Criminal Law News Justice Bedi to monitor Gujarat ‘encounters’ probe March 3, 2012 / March 3, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday appointed Justice H.S. Bedi to head a monitoring committee to supervise investigations into 22 cases of alleged fake encounters in Gujarat between 2002 and 2006. Justice Bedi is a retired judge of the Supreme Court. The apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai appointed Justice Bedi […] Read more »
Criminal Law News ‘Create a helpline for rape victims’ March 2, 2012 / March 2, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a significant development, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court has asked the Uttar Pradesh government to create a helpline for rape victims. A bench comprising Justice Rituraj Awasthi and Justice Umanath Singh, while hearing a petition of an NGO ‘We the People’, Thursday directed the state government to immediately make a helpline number […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Justice Rituraj Awasthi Justice Umanath Singh National Crime Records Bureau rape victims
Criminal Law News Supreme Court rejects Talwars plea to move trial to Delhi March 2, 2012 / March 2, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday dismissed Rajesh and Nupur Talwar’s plea that the trial in their daughter Aarushi Talwar’s murder be transferred from the special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Ghaziabad to New Delhi. An apex bench of Justices B.S. Chauhan and E.J.S. Khehar said the reason of inconvenience raised by the dentist couple […] Read more » Aarushi Talwar's murder E.J.S. Khehar Justices B.S. Chauhan Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Court sends notices over Rajasthan’s missing people March 2, 2012 / March 2, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Rajasthan High Court Thursday sent notices to the state’s home secretary and director general of police demanding to know their efforts to trace about 10,000 people who went missing in the past eight years in the state, a lawyer said. “The division bench of Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice N.K. Jain has asked […] Read more » Chief Justice Arun Mishra Justice N.K. Jain Rajasthan High Court Rajasthan's missing people
Criminal Law News Bhanwari case: Court seeks action against threats to CBI February 28, 2012 / February 28, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Rajasthan High Court Monday sought an explanation from the state government and directed it to take action on the CBI allegations that investigators and witnesses in the missing nurse Bhanwari Devi case were getting threats, a lawyer said. “Taking the CBI’s apprehensions seriously, the court has asked the state government to take action and […] Read more » Bhanwari case Justice Govind Mathur Justice N.K. Jain Rajasthan High Court
Criminal Law News Ex-judge could head shoot-out probe panel : Supreme Court February 28, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment After rejecting the Gujarat government’s appointee to monitor the probe into 22 alleged staged shoot-out cases, the Supreme Court Monday suggested the name of a former apex court judge to head the committee. However, a bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai adjourned the matter till Friday after Gujarat’s Additional Advocate General […] Read more » Justice Aftab Alam Justice M.B. Shah Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai shoot-out cases Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Sankararaman murder: Court tells police to verify tape February 28, 2012 / February 28, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court Monday ordered Tamil Nadu Police to examine the veracity of the taped recordings of alleged conversation between Kanchi seer Jayendra Saraswathi and trial court Judge T.Ramaswamy, who is hearing the Sankararaman murder case in which the seer is the main accused. Revoking the suspension of the murder trial proceedings being held […] Read more » Judge T.Ramaswamy Kanchipuram Sankara Mutt Madras High Court Sankararaman murder
Criminal Law News Supreme Court reserves verdict on Talwars’ trial transfer plea February 28, 2012 / February 28, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday reserved its verdict on the plea by dentist couple Rajesh Talwar and Nupur Talwar for transfer of trial in their daughter Aarushi’s murder case from the special CBI court in Ghaziabad to Delhi. A bench of Justice B.S.Chauhan and Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, while reserving the order, directed the trial court […] Read more » Aarushi’s murder case Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Delhi court lets off bicycle thief on probation February 26, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Friday let off a man accused of bicycle theft on probation, considering his socio-economic condition after the accused pleaded guilty and promised not to repeat the crime. Metropolitan Magistrate Ashu Garg let off the accused, Ravi Kumar, and gave him a chance to reform himself. The court asked the accused to pay […] Read more » bicycle thief on probation Delhi court Metropolitan Magistrate Ashu Garg
Criminal Law News Post-mortem on bank robbers bodies performed February 26, 2012 / February 26, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two days after the bloody encounter in which five suspected bank robbers were killed, a team of forensic experts today performed the post-mortem on the bodies of the deceased. In a pre-dawn encounter on February 23, five people — four from Bihar and one from West Bengal — were shot dead by police in ‘self […] Read more » bank robbers bloody encounter Metropolitan Magistrate Geeta Rani
Criminal Law News Court notice to 82 acquitted in Mirchpur Dalit killing February 25, 2012 / February 25, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi high court on Friday issued notice to all 82 acquitted in the 2010 Mirchpur killings on a plea challenging their acquittal in the arson attack on a Dalit settlement in the village in Haryana’s Hisar district. A division bench of Justice S Ravindra Bhat and Justice SP Garg also issued notice to Delhi […] Read more » Delhi High Court Justice S. Ravindra Bhat Justice SP Garg Mirchpur Dalit killing
Criminal Law News Supreme Court allows Bengal to withdraw Nandigram plea February 25, 2012 / February 25, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Decks were cleared for action against police personnel involved in the March 2007 Nandigram firing as the Supreme Court Friday permitted the West Bengal government to withdraw its appeal against a Calcutta High Court order holding the police action unwarranted. The state was permitted to withdrew the appeal that was filed during the tenure of […] Read more » Calcutta High Court Justice C.K. Prasad March 2007 Nandigram firing Supreme Court