/s Md. Imran Khan in SLA No. 38/2018 delivered as recently as on 24 December 2020, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court while reminding the mandate of Section 228A of the J&K Ranbir Penal Code directed the Trial Courts of the […] Read more » Avoid Disclosing Rape Survivors Identity Two Finger Test of rape survivor
Legal Articles Why Maharashtra Has Maximum Benches And UP Has Minimum Benches? December 27, 2020 | Leave a Comment It is most baffling to see that a peaceful, one of the most developed and most prosperous state like Maharashtra has 4 high court benches at Panaji, Nagpur, Aurangabad and Kolhapur apart from High Court at Mumbai but on the contrary UP which has maximum pending cases in India among all the states which is […] Read more » Maharashtra Has Maximum Benches UP Has Minimum Benches
Legal Articles Clean Road Outside Police Station For A Week : Karnataka High Court Asks Station House Officer As Punishment For Failing To Register FIR December 24, 2020 | Leave a Comment It goes without saying that the single biggest problem faced by a victim when he/she suffers due to some crime committed against him/her is lodging of FIR in the police station. What is worst is that no government whether in the Centre or in the State has ever cared to enact the most strict law […] Read more » Clean Road Outside Police Station For A Week Karnataka High Court Punishment For Failing To Register FIR
Legal Articles Punjab & Haryana HC Sets Aside Moratorium Imposed By Bar Council Of India On Opening Of New Law Colleges December 24, 2020 | Leave a Comment In a latest, learned, laudable, landmark and lambasting judgment titled Chandigarh Educational Society vs Bar Council of India and others in CWP No. 7441 of 2020 (O&M) delivered just recently on 4 December 2020 by a single Judge Bench of Justice Rekha Mittal of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, it has set aside the […] Read more » Moratorium Imposed By Bar Council Of India Moratorium Imposed By Bar Council Of India On Opening Of New Law Colleges Punjab & Haryana HC Punjab & Haryana HC Sets Aside Moratorium Imposed By Bar Council Of India
Legal Articles Measures Needed For Expeditious Disposal Of Criminal Appeals In Which Appellants Are Still In Custody: Orissa High Court December 24, 2020 | Leave a Comment It is a matter of grave concern that the Orissa High Court in a latest, learned, landmark and laudable judgment titled Shyam Sundar Jena vs State of Orissa in JCRLA No. 73 of 2006 has expressed its mounting concern regarding the inordinate delay in disposal of the appeals. The Bench of Justice SK Mishra and […] Read more » Disposal Of Criminal Appeals In Which Appellants Are Still In Custody Justice Savitri Ratho Justice SK Mishra Measures Needed For Expeditious Disposal Of Criminal Appeals Orissa High Court
Legal Articles NSA Detention – Legal Obligation In Such Cases Must Be Discharged With Great Sense Of Responsibility: Orissa HC December 23, 2020 | Leave a Comment It is quite refreshing, rejuvenating and rejoicing to see that the Orissa High Court has just recently in a latest, landmark, laudable and learned judgment titled Sk. Mabud @ Mamud @ Madud v. State of Odisha & another in W.P. (CRL.) NO. 82 OF 2020 delivered on […] Read more » NSA Detention Orissa High Court
Legal Articles Encroachment Of Public Land In The Garb Of A Place For Worship Ought To Be Discouraged: Delhi HC December 23, 2020 | Leave a Comment In a latest, landmark, laudable and learned judgment titled Bal Bhagwan vs Delhi Development Authority in CM(M) 416/2019 delivered just recently on December 18, 2020 while dismissing a suit filed by a temple manager seeking permanent injunction against the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) from forcefully dispossessing him from 4 temple properties built on public land, […] Read more » Delhi HC Encroachment Of Public Land In The Garb Of A Place For Worship Encroachment Of Public Land In The Garb Of A Place For Worship Ought To Be Discouraged
