Criminal Law News Vikas Yadav wants four days leave from jail November 9, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to Delhi Police on a plea by Vikas Yadav, undergoing life imprisonment for the murder of Nitish Katara in 2002, seeking four days suspension of his sentence for signing some legal papers. Taking note of the counsel’s submission that Vikas Yadav would sign the documents and return to […] Read more » Delhi High Court Justice Pratibha Rani Justice S. Ravindra Bhat murder of Nitish Katara
Criminal Law News Court orders Rs.10 lakh relief for raped minor girl November 6, 2011 / November 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Court orders Rs.10 lakh relief for raped minor girl The Gauhati high court has asked the central government to pay Rs.10 lakh compensation to a minor girl whose school principal raped her in 1998 in Tripura. The girl, then a class 8 student, delivered a baby in hostel the next year, an official said Sunday. “The high court in a judgment Friday asked the […] Read more » Gauhati High Court Rs.10 lakh compensation to a minor girl Tripura women's commission
Criminal Law News Supreme Court wants zero tolerance for police atrocities November 5, 2011 / November 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Supreme Court wants zero tolerance for police atrocities The Supreme Court has said that police atrocities are violative of the constitutional mandate of protection of life and liberty and not resisting them amounts to erosion of the rule of law. “Tolerance of police atrocities… would amount to acceptance of systemic subversion and the erosion of the rule of law,” said the apex court […] Read more » Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice P. Sathasivam police atrocities Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Court gives bail to nine in 2006 Malegaon blasts case November 5, 2011 / November 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act special court here Saturday granted bail to all nine accused in the 2006 Malegaon blasts that killed 37 people, as the National Investigation Agency decided not to oppose their pleas, a lawyer said. “MCOCA Special Judge Y.D. Shinde granted bail to all nine accused after the NIA formally […] Read more » 2006 Malegaon blasts case Judge Y.D. Shinde Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act special court
Criminal Law News Mumbai molesters sent to judicial custody November 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Mumbai court on Friday remanded four youths, charged with the killing of two young men who protested their attempts to harass their women friends, in judicial custody till Nov 18, police said. The four accused – Deepak Thival, 18, Sunil Bodhe, 20, Jitendra Rane, 25, and Satish Dulhaj, 35, were arrested for assaulting Keenan […] Read more » D.N. Nagar police station judicial custody Mumbai court Mumbai molesters
Criminal Law News ‘Killers’ of man, who turns out to be alive, set free November 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday released, on bail, four members of a family who were sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a person who later surfaced to tell the court that he was alive. But the release came only after they had spent a decade in jail. Granting the bail, a bench of Justice RM […] Read more » Justice HL Gokhale Justice RM Lodha Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Delhi student’s murder case transferred to Crime Branch November 4, 2011 / November 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High court Friday dismissed a plea seeking a CBI probe into the killing of 20-year-old engineering student Shobit Modi in May and transferred the case to the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police “The investigation to be carried out by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police under the direct supervision of the concerned […] Read more » Delhi High Court Justice Mukta Gupta student Shobit Modi murder case
Criminal Law News Manu Sharma seeks 12-day parole for brother’s marriage November 2, 2011 / November 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Manu Sharma, serving life sentence in the Tihar Jail for killing ramp model Jessica Lall in 1999, Wednesday approached the Delhi High Court, seeking parole to attend his brother’s marriage and related functions between Nov 10 and 21. Parole is the temporary release of a convict from prison before the end of the tenure of […] Read more » Delhi High Court Jessica Lall Justice V.K. Shali
Criminal Law News Shobhit murder: Order reserved on plea for CBI probe November 1, 2011 / November 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday reserved its order on a plea seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the killing of 20-year-old engineering student Shobhit Modi May 5 near his house in south Delhi. Suraj Modi, father of Shobhit, had sought a CBI probe into the murder, saying the police were handling the […] Read more » CBI Delhi High Court Justice Mukta Gupta Shobhit murder case
Criminal Law News More time sought for filing Malegaon blast report, charges October 31, 2011 / October 31, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Investigation Agency Monday sought time, till Friday (Nov 4), from a special court here to file its report and additional charge-sheet against nine accused in the 2006 Malegaon bomb blast case, a lawyer said. The NIA, which is currently probing the case, informed the designated Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court […] Read more » Judge Y.D. Shinde lawyer Khalid Azmi Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act Malegaon bomb blast case
Criminal Law News Pushkin Chandra killing: Life term for two upheld October 31, 2011 / October 31, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Monday upheld the life sentence awarded to two men for murdering United Nations Development Programme employee Pushkin Chandra and his friend Kuldeep in south Delhi in 2004. Earlier in March a Delhi court awarded rigorous life imprisonment to two persons for stabbing to death two homosexuals, belonging to affluent families, nearly […] Read more » Delhi High Court IAS officer Pushkin Chandra killing Judge A K Kuhar
Criminal Law News Three get life term for Haryana village killings October 31, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here Monday awarded life sentence to three of the 15 people convicted for burning alive a 70-year-old Dalit man and his physically challenged daughter in the arson attack on a Dalit settlement at the Mirchpur village in Haryana’s Hisar district last year. Read more » life term for Haryana village killings Mirchpur village