High Profile Cases Unnao rape case: Kuldeep Sengar to remain in jail for life and to pay Rs 25L exemplary fine December 22, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar will remain in jail for entire life for raping a woman in Unnao in 2017, a Delhi court said on Friday while sentencing him for life. District Judge Dharmesh Sharma also imposed an exemplary fine of Rs 25 lakh in the case and it has to be paid within […] Read more » Kuldeep Sengar Unnao rape case
High Profile Cases Citizenship law: Students and opposition leaders step up protests; SC rejects inquiry panel plea December 22, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Students, opposition leaders and activists across regions stepped up their protests against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act on Tuesday even as at least 29 persons were arrested for violent clashes over the last couple of days in Jamia Millia Islamia and parts of UP, while the Supreme Court rejected plea for setting up an inquiry […] Read more » Citizenship law Citizenship law protest in Jamia islamia
High Profile Cases Nirbhaya case: CJI Bobde recuses from hearing convict’s plea seeking review of death penalty December 22, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chief Justice S A Bobde recused himself on Tuesday from hearing the plea of convict Akshay Kumar Singh seeking review of the 2017 apex court judgment upholding his death penalty in the Nirbhaya gang rape-and-murder case. At the outset, a special bench comprising CJI and Justices R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan made it clear that […] Read more » CJI Bobde Nirbhaya case review of death penalty
High Profile Cases 15 held in connection with Daryaganj violence sent to 2-day judicial custody December 22, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Fifteen people arrested in connection with the violence in Old Delhi’s Daryaganj area were sent to two days’ judicial custody by a city court on Saturday. The police had sought 14 days’ judicial custody of the arrested people. One of those arrested claimed he was a juvenile. However, the police said he told them he […] Read more » Daryaganj violence
Criminal Law News High Profile Cases Vet rape & murder: Telangana High Court orders second autopsy of four. December 22, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Telangana High Court on Saturday directed re-postmortem of the bodies of four accused in the gang-rape and murder of a woman veterinarian near here last month, who were killed in an alleged encounter on December 6. The bodies of the four accused are currently preserved in the state-run Gandhi Hospital here as per earlier […] Read more » gang-rape and murder of a woman veterinarian Telangana High Court Vetenary doctor rape and murder
High Profile Cases Death penalty for rape and murder of 3-year-old girl December 20, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court in Odishas Keonjhar district on Thursday sentenced a man to death penalty for rape and murder of a three-year-old girl. Additional District Court-cum Special Court Judge Lokanath Sahu pronounced capital punishment to 20-year-old Sunil Kumar Naik after convicting him for rape and murder of the minor girl on January 13, 2017. Naik was […] Read more » death penalty
High Profile Cases Unnao rape case: Court adjourns till Friday hearing on sentence order against expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar. December 20, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court on Tuesday adjourned till December 20 the hearing on order for quantum of sentence against expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, convicted for raping a woman in Unnao in 2017. District Judge Dharmesh Sharma adjourned hearing in the case till Friday. The CBI sought maximum punishment for Sengar, saying it was a […] Read more » expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar Unnao rape case
High Profile Cases Life in Assam back on track as state remains peaceful December 20, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Normal life is back on track in Assam with the state remaining peaceful after several days of violent protests against the new citizenship law. The curfew imposed in Dibrugarh has been relaxed for 14 hours since 6 am on Thursday but mobile internet services remained suspended, officials said. The curfew imposed in Guwahati on December […] Read more » violent protests against the new citizenship law
High Profile Cases SC dismisses convict’s review plea in Nirbhaya case December 20, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the plea filed by one of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, seeking review of its 2017 judgement upholding his death penalty. A three-judge bench headed by Justice R Banumathi said there are no ground to review the 2017 verdict and the contentions raised […] Read more » Justice A.S. Bopanna Justice Ashok Bhushan Justice R. Banumathi Nirbhaya gang rape Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case review plea in Nirbhaya case
High Profile Cases Nirbhaya’s parents seek time-bound justice. December 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment It has been seven years to that fateful day when their daughter – who came to be known as ‘Nirbhaya’ – was brutally gangraped and thrown off a bus, but her parents still await justice. The tag of rape capital became all the more pronounced after the Nirbhaya incident but her parents say it is […] Read more » Nirbhaya's parents justice. Nirbhaya's parents seek time-bound justice.
High Profile Cases Bombay HC directs P Chidambaram and others to file statement in 10,000 cr damage suit by 63 Moons Technologies. December 16, 2019 / December 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay high court on Friday asked Congress leader P Chidambaram, former forward market commission (FMC) chairman Ramesh Abhishek and serving bureaucrat KP Krishnan to file their statements in the the Rs 10,000 crore damage suit by 63 Moons Technologies within four weeks. The bench said that if the trio fail to submit the statements within […] Read more » (FMC) chairman Ramesh Abhishek 63 Moons Technologies case against Ramesh Abhishek case against Ramesh Abhishek in Madras high court exchange ecosystem created by 63 Moons KP Krishnan Madras High Court MPID Act stand quashed National Spot Exchange Ltd NSEL NSEL payment crisis P Chidambaram Ramesh Abhishek Rs 10000 crore damage suit Rs 10000 crore damage suit by 63 Moons Technologies serving bureaucrat KP Krishnan
High Profile Cases Girl sexually assaulted inside her school toilet. December 14, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A seven-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by an unidentified man inside the toilet of her school in suburban Malvani, police said on Saturday. The incident occurred on Friday, they said. “As per the complaint lodged by the victim’s mother, her daughter was sexually assaulted inside the toilet of her school during the day on […] Read more » Girl sexually assaulted
