Legal Articles UP Needs More High Court Benches December 31, 2020 by Sanjeev Sirohi | Leave a Comment It cannot be disputed by anyone that if more high court benches are created all over India as was very rightly recommended by the 230th report of Law Commission of India in 2009, it will certainly produce more diamonds like the Chief Justice of India designate Sharad Arvind Bobde […] Read more » UP Needs More High Court Benches
Legal Articles POCSO – Victims Entitled To Receive Information About Court Proceedings Including Status Of Bail Of Accused: J&K HC December 30, 2020 by Sanjeev Sirohi | Leave a Comment In a latest, landmark, learned and laudable judgment titled Badri Nath Vs Union Territory of J&K th. Police Station Bari Brahamana in Bail App No. 139/2020, CrlM Nos. 1444/2020 & 1445/2020 delivered as recently as on 11 December 2020, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court has held in no uncertain terms that the […] Read more » J&K HC POCSO Victims Entitled To Receive Information About Court Proceedings Including Status Of Bail
Legal Articles Purpose Of Rehabilitative Sentencing Is To Reform The Offender As A Law Abiding Citizen Again: Bombay HC Grants Bail To 20-year-old Boy In POCSO Case December 30, 2020 by Sanjeev Sirohi | Leave a Comment In a landmark, learned, laudable and latest judgment titled Shubham Suresh Thorat Vs The State Of Maharashtra in Criminal Bail Application (ST) No. 3242 of 2020 decided on 22 December 2020, the Bombay High Court commendably granted bail to a 20-year-old boy accused under the Protection of Children From Sexual Offences Act observing that the […] Read more » Bail To 20-year-old Boy In POCSO Case Bombay HC Law Abiding Citizen Purpose Of Rehabilitative Sentencing Is To Reform The Offender
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 by Sanjeev Sirohi | 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 Supreme Court issues show-cause notice to convict for misleading it to get favourable order December 27, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has issued a show-cause notice to a convict for misleading it by producing a wrong copy of a trial court’s verdict to get a favourable order which had allowed him to walk free on payment of a fine only in a graft case. The top court, while issuing the notice to convict […] Read more » show-cause notice to convict for misleading it to get favourable order Supreme Court issues show-cause notice to convict for misleading it to get favourable order
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 by Sanjeev Sirohi | 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 by Sanjeev Sirohi | 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 by Sanjeev Sirohi | 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 by Sanjeev Sirohi | 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 by Sanjeev Sirohi | 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
