Criminal Law News AIIMS paper leak: Accused sent to police custody January 18, 2012 / January 18, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Five youths, including a doctor and an MBBS student, arrested for allegedly leaking post-graduate medical entrance test papers and helping some candidates by providing answers over mobile phone and bluetooth, were on Tuesday remanded to police custody for seven days by a Delhi court. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Amit Bansal remanded the accused to […] Read more » Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Amit Bansal AIIMS AIIMS paper leak Delhi court
Criminal Law News Bhanwari case: Judicial custody of five extended till Jan 30 January 17, 2012 / January 17, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) presented the five men in the court of an additional chief judicial magistrate Monday. Malkhan Singh, legislator from Luni constituency, was arrested Dec 19 by the CBI after questioning. Former minister and legislator Mahipal Maderna, who allegedly featured in a CD in a compromising position with the nurse, was […] Read more » Bhanwari case Central Bureau of Investigation Former minister and legislator Mahipal Maderna
Criminal Law News Lawyer sent to jail for seven days jail for assaulting female lawyer January 14, 2012 / January 14, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Friday sent a lawyer to judicial custody for seven days after the court found him guilty of misbehaving with a female lawyer during hearing. A male lawyer assaulted his female counterpart in the midst of a hearing before the Joint Registrar A.S. Jaichandra. It all started with a war of […] Read more » assaulting female lawyer Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Shah Endlaw
Criminal Law News Judge visits slums over gangrape case January 13, 2012 / January 13, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court judge hearing a gangrape case visited a slum cluster in north Delhi Thursday, a day before issuing her order in the mater. Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau, accompanied by the public prosecutor, the investigation officer and defence counsel, inspected a spot in Jahangirpuri over the victim’s gangrape by five people in March […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau Delhi court gangrape case
Criminal Law News J. Dey murder: Special public prosecutor appointed January 11, 2012 / January 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Maharashtra government has appointed a special public prosecutor to fight its case against 11 accused in the murder of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey. Raja Thakare is the special public prosecutor in the case, sources said, adding the notification pertaining to his appointment was issued on Tuesday. Dey (56), editor of investigations with a tabloid […] Read more » gangster Chhota Rajan J. Dey murder Raja Thakare
Criminal Law News AIIMS paper leak accused sent to police custody January 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi Police have been given a week-long custody of five youngsters who were arrested for allegedly leaking the test papers of an all-India postgraduate medical exam conducted by AIIMS. Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Amit Bansal granted the custody of the accused for a week after the police said they needed to interrogate the five […] Read more » AIIMS paper leak all-India postgraduate medical exam chief metropolitan magistrate Amit Bansal
Criminal Law News Nurse case: Accused sent to CBI custody till Jan 12 January 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Rajasthan court here extended till Jan 12 the CBI custody of Omprakash Bishnoi arrested for allegedly disposing of nurse Bhanwari Devi’s body after burning her to death last year, officials said. Omprakash is the brother of Bishnaram Bishnoi who was held near Pune by Maharashtra police Jan 4. The CBI announced a cash reward […] Read more » Bhanwari Devi CBI custody of Omprakash Bishnoi Rajasthan court
Criminal Law News Aarushi murder: Rajesh Talwar to remain on bail January 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Giving Rajesh Talwar a breather, the Supreme Court on Monday directed that the dentist would continue to be on bail till Feb 4 when he will appear before a Ghaziabad court to face trial in the murder case of his teen daughter Aarushi. An apex court bench headed by Justice A.K. Ganguly passed the directions […] Read more » Aarushi murder Justice A.K. Ganguly Rajesh Talwar
Criminal Law News Aarushi murder: Supreme Court orders trial of slain teenager’s parents January 6, 2012 / January 6, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a major setback to dentist couple Nupur and Rajesh Talwar, the Supreme Court today cleared the decks for their trial in their daughter Aarushi’s murder case. A bench of justices A K Ganguly and J S Khehar dismissed the couple’s plea to quash criminal proceedings against them in the sensational 2008 case involving the […] Read more » Aarushi murder Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice J.S. Khehar Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Jama Masjid blast: Judicial custody of six accused extended January 6, 2012 / January 6, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court on Thursday extended till Jan 19 the judicial custody of six accused in the 2010 Jama Masjid firing and blast in which two foreigners were injured. Police told the court that they were awaiting the forensic report of bullet shells found at the site of September 2010 incident. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav […] Read more » " Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav Jama Masjid blast Judicial custody of six accused extended
Criminal Law News Shivani murder: Court seeks police reply on parole plea January 5, 2012 / January 5, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday sought a response from Delhi Police on a plea by Pradeep Sharma, a convict serving life term in the journalist Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, seeking parole for re-establishing family contact. Shivani, a journalist with the Indian Express, was murdered at her Navkunj Apartments flat at I.P. Extension in east Delhi […] Read more » Delhi High Court Justice Mukta Gupta Shivani Bhatnagar murder case
Criminal Law News AMRI Hospital moves court on relief for fire victims January 5, 2012 / January 5, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Calcutta High Court Wednesday admitted a petition by the city’s AMRI Hospital, seeking the West Bengal government’s intervention in paying compensation to the families of those killed in a fire in its premises last month. Justice J.K. Biswas directed the state government and Kolkata police chief to file affidavits stating their stand on the […] Read more » AMRI counsel S. Pal AMRI Hospital Calcutta High Court Justice J.K. Biswas