Top Law News Rapes expose police failure: Human Rights Watch April 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The brutal rape of a five-year-old girl here “has again exposed the failure of police training and reform in India”, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday. “Enacting strong laws are simply a first step but it needs the government to focus urgently on implementation if it is serious about protecting children and other victims of […] Read more » Rapes expose police failure
Top Law News 13-year-old gang-rape victim attempts suicide April 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A 13-year-old girl attempted suicide Saturday after being allegedly gang-raped by eight men, four of whom are known to her. She is in ICU in serious condition, the family said. Three of the accused have been arrested, police said Saturday. The girl, who was abducted March 15 by the men and released after nine days, […] Read more » 13-year-old gang-rape victim attempts suicide
Top Law News 336 percent jump in child rapes in a decade’ April 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Amid a public outcry over a brutalsexual assault on a five-year girl here, a report by rights group Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) shows there has been an increase of 336 percent in cases of child rapes from 2001-11. The ‘India’s Hell Holes: Child Sexual Assault in Juvenile Justice Homes’ report, circulated Saturday, said sexual offences against […] Read more » 336 percent jump in child rapes
Top Law News Issue guidelines on rape victims: SC April 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that the victims of sexual assault required a different kind of treatment and it was incumbent upon state governments to issue guidelines as how to deal with them. “It is an obligation on the part of the state authorities and, particularly, the director general of police and home ministry of […] Read more »
Top Law News President may form own opinion on mercy pleas: SC April 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that while the president or a governor cannot overturn its final verdict, in appropriate cases they can form an opinion whether a case is made out for grant of pardon or reprieve. An apex court bench of said: “Although he/she (president/governor) cannot overturn the final verdict of the court, […] Read more » President may form own opinion on mercy pleas
Criminal Law News Bhullar verdict may impact Assam death row convict April 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the hanging of condemned convicts is likely to impact the case of Assam’s death row murder convict Mahendra Nath Das, whose mercy plea was rejected by the president in 2011. The apex court on Friday ruled that delay in disposal of mercy petitions of death row convicts could not […] Read more » Assam death row convict Bhullar verdict
High Profile Cases Gang-rape case: Innocent boys implicated, claims counsel April 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A defence counsel representing one of the accused in the Dec 16 gang-rape case here Friday told the court that “innocent boys” had been “falsely implicated” by police in the case. “I am disturbed since December 17, when I heard that these innocent boys have been falsely implicated in the case,” said advocate Sharma while […] Read more » gang-rape case
Criminal Law News No Judicial Review of the undue delay in deciding mercy petition. April 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on No Judicial Review of the undue delay in deciding mercy petition. “If the enormity of the crime is such that a large number of innocent people are killed without rhyme or reason, then too, award of extreme penalty of death will be justified. All these factors have to be taken into consideration by the president or the governor, as the case may be, while deciding a […] Read more » undue delay in deciding mercy petition
Top Law News Six new Additional Judges in Allahabad HC April 12, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Six new Additional Judges were appointed to the Allahabad High Court today, taking the total strength to 95. A judge of the Calcutta High Court was transferred in the same capacity to the Rajasthan High Court. Rakesh Srivastava, Surya Prakash Kesarwani, Vipin Sinha, Karuna Nand Bajpayee, Manoj Kumar Gupta and Anjani Kumar Mishra have been […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Karuna Nand Bajpayee Manoj Kumar Gupta and Anjani Kumar Mishra Rakesh Srivastava Six new Additional Judges in Allahabad HC Surya Prakash Kesarwani Vipin Sinha
Criminal Law News All hopes shattered: Bhullar’s wife April 12, 2013 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on All hopes shattered: Bhullar’s wife The wife of Khalistani terrorist Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, whose plea to commute death sentence to life term was on Friday dismissed by the Supreme Court, said all her hopes have been shattered after an 18-year wait and questioned why he had been “singled out”. “The court did not consider our point. We were hopeful that […] Read more » 1993 Delhi bomb blast death penalty Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar M.S. Bitta Supreme Court Supreme Court rejection Youth Congress
Corporate Law News 3G: Centre restrained from taking steps against Vodafone, Idea April 12, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a breather for Vodafone and Idea Cellular, the Delhi High Court today restrained the Centre from taking any “coercive steps” against the telecom majors which have been asked to pay penalty of Rs 550 crore and Rs 300 crore respectively for providing 3G services outside their circles without requisite licences. Justice Rajiv Shakdher, referring […] Read more » 3g 3G spectrum 3G: Centre restrained from taking steps against Vodafone and Idea Justice Rajiv Shakdher lawyer Mukul Rohatgi Senior advocates A M Singhvi and Maninder Singh
Criminal Law News SC seeks states’ stands on Police Complaint Authority April 12, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Marathi author and Padma Shri awardee Laxman Mane, booked in half a dozen separate alleged rape cases, has moved the Bombay High Court urging quashing of the charges. Mane filed the petition yesterday and the matter would be heard next week, court sources said. After a fortnight, Mane had on April 8 surrendered before Satara […] Read more » 63-year-old writer-cum social activist Laxman Mane Bombay High Court Laxman Mane Marathi author and Padma Shri awardee Laxman Mane SC seeks states' stands on Police Complaint Authority