Criminal Law News Three accused of murder attempt acquitted March 18, 2012 / March 18, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has acquitted three accused facing trial in an attempt to murder case after material witnesses did not support the prosecution allegation and the victim failed to identify them. Additional Sessions Judge Rajneesh Kumar Gupta Friday acquitted three accused, Gulfam, Nurhassan and Irfan, observing that the eyewitness of the case has not supported […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Rajneesh Kumar Gupta Delhi court facing trial in an attempt to murder case Indian Penal Code
Criminal Law News Give details on interrogators in Israeli car blast: Court March 18, 2012 / March 18, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here Saturday asked Delhi Police’s anti-terror unit, special cell, to furnish names of investigators who questioned Israeli embassy car blast accused Syed Mohammad Kazmi. Interrogators gave a report denying his harassment. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav said a detailed reply had to be filed by the special cell about the uniform of its […] Read more » " Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav Israeli embassy car blast Syed Mohammad Kazmi
Criminal Law News Nitish Katara murder: Vishal to pay Rs.16 lakh for security March 17, 2012 / March 17, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Vishal Yadav, jailed in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder, was Friday told by the Delhi High Court to pay nearly Rs.16 lakh spent by the government on his security during his visits to hospitals outside prison. A division bench of Justice Gita Mittal and Justice V.K. Shali: “It was all taxpayers money that the government […] Read more » 2002 Nitish Katara murder Delhi High Court Justice Gita Mittal Justice V.K. Shali
Criminal Law News Azad was killed in genuine shootout, CBI tells Supreme Court March 17, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The CBI Friday told the Supreme Court that the 2010 gun battle in which Maoist leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad and freelance journalist H.C. Pandey were killed was genuine. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said this in its final report submitted to the court on its investigation into the killing of Azad and Pandey. […] Read more » Justice Aftab Alam Justice R.P. Desai Maoist leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Supreme Court to hear Nupur, Rajesh Tawlar’s review petition March 16, 2012 / March 16, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court will hear in an open court a review plea by Rajesh and Nupur Talwar challenging its decision to allow their prosecution in the 2008 double murder of their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj. Usually review applications are disposed of without oral arguments but the court has made exception in this case. […] Read more » 2008 double murder of Aarushi and Hemraj Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Suspected terrorist allowed to contest Delhi civic polls March 16, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Thursday allowed a suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist, who is accused in the 2008 Delhi serial blasts, to contest the upcoming civic body polls in the national capital. Judge Narinder Kumar allowed application of Zia-ur-Rehman to file his nomination for the April 15 elections to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). The court […] Read more » Delhi civic polls Delhi court Judge Narinder Kumar suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist
Criminal Law News Warrant issued against three in Israeli car blast case March 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court issued warrant against three Iranians Wednesday in the Israeli diplomat car blast case, said a senior police official. Chief of Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Vinod Yadav of Delhi’s Tis Hazari court issued vulnerable warrant against three Iranians namely — Hooshang Asfshar Irani, Syed Ali Meheid Sadra, and Mohammed Reza Abol Ehasemi. On March […] Read more » Chief of Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Vinod Yadav Israeli car blast case Sayed Mohammed Ahmed Kazmi
Criminal Law News Mid-sea collision: Ship captain sent to judicial custody March 15, 2012 / March 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Kerala court Wednesday sent to 14 days’s judicial custody the captain of a vessel suspected to be involved in a mid-sea collision with a fishing boat off the coast here March 1 that killed five fishermen. Gordon Charles Pereira, the captain of ship Prabhu Daya owned by a Singapore firm, was brought from Chennai […] Read more » Gordon Charles Pereira captain of ship Prabhu Daya Kerala court Mid-sea collision
Criminal Law News Rajesh Talwar to continue on bail March 14, 2012 / March 14, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Hearing the Aarushi Talwar-Hemraj murder case, a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Wednesday allowed Rajesh Talwar to remain on bail. Dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar had moved the Supreme Court seeking the transfer of trial on the grounds of their personal security, and that a large number of witnesses in the […] Read more » Aarushi Talwar-Hemraj murder case Rajesh Talwar Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Bhanwari killing: Accused husband retracts statement March 14, 2012 / March 14, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Bhanwari Devi’s husband Amarchand, one of the accused in her abduction and murder case, on Tuesday sought to retract his statement to magistrate, saying it was made under the compulsion of the CBI. Amarchand, who is named in the charge-sheet filed by the CBI last month, in his application before the CBI court in Jodhpur, […] Read more » Bhanwari Devi's husband Amarchand Bhanwari killing Congress MLA Malkhan Singh counsel Muktesh Maheshwari
Criminal Law News Pragya Thakur to be lodged in Bhopal jail March 14, 2012 / March 14, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Radical Hindu activist Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur will now be lodged in Bhopal Central Jail till the completion of the trial of the former RSS pracharak Sunil Joshi murder case in which she and four others are arrayed as accused by the National Investigating Agency (NIA). Additional District Judge V K Pandey sent Pragya and […] Read more » Additional District Judge V K Pandey National Investigation Agency (NIA) court Radical Hindu activist Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur RSS pracharak Sunil Joshi murder case
Criminal Law News Delhi High Court blast: Charges filed against six March 14, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Delhi High Court blast: Charges filed against six The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Tuesday named six accused in a chargesheet filed here in connection with the 2011 Delhi High Court blast that killed 15 people. The chargesheet, filed during in-camera proceedings, named Amir Abbas Dev and Wasim Akram Malik, who were arrested in September, and are in judicial custody. The six accused includes […] Read more » Delhi High Court Delhi high Court Blast National Investigation Agency NIA special hudge H.S. Sharma