Criminal Law News Excise official sent to police custody January 3, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court Tuesday remanded to four days judicial custody a superintendent of Central Excise along with a middleman for allegedly demanding bribe of Rs.60 lakh from a mobile phones importer. A central excise commissioner is also accused but has not been arrested as he is in hospital for heart […] Read more » CBI special judge Talwant Singh Central Excise Commissioner A.K. Srivastava
Criminal Law News Supreme Court denies bail to Bangalore blast accused January 3, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed the bail plea of Peoples Democratic Party chairman Abdul Nazir Maudani, who is an accused in the 2008 Bangalore blast case. While rejecting his bail plea, an apex court bench headed by Justice P. Sathasivam said: “We are not inclined to enlarge him on bail.” It also rejected his plea […] Read more » 2008 Bangalore blast case Democratic Party chairman Abdul Nazir Maudani Justice P. Sathasivam Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Telugu actor’s death: Court reduces sentence of convict December 29, 2011 / December 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Wednesday reduced the jail sentence of G. Siddhartha Reddy, a convict in the death of Telugu actress Pratyusha in 2002, to two years from five years earlier awarded. The trial court in 2004 sentenced Reddy to five years’ imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs.5,000 on charges of abetment […] Read more » Andhra Pradesh High Court death of Telugu actress Pratyusha in 2002 Justice N. Ravi Shankar
Criminal Law News Missing nurse case: CBI custody of lawmaker extended December 29, 2011 / December 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Rajasthan court here Wednesday extended till Dec 31 the CBI custody of Congress legislator Malkhan Singh Bishnoi, arrested in connection with the case of missing nurse Bhanwari Devi, officials said. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) presented him in the court of an additional chief judicial magistrate at the end of his remand period. […] Read more » CBI custody of lawmaker extended Congress legislator Malkhan Singh Bishnoi Missing nurse case Rajasthan court
Criminal Law News Missing nurse case: Court extends Maderna’s custody December 25, 2011 / December 25, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here Saturday extended the judicial custody of sacked Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna, arrested for his alleged role in the disappearance of nurse Bhanwari Devi, who is allegedly shown in a compromising position with him in a CD. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) brought Maderna before the additional chief judicial magistrate, who extended […] Read more » Court extends Maderna’s custody Missing nurse case nurse Bhanwari Devi
Criminal Law News AMRI directors denied bail, sent to judicial custody December 24, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A West Bengal court Friday denied bail to the arrested directors of AMRI Hospital, where a pre-dawn blaze killed 93 people earlier this month, and remanded six of them to judicial custody till Jan 5 next year. Chief Judicial Magistrate of Alipore Court (South 24 Parganas) C.H. Karim also ordered that the seventh director R.S. […] Read more » Chief Judicial Magistrate of Alipore Court C.H. Karim directors of AMRI Hospital West Bengal court
Criminal Law News Missing nurse case: Arrest warrants for legislator’s sister, four others December 24, 2011 / December 24, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Arrest warrants were Friday issued against five people including a Congress legislator?s sister after she failed to appear before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for questioning in the case of missing nurse Bhanwari Devi. Indra Bishnoi is sister of legislator from Luni constituency, Malkhan Singh Bishnoi, who has been arrested by the CBI for […] Read more » Arrest warrants for legislator’s sister four others Bhanwari Devi Missing nurse case
Criminal Law News Kerala sex scandal case: Police get a month to finish probe December 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Kerala High Court Thursday asked police to complete within a month the investigation into the two-decade-old Kozhikode sex scandal case involving state minister and Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leader P.K. Kunhalikutty. Appearing for the state government, Advocate General K.P. Dandapani requested the court to grant police another six weeks to complete recording of […] Read more » Advocate General K.P. Dandapani Indian Union Muslim League Kerala High Court Kerala sex scandal case
Criminal Law News TV executive murder case convict refused bail December 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court Tuesday declined the bail plea of former naval officer Emile Jerome Mathew, convicted in the murder of television executive Neeraj Grover, citing grounds of ‘sufficient circumstantial evidence’. A division bench comprising Justice V.M. Kanade and Justice M.L. Tahaliyani said that there was sufficient evidence in the case and the best it […] Read more » Bombay High Court Justice M.L. Tahaliyani Justice V.M. Kanade murder of television executive Neeraj Grover
Criminal Law News AMRI case: Directors’ police custody extended by 3 days December 21, 2011 / December 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A West Bengal court Tuesday extended by three days the police custody of six Advanced Medicare & Research Institute (AMRI) Hospital directors facing trial in connection with the devastating fire in the medical facility that left 93 people dead. “In the interest of justice and for the purposes of investigation, this court thinks fit to […] Read more » AMRI case Directors' police custody extended by 3 days West Bengal court
Criminal Law News Dey murder: Vora’s custody extended till Jan 3 December 21, 2011 / December 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court on Tuesday extended till January 3 the judicial custody of all the eleven accused, including woman journalist Jigna Vora, arrested in connection with the murder of the senior crime reporter Jyotirmoy Dey. Vora, who had, on December 13 filed an application in the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court, seeking […] Read more » Control of Organised Crime Act court Dey murder Vora's custody extended till Jan 3
Criminal Law News Six get life term for Bangalore terror attack December 19, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Six people, suspected to be members of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, were Monday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Karnataka court for a terror attack at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science here in 2005 that killed a retired professor. Fast track court Judge V.R. Revankar awarded the punishment to Mohammed Riaz-ur-Rehman of Andhra Pradesh, and […] Read more » Bangalore terror attack Judge V. R. Revankar Karnataka court