Criminal Law News Shehla murder: Accused says BJP legislator guilty April 12, 2012 / April 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Zahida Parvez, prime accused in activist Shehla Masood’s murder, Wednesday alleged outside a CBI court in Indore that BJP legislator Dhruv Narayan Singh had “a major role” in the crime. The legislator has been questioned by CBI officials about his relations with Masood and Parvez. He refused to comment on Parvez’s charge. Parvez, an interior […] Read more » BJP legislator Dhruv Narayan Singh CBI Shehla Masood's murder Special Judge Shubra Singh
Criminal Law News Maid torture: Doctor’s wife gets bail April 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to a woman, arrested along with her doctor husband April 4 for allegedly locking up their 13-year-old maid in their house with very little food before leaving for a vacation in Thailand last month. The couple had locked up the 13-year-old girl in their flat at Dwarka in […] Read more » Delhi court Maid torture
Criminal Law News Pakistani prisoner Khalil Chisti steps out of jail April 12, 2012 / April 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Octogenarian Pakistani prisoner Mohammad Khalil Chisti, serving a life sentence for murder, stepped out of the Ajmer Central Jail in Rajasthan Wednesday on conditional bail, his family members said. “I am very happy and grateful to those who made efforts for my release. I would like to go to my home in Pakistan as soon […] Read more » Judge Kamal Prakash Saxena Octogenarian Pakistani prisoner Mohammad Khalil Chisti Rajasthan High Court Supreme Court
Criminal Law News It’s official: Modi gets clean chit in Gulberg massacre April 11, 2012 / April 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special panel probing the 2002 Gujarat riots has given a clean to Chief Minister Narendra Modi, absolving the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader of the accusation that he had a role in a case related to the communal carnage. Metropolitan magistrate M.S. Bhatt, who received the closure report of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) […] Read more » 2002 Gujarat riots 2002 Gulberg Society massacre Chief Minister Narendra Modi Metropolitan magistrate M.S. Bhatt
Criminal Law News Rs.20 lakh relief for terror suspect’s custody death April 11, 2012 / April 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In an unprecedented ruling, the Bombay High Court Tuesday awarded Rs.20 lakh compensation to the mother of Khwaja Yunus, an accused in a bomb blast in 2002 in Maharashtra who died in police custody, a lawyer said. On Jan 3, 2003, Yunus, an engineer working in Dubai, had been picked up in connection with the […] Read more » bomb blast in 2002 in Maharashtra Bombay High Court Justice A.M. Khanwilkar Justice P.D. Kode
Criminal Law News Supreme Court notice to Kerala Police on Italian ship April 11, 2012 / April 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to authorities in Kerala on a petition filed by MT Enrica Lexie — the Italian ship anchored in the high seas off the Indian coast for about two months since its involvement in the killing of two Kerala fishermen — challenging a Kerala High Court order refusing to […] Read more » advocate K K Venugopal Italian ship Justice R.M. Lodha Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Complaint against Gehlot for ‘inaction’ in Bhanwari case April 10, 2012 / April 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A complaint was filed in a court here Monday against Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot for not taking timely action against some legislators who were allegedly involved in the murder of nurse Bhanwari Devi, a lawyer said. The complaint was filed in the court of special chief judicial magistrate (CBI cases) by social activist Krishna […] Read more » Congress legislator Malkhan Singh Bishnoi lawyer A.K. Jain murder of nurse Bhanwari Devi Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna
Criminal Law News Pakistani granted bail April 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Monday granted bail to a Pakistani man accused of entering India illegally as a spy but who claims he had come back to embrace India for good as he was born in Gujarat. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav granted bail to Imraan and his wife Soofia Kanwal and asked them to prove […] Read more » " Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav Delhi court Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency wife Soofia Kanwal
Criminal Law News Maid torture: Doctor couple sent to judicial custody April 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Monday sent to 14 days judicial custody a doctor couple who had gone to Thailand for a vacation last month after allegedly locking up their 13-year-old maid in their house with very little food. Metropolitan Magistrate Sudhir Kumar Sirohi sent doctor couple, Sanjay Verma and Sumita Verma, with an alleged middleman Mahadev […] Read more » Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act Child Labour Prohibition Delhi court Juvenile Justice Act Maid torture Metropolitan Magistrate Sudhir Kumar Sirohi Regulation Act
Criminal Law News Supreme Court breather for Madhur Bhandarkar April 10, 2012 / April 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday stayed criminal proceedings against filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar in a rape charge levelled against him by actress Priti Jain. While staying the proceedings, an apex court bench of Justice H.L. Dattu and Justice C. K. Prasad issued notice to the Maharashtra government and Jain on Bhandarkar’s plea seeking that the case against […] Read more » actress Preeti Jain Bombay High Court filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar Justice C.K. Prasad Justice H.L. Dattu Supreme Court
Criminal Law News 23 convicted, 23 acquitted for Gujarat riots massacre April 9, 2012 / April 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A sessions court in Anand on Monday convicted 23 people and acquitted as many others for want of evidence in connection with the Ode village massacre in 2002 post-Godhra riots. The verdict was delivered by the district and sessions court Judge Poonam Singh. The court will pronounce the quantum of sentence later. The riot case […] Read more » advocate C K Patel Gujarat riots massacre Judge Poonam Singh Special Investigation Team Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Supreme Court grants bail to Pakistani doctor Chisty April 9, 2012 / April 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court has granted interim bail to 80-year-old Pakistani microbiologist Khalil Chisti during the pendency of his appeal against Rajasthan high court order upholding his conviction in a murder case. Dr Chisti had applied for bail on the ground that he is 80 years old and has already been in prison for the last 20 […] Read more » Home Minister P. Chidambaram murder in Ajmer in 1992 Pakistani microbiologist Khalil Chisti Supreme Court