Criminal Law News 17 mercy petitions pending before president July 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on 17 mercy petitions pending before president Mercy petitions of 17 people on death row are pending before President Pratibha Patil, reply to a Right to Information (RTI) application has revealed. Most of the pleas are from those convicted of murder or rape. In reply to information sought under the RTI Act by Subhash Chandra Agarwal, the President’s Secretariat said the oldest […] Read more » Afzal Guru's petition Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar Gurmeet Singh Jafar Ali Kheraj Ram's death penalty Mahendra Nath Das alias Govinda Das mercy petitions pending President President Pratibha Patil Sushil Murmu TADA Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act
Criminal Law News Bengal government issued notice on children’s deaths July 2, 2011 / July 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The West Bengal government was Friday issued notice by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) over the reported deaths of 17 infants in a state-run hospital in Kolkata in a span of two days. According to a statement by the commission Friday, 17 infants died within a span of two days at the B.C. Roy, […] Read more » Bengal government children's deaths National Human Rights Commission NHRC
Criminal Law News Ex-navy man, starlet sentenced for TV executive’s murder July 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Ex-naval officer Jerome Mathew was sentenced to 10 years in jail for the 2008 murder of TV executive Neeraj Grover for allegedly having an affair with his girlfriend Maria Monica Susairaj. The actress got a three-year term for destroying evidence, but would walk free for time done as an undertrial. Mathew and Susairaj were sentenced […] Read more » Ex-navy man murder sentenced starlet TV executive
Criminal Law News Media & Entertainment News Girl killed in police station was gangraped: Women’s panel July 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Contradicting two autopsy reports, the National Commission for Women (NCW) said here Thursday that the minor girl found dead in a police station complex in this Uttar Pradesh district had indeed been gangraped. Not only one, several people raped the girl and brutally killed her. Thereafter, the girls body was hanged from a tree to […] Read more » gangraped girl killed police station
Criminal Law News Court acquits six accused of gangraping US national June 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Acquitting six students of the charge of gangraping a US national, the Bombay High Court Wednesday dismissed the Maharashtra government challenge to a trial court verdict in their favour, a lawyer said. ‘The division bench of Justice Mridula Bhatkar and Justice N.H. Patil said that there is no evidence to prove the gangrape,’ said Rohini […] Read more » acquits Court gangraping US national
Criminal Law News Court acquits man accused of torturing daughter-in-law June 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High court has upheld a trial court’s order acquitting a man accused of torture and dowry harassment of his daughter-in-law, who later committed suicide at her parents’ house. The division bench of Justice S. Ravindra Bhat and Justice G.P. Mittal said: “We are satisfied that the trial court’s findings as well as conclusions […] Read more » accused acquits Court daughter-in-law Justice G.P. Mittal Justice S. Ravindra Bhat man torturing
Criminal Law News Scheme to compensate rape victims from Aug 1 June 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 3 Comments on Scheme to compensate rape victims from Aug 1 The central government will launch a scheme to compensate rape victims from August 1, an official statement said on Tuesday. “The scheme has been approved and the budget has been provided. Now it has been decided to launch the scheme (for rape victims) on Aug 1,” women and child development minister Krishna Tirath said. The […] Read more » Compensate Krishna Tirath rape victims Scheme
Criminal Law News AIIMS served notice for turning away patient June 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday issued notice to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here after taking note of a petition filed by a woman who alleged that the hospital denied her treatment as she could not bear the expense. A vacation bench of Justice Manmohan Singh issued notice to AIIMS, seeking their […] Read more » AIIMS
Criminal Law News Reopen case, allow me to prove my innocence: Sarabjit June 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Sarabjit Singh – an Indian on death row in Pakistan after his conviction for bomb attacks – has appealed for the commutation of his death sentence or the reopening of his case so that he can prove his innocence, a media report said Friday.”Sarabjit has appealed to President Asaf Ali Zardari to commute his death […] Read more » Reopen case Sarabjit
Criminal Law News Media & Entertainment News Delhi rapist jailed for six years June 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has sentenced a man to six years in jail and fined him Rs.15,000 for raping a minor girl. “Considering the age of the convict at the time of offence, which was only 20-22 years, and the fact that he has no previous history of involvement in any other case, I am inclined […] Read more » Delhi jailed rapist
Criminal Law News Gujarat top cops served notice in RDX landing case June 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat government Friday issued a show-cause notice to IPS officers Satish Verma, Atul Karwal and H.P. Singh and Deputy Superintendent of Police Sukhdevsinh Jhala in connection with the 1993 Porbandar RDX landing case. The notice has been issued for allegedly allowing Sattar Maulana, a key accused in the landing of the RDX explosives at […] Read more » Atul Karwal Bharatiya Janata Party Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhyaya Gujarat top cops H.P. Singh IPS officers Satish Verma Justice J.B. Pardiwala RDX landing case
Criminal Law News Rana acquitted for Mumbai, India disappointed June 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a verdict that “disappointed” India, a US jury cleared Pakistan-born Canadian Tahawwur Rana of charges that he helped with the 26/11 Mumbai attack but convicted him of supporting the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the Islamist militant group New Delhi blames for the carnage. The Indian government stressed it was still carrying out investigations against Rana, but […] Read more » India disappointed Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Rana acquitted for Mumbai Tahawwur Rana