Criminal Law News High Profile Cases Release Muslim youths held for Malegaon blast, say scholars January 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Muslim intellectuals Monday asked the Maharashtra government to free young Muslim men held in connection with the 2006 Malegaon bomb blast, following the recent statements of arrested Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Swami Aseemanand. Aseemanand, who was arrested last year, in a confessional statement before a magistrate said that he along with other Hindu activists […] Read more » Malegaon blast
Criminal Law News Re-investigate Madhavpura Cooperative Bank scam: Prosecutor January 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The special public prosecutor in the over Rs.2,000 crore Madhavpura Mercantile Cooperative Bank Scam Friday demanded reinvestigation of the case and enquiry against the police official who probed it. Chetan Shah said Friday that he had made a written submission for this before the Ahmedabad special metropolitan magistrate as the charge-sheet lacked evidentiary value. ‘The […] Read more » Madhavpura Cooperative Bank scam
Criminal Law News High Court seeks records in Binayak Sen conviction January 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The division bench of Chhattisgarh high court in Bilaspur on Friday sought case records of the trial court that awarded life imprisonment to rights activist Binayak Sen on December 24. The court had posted January 24 as the next date for hearing Sen’s bail application. The division bench has sought the record from the trial […] Read more » Binayak Sen conviction
Criminal Law News Media & Entertainment News Kolkata doctors protest for Binayak Sen’s release January 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Expressing anguish and dissent over the life imprisonment of rights activist Binayak Sen, city-based medical practitioners, professors and students Tuesday held a protest here and started a signature campaign demanding his release. Over 250 doctors and students who assembled under the banner ‘Doctors in Solidarity: Free Binayak Sen Campaign’ joined the protest. ‘Binayak Sen was […] Read more » Binayak Sen
Criminal Law News Baby’s death in womb: Surgeon, two others found guilty January 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A surgeon and two others have been found guilty of negligence by a magisterial probe in the death of a pregnant woman’s baby in her womb due to wrong blood transfusion at a government hospital here last month. The probe report was given Monday. Transfusion of blood from a wrong blood group led to the […] Read more » Surgeon womb
Criminal Law News Aarushi murder closure report to be heard Jan 7 January 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation’s report in the Aarushi Talwar murder as an unsolved case will be heard by the CBI special court here Jan 7.In her order, CBI Special Magistrate Preeti Singh instructed the agency’s investigative officer to be present in the court with all the documents Jan 7. The CBI’s report seeking closure […] Read more » Aarushi murder
Criminal Law News CBI points finger at Aarushi’s parents, but lacks evidence January 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment With the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) casting strong aspersions on the role of Aarushi Talwar’s father in her murder, the parents Saturday again lashed out at the agency for making “wild” allegations without a shred of evidence. Fourteen-year-old Aarushi was found murdered under mysterious circumstances in her parents’ Jalvayu Vihar apartment in Noida, Delhi’s […] Read more » CBI
Criminal Law News Ten years of imprisonment for illegal organ trade September 22, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Doctors and touts involved in illegal organ transplantation will be put behind bars for 10 years, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said after the union cabinet approved his ministry’s proposal to amend the Transplantation of Human Organs Act. Azad said, There was a need for amendment. We are happy that the cabinet has approved the […] Read more »
Criminal Law News Life term for 10 cops upheld September 20, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court upheld the life sentence for the 10 police officials convicted for shooting down two innocent businessmen in CP (delhi) 12 years ago. Justices B.N. Chaturvedi and GS. Sistani upheld the life term for then ACP SS. Rathi and nine others for gunning down Pradeep Goyal and Jagjit Singh on the Barakhamba Road […] Read more »
Criminal Law News Charge sheets filed against a Delhi blasts accused September 20, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi Police filed four supplementary charge sheets against a suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist, charged with hacking the wi-fi system to send e-mails to media houses just before last year’s Sept 13 serial blasts in the Delhi. Submitting the charge sheet in the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja, the special cell of Delhi […] Read more »
Criminal Law News Bombay HC acquits ‘serial killer’ in murder case September 20, 2009 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Bombay HC acquits ‘serial killer’ in murder case Bombay High Court acquitted alleged serial killer Ravindra Kantrole in a 2007 murder case, reversing the judgement of a trial court that convicted him of the crime. Justices Bilal Nazki and A R Joshi acquitted him in the case, after Ravindra Kantrole filed an appeal in the HC. Ravindra, who was charged with three murders, […] Read more »
Criminal Law News Court acquits man of charges of raping employer’s wife September 20, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has acquitted a man of the charge of raping the wife of his office worker, saying the victim seemed to be in love with the accused and made a story of sexual assault to shield herself from her husband’s anger. Additional Sessions Judge Dharmesh Sharma said , The entire conduct vis-a-vis evidence […] Read more »