Criminal Law News Top Law News Poll code violation: Charge sheet filed against UP minister April 20, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A charge sheet was today filed against Uttar Pradesh minister Suresh Rana and nine others in a local court for violating the Model Code of Conduct during the assembly elections. Charges related to making “statements conducing to public mischief and waging war against any Asiatic Power in alliance with the Government of India” have been […] Read more » Charge sheet filed against UP minister Court featured Law Legal News Poll code violation Suresh Rana
Criminal Law News Top Law News Two persons get life sentence for murder April 19, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A local court today sentenced two persons to life imprisonment for the murder of a scrap dealer in Odisha’s Sundargarh district about four years ago. Additional Sessions judge Srinibash Pratihari pronounced the jail term for Mahesh Gope and Rabi Nayar after holding both guilty of killing scrap dealer Ananda Panda (35) in June, 2013. Two […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News life sentence for murder murder case
Criminal Law News Top Law News Mother-son get jail term in rape case April 19, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A local court has sentenced a 24-year-old man to 15 years’ rigorous imprisonment for raping a minor girl and awarded ten years’ jail term to his mother for abetting the crime. District judge Mridula V K Bhatia convicted Sushant Dubey, owner of a driving school here, and his mother Mamata Dubey on Monday. Sushant was […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News POCSO Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act rape case Thane
Criminal Law News Top Law News Shahabuddin acquitted by Jharkhand court in triple murder case April 18, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Controversial RJD leader Mohammad Shahabuddin was today acquitted by a Jharkhand court in a triple murder case involving a railway contractor and a Youth Congress leader 28 years ago due to lack of evidence. Shahabuddin, currently lodged in Tihar Jail in connection with a double murder case that took place in his hometown Siwan in […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Jharkhand court Law Legal News Mohammad Shahabuddin RJD triple murder case
Criminal Law News Top Law News Jawan suicide case: Bail pleas of journo, retd army man rejected April 17, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here has rejected the anticipatory bail applications of a New Delhi-based woman journalist and a retired army official charged with abetting suicide of Lance Naik D S Roy Mathew. Mathew had committed suicide after he purportedly figured in an expose by a news portal over alleged abuse of the “buddy” (orderly) system in […] Read more » Bail pleas of journo Court featured Jawan suicide case Law Legal News
Criminal Law News Top Law News Delhi HC convicts man for raping minor, terms the crime horrendous April 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has convicted a man for kidnapping and raping a minor girl and then endangering her life by leaving the child in a deserted place after committing the “horrendous” crime. Justice S P Garg awarded 10 years jail term to the convict, a rickshaw puller, while modifying the trial court’s decision to […] Read more » Court crime horrendous Criminal news Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News rape case
Criminal Law News High Profile Cases Imposing only fine on woman convict in serious case unfair: SC April 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has held that imposing only a fine in serious offences, which entail award of jail terms and fine both, on women convicts would lead to “unfair” and “unjust” consequences. Observing this, the apex court set aside the Himachal Pradesh High Court verdict imposing only a fine on a woman, who was convicted […] Read more » apex court Court Criminal news featured Himachal Pradesh High Court Law Legal News serious offences Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Top Law News Police rapped for revealing identity of sexual offence victims April 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A city court has rebuked Delhi Police for blatantly violating the law on confidentiality by revealing the identity of minors subjected to sexual violence and their parents in a series of cases. Taking serious note of the names of the child victims and the names and addresses of their parents being mentioned in the charge […] Read more » Court Criminal news Delhi Police featured Law Legal News rape case sexual offence.
Criminal Law News Top Law News ‘Wife’s capability to earn, no ground to reject maintenance’ April 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Interim maintenance cannot be denied to a woman by her estranged spouse on the ground that she is capable of sustaining herself, a Delhi court has said. The sessions court made the observation while allowing a woman’s appeal against a magisterial court order that had refused her interim maintenance from her husband in a domestic […] Read more » Court Delhi court domestic violence case featured Interim maintenance Law Legal News magisterial court
Criminal Law News Top Law News ‘Death due to grave, sudden provocation not cruel act of murder’ April 12, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Death due to “grave and sudden provocation” could not be termed as a “cruel act” of murder, the Supreme Court has said while reducing the life term of a man to 10-year-jail term in a homicidal case. A bench comprising justices A K Sikri and R K Agrawal granted the relief to Punjab resident Surain […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News murder case Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Top Law News Interim bail to 5 fresh accused in coal case April 10, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court here today granted interim bail till May 4 to five fresh accused named by the CBI in its supplementary charge sheet in a coal scam case against Congress leader and industrialist Naveen Jindal and others. Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar granted the interim bail to accused- Jindal Steel’s adviser Anand Goel, Gurgaon-based […] Read more » coal case Court featured interim bail Law Legal News
Criminal Law News Top Law News Man sentenced to death for raping, killing minor April 7, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A fast track court today handed death sentence to a man for raping and killing a minor at Kashipur in Udhamsingh Nagar district last year. Fast track POCSO court judge Neelam Ratra handed the death sentence to Karandeep Sharma alias Raju after pronouncing him guilty of raping and killing an eight-year-old girl on the night […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News Man sentenced to death for raping minor murder case udham singh nagar Uttarakhand
