Criminal Law News Death for Child Rape : Lok Sabha Passes Criminal Law Amendment Bill July 31, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment On Monday, July 30, the Lok Sabha passed Criminal Law(Amendment) Bill making rape of girl below the age of twelve years an offence punishable with death. The Bill seeks to amend provisions of Indian Penal Code(IPC), Code of Criminal Procedure, Evidence Act and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO). It replaced the Ordinance […] Read more » Child Rape Code of Criminal Procedure Criminal Law(Amendment) Bill death Evidence Act and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO). Indian Penal Code(IPC) Lok Sabha punishable
High Profile Cases Top Law News Police to court: Sunanda’s mail, messages taken as a “dying declaration” May 29, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment “I have no desire to live…all I pray for is death,” Sunanda Pushkar wrote in an e-mail to her husband Shashi Tharoor nine days before she was found dead in a luxury hotel room here, police has told a city court. The police also told the court that Sunanda’s death was due to poisoning and […] Read more » Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal death dying declaration featured Sunanda Pushkar
Top Law News High Court reprieve for woman, her parents in harassment, death case December 26, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Notices has been quashed by the Bombay High Court which were issued by a lower court against the three after observing that the deceased died due to natural reasons, to rescue of a woman and her parents, accused of causing mental harassment and death of her father-in-law, Justice K U Chandiwal was hearing a petition filed by […] Read more » Amit and Deeksha Bombay High Court death death of father Deeksha Bhandari Delhi Police High Court hyper-sensitivity hyper-tension Justice K U Chandiwal mental harassment natural reasons North Rohini police station police authorities Pradeep kumar Bhandari
Top Law News ”Take these men off death row” July 7, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Prabha Sridevan In no fewer than 13 cases, the Supreme Court has held the death sentence to have been wrongly given. The mistakes must be corrected before it’s too late. With a dark and chilling feeling we recently read about the wrong Carlos who was executed in the United States for a crime he […] Read more » capital punishment controversy regarding death sentence death death penalty death row controversy death sentence decisions on death penalty execution of death sentence supreme court judgement on death penalty
Top Law News Anna Hazare plans fast unto death for strong Lokpal bil April 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Anna Hazare plans fast unto death for strong Lokpal bil Veteran social activist Anna Hazare Monday said he is starting a “fast unto death” to press for the demand to involve civil society in formulation of the anti-graft Lokpal (ombudsman) Bill. “I will fast unto death, as announced earlier, as the prime minister has refused to form a joint committee with civil society members in […] Read more » activist Arvind Kejriwal Anna Hazare death fast kapil sibal Lokpal bil National Advisory Council plans Prashant Bhushan
Top Law News Kachru ragging death: Convict moves high court December 1, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Three weeks after a Dharamsala court held four senior medical students guilty and sentenced them to four years’ rigorous imprisonment in the Aman Kachru ragging-to-death case, one of the convicts Wednesday moved the Himachal Pradesh High Court against the decision. Naveen Verma’s petition challenging the conviction that was listed for admission in the court of […] Read more » death Kachru ragging
Top Law News Four convicted in Aman Kachru ragged-to-death case November 12, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here Thursday held four medical students guilty of ragging to death their junior Aman Kachru in March last year. Ajay Verma, Naveen Verma, Abhinav Verma and Mukul Sharma from the Rajendra Prasad Medical College and Hospital in Tanda in Kangra district were found guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder by Additional […] Read more » Aman Kachru case convicted death four ragged
Top Law News Man gets death sentence for raping, killing child October 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district Wednesday sentenced a man to death for the rape and murder of a minor girl, police said. Additional Sessions Judge Rajendra Singh handed down the death sentence to Guddu alias Jitendra Kumar, a native of Gajnera village in Bareilly, some 250 km from here. Kumar had raped the […] Read more » child death killing raping sentence
Top Law News Kasab death penalty: Case in high court Monday October 17, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Unprecedented security arrangements have been made at the Bombay High Court where the hearing on the confirmation of the death sentence to Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab begins on Monday. Kasab will not be present in person but participate in the proceedings through related stories The day-to-day hearing will be taken up before a […] Read more » case death High Court Kasab penalty
Top Law News BKI terrorist Jagtar Hawara’s death sentence commuted to life October 12, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Punjab and Haryana High Court Tuesday commuted to a life term the death sentence awarded to notorious Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorist Jagtar Singh Hawara. Hawara was a mastermind of the assassination of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh at the high-security state secretariat complex here Aug 31, 1995. The high court, however, upheld […] Read more » BKI commuted death Jagtar Hawara life sentence terrorist
Top Law News Kasab death penalty: Arguments in high court begin Oct 18 October 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The decks were finally cleared Thursday in the Bombay High Court for the commencement from Oct 18 of the second phase of the legal case against Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab. The Maharashtra government’s counsel Ujjwal Nikam, who appeared in the trial in the special court which awarded Kasab the death sentence May 6, […] Read more » Arguments begin death High Court Kasab Oct 18 penalty
Top Law News Death for six in double-murder case July 31, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A local court in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district Friday gave death sentence to six people in a double-murder case of August 2000, an official said. The special sessions court in Bijnor, some 300 km from Lucknow, gave the death penalty to the six people in connection with the killing of Mubarak Hussain and his nephew […] Read more » death double murder case six
