Criminal Law News Brothers arrested for raping minor sent to JC February 13, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A youth and his cousin have been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days who were arrested for allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl since December 2011 after befriending her on a social networking site. Metropolitan Magistrate Gaurav Rao sent 24-year-old Rajesh Singh and his cousin Naveen Singh, 22, arrested on the night of December 31, […] Read more » cousin Naveen Singh Delhi Police FIR IPC judicial custody judicial custody for 14 days Metropolitan magistrate Gaurav Rao Rajesh Singh rape rape in delhi rape of minor raping a 17 year old girl section 34 (common intention) of the IPC section 509 (making gestures with an intent to insult a woman) sections 376 (rape) social networking site Tihar Jail
Criminal Law News HC upholds 7 yr sentence to man for raping February 13, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Seven year imprisonment has been awarded to a man by the Delhi High Court for raping his minor step daughter who became pregnant, accepting the argument that sole testimony of the victim needs no corroboration. Justice SP Garg dismissed the appeal filed by Deepak, a resident from Saraswati Vihar area in North West Delhi, against the trial court’s […] Read more » Delhi High Court Justice SP Garg rape rape case in delhi rape of minor Saraswati Vihar area in North West Delhi section 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC sections 376 (rape) Seven year imprisonment Seven year jail sole testimony
Criminal Law News Court summons Sanjay Dutt in threat case February 13, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Actor Sanjay Dutt has been summoned by the local court on March 1 in a criminal case filed by producer Shakeel Noorani who has alleged he got threat calls from the underworld at Dutt’s behest. However, actor’s lawyer Rizwan Merchant denied that threat calls were made at Dutt’s behest and said they would put up their […] Read more » Actor Sanjay Dutt criminal case criminal intimidation IMPPA Indian Motion Picture Producer Jaan Ki Baazi lawyer Rizwan Merchant Metropolitan Magistrate's Court at suburban Andheri Movie Jaan Ki Baazi Noorani's film Jaan Ki Baazi Pakistan Pakistan visit producer Shakeel Noorani Sanjay Dutt Sanjay Dutt in threat case Shakeel Noorani summon to sanjay dutt threat case
Criminal Law News High Court upholds life sentence for mother who killed child February 13, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The life imprisonment imposed by a lower court on a young woman who jumped from the terrace of her house along with her 15-day old baby with a view to kill the child and herself in this matter the Bombay High Court has upheld. However, finding the infant still alive, the mother stabbed the infant […] Read more » Bombay High Court infant with a kitchen knife justices Sadhana Jadhav kitchen knife life imprisonment mother who killed child Savita Bhosale VK Tahilramani Yerwada prison
Criminal Law News High Court stays trial court summons against MP, his brother February 9, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The summons issued by the trial court against Congress MP Mahabal Mishra and his brother has been stayed by the Delhi High Court for their alleged role in the kidnapping and rape of a minor girl in 2006. The relief came hours after a fast-track court in Dwarka issued fresh summons directing Mishra, West Delhi MP from and his family […] Read more » Congress MP Mahabal Mishra Delhi High Court Delhi Police Devender fast-track court in Dwarka High Court kidnapping and rape of a minor girl Mahabal Mishra Pradeep Sehrawat Satinder Sunil Surendra trial court West Delhi locality West Delhi MP
Criminal Law News Five-month-old Radha is dead February 6, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Five-month-old Radha, who had sustained severe injuries after her father, in a drunken fit, chewed off her nose and lips Jan 25, died in a hospital here Wednesday. Last week, plastic surgery was conducted on Radha. Doctors failed to save her as her condition suddenly worsened Wednesday morning. She was kept in an incubator, but […] Read more » bronchial tubes charges under Indian Penal Code chewed off her nose Indian Penal Code lips plastic surgery Siyana village of Bikaner district in Rajasthan SMS Hospital state government-run SMS
Criminal Law News Supreme Court: death penalty for kidnapping, killing child February 6, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A man hailing from Tamil Nadu, who kidnapped and strangulated a seven-year old boy to death in 2009 when Rs five lakh ransom was not paid for his release, lost out today in the Supreme Court which upheld the death sentence slapped on him by lower courts. Refusing to show mercy, a bench of […] Read more » \ J S Khehar death in 2009 human condonation justices P Sathasivam Karkudal village in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu Madras High Court murder of a child Tamil Nadu
Criminal Law News NIA opposes Sadhvi Pragya Singh’s bail February 6, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment National Investigation Agency, probing the 2008 Malegaon bomb blasts case, on Tuesday told the Bombay High Court that it was opposing the bail plea of prime accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur who has sought the relief on medical ground. Sadhvi who was diagnosed with cancer in 2012 had sought bail on medical ground to undergo […] Read more » 2008 Malegaon bomb blasts case Bombay High Court High Court Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit Maharashtra ATS National Investigation Agency NIA relief on medical ground Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur Sadhvi Pragya Singh's bail
Criminal Law News Court frames charges against Delhi gang-rape accused February 2, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The fast-track court on Saturday framed charges against the five Delhi gang-rape accused. The trial in Nirbhaya gang-rape case will begin from Monday. The accused will now face trial for which maximum sentence is death. The five men brutally assaulted and gang-raped a young woman in Delhi on December 16, who died 13 days later in Singapore. […] Read more » bleeding charges against Delhi gang-rape accused Delhi gang-rape accused Fast track court gang-raped a young woman in Delhi Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) naked Nirbhaya gang-rape case shivering Tihar Central Jail
Criminal Law News Court frames charges against Delhi gang-rape accused February 2, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The fast-track court on Saturday framed charges against the five Delhi gang-rape accused. The trial in Nirbhaya gang-rape case will begin from Monday. The accused will now face trial for which maximum sentence is death. The five men brutally assaulted and gang-raped a young woman in Delhi on December 16, who died 13 days later in Singapore. […] Read more » bleeding charges against Delhi gang-rape accused Delhi gang-rape accused Fast track court gang-raped a young woman in Delhi Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) naked Nirbhaya gang-rape case shivering Tihar Central Jail
Corporate Law News Criminal Law News Gopal Ansal seeks clubbing of trial in two criminal cases February 2, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Real estate baron Gopal Ansal, one of the convicts in the 1997 Uphaar fire tragedy case, moved a plea in a Delhi court seeking clubbing of two other pending criminal cases against him. Ansal, in an application filed before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Gautam Manan, has sought joint trials in two separate FIRs lodged, in […] Read more » 1997 Uphaar fire tragedy case criminal cases Gopal Ansal Krishnamurthy President of Association of Victims of Uphaar Tragedy Real estate baron Gopal Ansal Tilak Marg police station Uphaar case
Criminal Law News Family Law News Delhi High Court acquits 3 on death row for burning woman January 30, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A man, his son and daughter, have been acquitted by the Delhi High Court from the sentence of death by a Sessions court last year for burning alive his daughter-in-law to corner her property. A bench of justices Gita Mittal and JR Midha acquitted East Delhi resident Gulbeg Ali, his son Zulfikar Ali and daughter Kumari Mubin […] Read more » burning alive Delhi High Court sentence of death Sessions court Supreme Court judgements