Criminal Law News PWD JE gets seven-yr jail for rape of woman employee January 28, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment An engineer of Public Works Department (PWD), who developed intimacy with a woman employee after falsely promising to marry her and fathered twin daughters, has been awarded seven years jail term by a Delhi Court on rape charges. While sentencing Delhi resident Akshay Kumar, Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat said the convict “sexually victimised” the […] Read more » rape of woman employee
Criminal Law News Uber rape case: Victim’s friend says she was not drunk January 27, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The woman executive allegedly raped by Uber cab driver was not drunk on the day of the crime – Dec 5 last year, her friend told the court Tuesday. Testifying as a prosecution witness in the case, the friend denied the suggestion made by defence counsel of accused Shiv Kumar Yadav, telling Additional Sessions Judge […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja Uber rape case
Criminal Law News Delhi youth gets life term for committing unnatural offence on minor January 27, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A youth has been awarded life term for committing aggravated penetrative sexual assault on a six-year-old boy by a court, which noted that children are a “supremely important national asset” and the future of a nation depends on how they grow and develop. Additional Sessions Judge Illa Rawat sentenced Delhi resident Pankaj, who used to […] Read more » committing unnatural offence POCSO Act Protection of Children from Sexual Offences
Criminal Law News SC sets free two Italians guilty of friend’s murder January 26, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has set free two Italians, undergoing life imprisonment for murder of their friend in 2010, saying the evidence submitted by the prosecution to suggest motive does not inspire confidence. <a href=”https://jt.india.com/adlink/3.0/1191/5569816/0/165/ADTECH;cookie=info;loc=300;key=key1+key2+key3+key4;rdclick=https://adclick.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=L&ai=B5mnPskvFVO7-IpS38AXyi4H4D7ndstEHAAAAEAEg4cuYHzgAWKGW69XGAWDlwuSDpA6yARF6ZWVuZXdzLmluZGlhLmNvbboBCjI1MHgyNTBfYXPIAQnaAWNodHRwOi8vemVlbmV3cy5pbmRpYS5jb20vbmV3cy9pbmRpYS9zYy1zZXRzLWZyZWUtdHdvLWl0YWxpYW5zLWd1aWx0eS1vZi1mcmllbmRzLW11cmRlcl8xNTM1OTI5Lmh0bWypAh4OXQ6nelE-wAIC4AIA6gImLzExNDQwNDY1L1plZU5ld3NfQXJ0aWNsZXNfMjUweDI1MF9CVEb4Av_RHpADmgiYA5oIqAMB0ASQTuAEAaAGFg&num=0&sig=AOD64_32QUhr1r89mVReRZ5TeQequ1avQQ&client=ca-pub-6717584324019958&adurl=” target=”_blank”><img src=”https://jt.india.com/adserv/3.0/1191/5569816/0/165/ADTECH;cookie=info;loc=300;key=key1+key2+key3+key4″ border=”0″ width=”250″ height=”250″></a> A bench of justices A R Dave, Kurian Joseph and R Banumathi set aside the Allahabad […] Read more » Elisa Betta Bon Compagni justices A R Dave Kurian Joseph R Banumathi Tomaso Bruno
Criminal Law News HC refuses urgent hearing of PIL on Sunanda death case probe January 22, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today refused to give an urgent hearing to a plea seeking its intervention in the ongoing probe into the mysterious death of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar.A bench of justices B D Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva declined the request of NGO Anti-Corruption Front to hear the plea today saying […] Read more » PIL on Sunanda death case probe Sunanda death case
Criminal Law News Delhi court discharges Sonia’s aide V George in DA case January 21, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s close aide Vincent George was today discharged by a court here following the Delhi High Court order quashing the criminal proceedings against him in a 13-year-old disproportionate assets case. Special CBI Judge J P S Malik noted that the high court had on December 23 set aside the order of summoning […] Read more » Sonia's aide V George Special CBI Judge J P S Malik V George in DA case
Criminal Law News Conclude all female foeticide trials in 4 months: SC to Haryana January 21, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Haryana government to complete trial of cases lodged for offences of sex determination and female foeticide within four months, observing that decline in the sex ratio was “disturbing”. “Decline in sex-ratio is a disturbing problem and the same is likely to affect the civilisation in entirety. Women […] Read more » declining child sex ratio female foeticide trials foeticide trials in 4 months
Criminal Law News Scratches on Uber rape victim’s neck suggest strangulation:Doc January 20, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A doctor, who had examined the victim in the Uber cab rape case after the incident, today told a Delhi court that scratch marks were found on her neck showing an attempt was made to strangulate her.Deposing as a prosecution witness, Dr Kaveri of Bara Hindu Rao Hospital said the 25-year-old woman was brought to […] Read more » Dr Kaveri of Bara Hindu Rao Hospital Scratches on Uber rape victim's neck Uber cab rape case
Criminal Law News 2 persons sentenced to 20 years in prison for gangrape January 17, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A local court today sentenced two persons to 20 years imprisonment in a gangrape case. Additional Sessions Judge VK Singh awarded 20 years imprisonment to Virendra Soraj and Munesh, who raped a girl on March 15 last year in Kunda area here. The court also imposed fine of Rs 26,000 on each of them Read more » prison for gangrape
Criminal Law News HC to hear Jindal’s plea against news on ‘sexual assault’ January 17, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Friday posted for hearing on January 19 a plea by Congress leader and industrialist Naveen Jindal seeking a direction to restrain the media from airing the news relating to alleged sexual assault case against him and his associates. A bench of Justice Jayant Nath issued a notice to a private […] Read more » Justice Jayant Nath Naveen Jindal news related to the alleged assault Sexual assault
Consumer Law News Criminal Law News Rs 2 cr compensation to kin of youth who died in an elevator January 16, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The apex consumer commission has awarded nearly Rs two crore compensation to the father of a 25 year-old youth, who was choked to death in a defective elevator in a high-rise in Mumbai a decade ago. The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) bench, presided by Justice V K Jain, asked the owners of the […] Read more » National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission NCDRC Rs 2 cr compensation
Criminal Law News Uber cab rape case: Victim identifies driver in the court January 16, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment US-based cab service provider Uber’s driver, who is facing trial in a rape case, was on Thursday identified in a Delhi court by the victim, a 25-year-old woman executive. During the trial, which commenced on Thursday, the victim’s statement was recorded before Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja in an in-camera proceeding. The woman, who came […] Read more » Uber cab rape case
