Criminal Law News Gujarat appointee for shootout probe monitoring rejected February 24, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme court Friday refused to accept the Gujarat government’s appointee to head the monitoring authority which would have overseen a probe into 22 alleged staged shootouts that took place in the state between 2002 and 2006. The Gujarat government Thursday appointed Justice (retd.) K.R. Vyas to head the monitoring authority after Justice M.B. Shah […] Read more » Justice (retd.) K.R. Vyas Justice M.B. Shah lyricist writer Javed Akthar Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Supreme Court cautions police, stir organisers February 24, 2012 / February 24, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday said that the law enforcing agencies should give reasonable notice and time to organisers of agitations to comply with their orders, while the protestors too have the duty to maintain order. The directions issued by the apex court bench of Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice Swatanter Kumar said “except in cases […] Read more » Baba Ramdev Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice Swatanter Kumar Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Mumbai terror attack footage to be screened in Supreme Court February 23, 2012 / February 23, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Thursday would hear the intercepted conversation between the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror strikes and their handlers based in Pakistan. A bench of justices Aftab Alam and C K Prasad decided to hear the recorded talks between the 10 terrorists and their bosses in Pakistan after the Maharashtra government claimed […] Read more » Justice Aftab Alam Justice C.K. Prasad Mumbai terror attack Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Abuse in orphanage: Court refuses to bar fresh probes February 23, 2012 / February 23, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday declined to bar any fresh inquiry into the sexual assault and harassment of children at a privately-run orphanage in central Delhi where an NGO reported physical abuse. NGO Haq Foundation in its report based on personal interviews and interactions with children who live in Arya Orphanage in Daryaganj said that […] Read more » Abuse in orphanage Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw
Criminal Law News Court orders action against Mumbai Congress chief February 23, 2012 / February 23, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the city police commissioner to register an FIR against senior Congress leader Kripashankar Singh for ” criminal misconduct” under the Prevention of Corruption Act and ordered the attachment of his and his immediate family’s movable and immovable properties worth crores. The court order came as a major blow […] Read more » Bombay High Court Chief Justice Mohit Shah Justice Roshan Dalvi Patnaik senior Congress leader Kripashankar Singh
Criminal Law News Bhanwari Devi case: CBI getting threats, court told February 22, 2012 / February 22, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The CBI on Tuesday told the Rajasthan high court that it was receiving threats and its witnesses in the Bhanwari Devi case were being forced to turn hostile. Agency counsel Panne Singh, during the hearing of the habeas corpus petition filed by Amarchand, husband of Bhanwari Devi, told the court that the CBI has done a […] Read more » Bhanwari Devi Case Justice Govind Mathur Justice KC Joshi Rajasthan High Court
Criminal Law News Supreme Court pulls up Modi on FIR against activist February 21, 2012 / February 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday pulled up the Gujarat government for filing a frivolous FIR against social activist Teesta Setalvad in connection with the 2002 Gujarat Riots case involving the digging up of unidentified bodies buried at Lunawada in Gujarat. The apex court bench headed by Justice Aftab Alam told counsel for the Gujarat government that […] Read more » 2002 Gujarat Riots case Justice Aftab Alam Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Reply to Aarushi parents’ plea, Supreme Court tells CBI February 21, 2012 / February 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the CBI to file its reply on the plea by Rajesh and Nupur Talwar seeking a transfer of the trial in their daughter Aarushi’s 2008 murder from a Ghaziabad special CBI court to New Delhi. The apex court bench headed by Justice B.S. Chauhan has asked the Central Bureau of […] Read more » Aarushi's 2008 murder Additional Solicitor General Harin Rawal Justice B.S. Chauhan Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Dey murder: Chargesheet against Vora likely today February 21, 2012 / February 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Mumbai police are likely to file a chargesheet against woman journalist Jigna Vora on Tuesday in the murder of senior scribe J. Dey who was shot dead in June last year, an official said here. “We are likely to file a supplementary chargesheet against Vora tomorrow (Tuesday). We have gathered enough evidence against her to […] Read more » Commissioner of Police Devendra Bharti Dey murder special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act
Criminal Law News Court rejects ex-law officer’s plea in bribe case February 20, 2012 / February 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A former CBI law officer has been denied a breather by the the Delhi High Court, which rejected his plea for quashing the bribery charges slapped on him. A bench of Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice V.K. Jain rejected the plea of former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) deputy legal advisor Rajendra Prasad Dwivedi on […] Read more » Bribe case Delhi High Court Justice B.D. Ahmed Justice V.K. Jain
Criminal Law News 13/7 blasts: Police remand of four accused extended February 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Mumbai court Saturday extended the police custody of four accused in the July 13 serial blasts that killed 27 people and injured over 100 here, a lawyer said. “The court has extended the remand of Haroon Rashid Abdul Hamid Naik and another accused Nain Wazeer Chand Patrija till Feb 24,” defence lawyer Sharif Shaikh […] Read more » Aftab Ansari the mastermind of 2002 American Center attack in Kolkata defence lawyer Sharif Shaikh Haroon Rashid Abdul Hamid Naik Mumbai court
Criminal Law News Court accepts 26/11 charges against Headley, 8 Pakistanis February 19, 2012 / February 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Saturday accepted charges against Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist David Headley and eight other Pakistanis for the 2008 Mumbai attack. Those named in the charge sheet filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) include Lashkar founder Hafiz Saeed and two officers of the Pakistani spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The court on March 13, […] Read more » 2008 Mumbai attack Delhi court Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist David Headley