Criminal Law News Tatra case: Tejinder Singh’s bail plea dismissed, sent to jail September 2, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Lt Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh was sent to jail by a Delhi court on Monday which denied him bail in a case of alleged bribe offer to then Army Chief Gen V K Singh for clearing Tatra vehicles file, saying no “mercy” should be shown only because he was not arrested during the probe. The […] Read more » Prevention of Corruption Act Tatra case Tejinder Singh's bail plea dismissed tranche of "sub-standard" Tatra trucks
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Criminal Law News Death row convicts can be heard in open courts: SC September 2, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the review plea of a death convict against his conviction and sentence be heard in an open court by at least a three-judge bench and allowed all condemned prisoners, whose review pleas have already been decided, to approach it within a month for re-opening of their cases. In […] Read more » 1993 Mumbai serial blast convict Yakub Abdul Razak Memon Chief Justice R M Lodha favoured open court hearing death row convicts Justice J. Chelameswar Mohammed Arif
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Criminal Law News CBI files final status report on graft case against HP CM September 1, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The CBI today filed its final status report in the Delhi High Court on its probe into allegations that Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, during his earlier tenure as CM and Union Minister, was involved in graft, money laundering and forgery. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice R S Endlaw also […] Read more » Chief Justice G Rohini ' Justice R S Endlaw Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh final status report on graft case against HP CM
Criminal Law News Visva Bharati Sexual Assault Accused Sent to Police Custody September 1, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A West Bengal court Sunday sent three Visva Bharati University students, arrested for alleged sexual harassment of a female student from the northeast, to three days’ police custody, police said. “We sought seven days’ custody but the court after hearing the prosecution and defence counsel, remanded the three accused to three days’ police custody,” said […] Read more » sexual harassment of a female student from the northeast Visva Bharati University students
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Criminal Law News Nine found guilty of assaulting lawyer and his family in Himachal August 31, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Sessions Court here has sentenced nine persons, including two relatives of a Himchal Pradesh minister, to nine months imprisonment for assaulting a lawyer and his family members in 2005. Sessions Judge SC Kainthal upheld the conviction of nine persons who entered the house of advocate Bhupinder Sharma on the night of January 24, 2005 […] Read more » Nine found guilty of assaulting lawyer and his family in Himachal Sessions Judge SC Kainthal
Criminal Law News High Profile Cases Top Law News Samjhauta blast: Aseemanand granted bail August 29, 2014 / August 31, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Swami Aseemanand, one of the accused in the Samjhauta Express blast case, was on Thursday granted bail by the Punjab and Haryana High Court. A division bench comprising Justice SS Saron and Justice Liza Gill passed the orders on the application moved by the accused saint. Aseemanand was arrested by NIA on December 26, 2012 […] Read more » Aseemanand granted bail news Samjhauta blast Samjhauta Express blast case todays news todays top news Top news
Criminal Law News Top Law News Four youths jailed in robbery case August 18, 2014 / August 31, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Four youths, who robbed a photographer of his belongings including camera, cell phone and cash at knife point, have been awarded varying jail terms of seven to five years by a Delhi court which expressed concern over the deteriorating law and order situation in the city. The court observed that in the recent past, Delhi […] Read more » Four youths jailed in robbery case judge Kamini Lau news Saraswati Vihar Police Station todays news todays top news Top news
Criminal Law News Top Law News Phoolan Devi’s killer gets life imprisonment August 15, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Thirteen years after bandit-turned-politician Phoolan Devi was killed outside her official MP’s residence here, a court Thursday sentenced convict Sher Singh Rana to life for her murder. Additional Sessions Judge Bharat Parashar awarded the life term to 35-year-old Rana, and also slapped a fine of Rs.1 lakh on him. “However, keeping in view the overall facts and […] Read more » Phoolan Devi's killer
Criminal Law News Top Law News Paraskar regarded the victim as his sister: lawyer August 7, 2014 / August 7, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The lawyer of senior IPS officer Sunil Paraskar today argued that his client had once told the Mumbai-based model, who has accused him of rape, that he looked upon her as his “sister”. The sessions court here, presided over by special judge Vrushali Joshi, is hearing Paraskar’s application for pre-arrest (`anticipatory’) bail. “Paraskar wrote an […] Read more » news senior IPS officer Sunil Paraskar todays news todays top news Top news
Criminal Law News Top Law News Law cannot be used for settling scores: Court August 3, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment (IANS) A court here has pulled up a woman for filing a false complaint and said the criminal justice system should not be allowed to be used as a tool for settling scores. said: “Criminal justice system should not be permitted to be used as a tool to settle scores, ventilate vengeance and as a […] Read more » dishonour of cheque Metropolitan Magistrate Abhilash Malhotra
Criminal Law News Media & Entertainment News SC notice on hiking acid attack victims’ compensation July 26, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday issued notice to the central and state governments and union territory administrations on a plea seeking enhancement of compensation to acid attack victims from the existing Rs.3 lakh to Rs.10 lakh coupled with free medical treatment that involves a series of surgeries. The central government is not active in addressing the […] Read more » hiking acid attack victims' compensation
Criminal Law News Top Law News Five family members sentenced to life imprisonment July 20, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Five members of a family have been sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court here for murdering three brothers in Tibba Danasher locality here in 2011. The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge S K Sharma convicted a father and his four sons to life imprisonment. In the judgement delivered on Saturday, the court held Bhagwan Swarup Soni, his […] Read more » Five family members sentenced to life imprisonment
