Top Law News Allahabad HC grants anticipatory bail to Siddharth Varadarajan May 16, 2020 / May 16, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Friday granted anticipatory bail to The Wire’s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan who was booked for making remarks against Chief Minister Yogi Adityananth. Two FIRs were registered at Kotwali Ayodhya police station against Varadarajan One of the FIRs was registered under various sections of the Indian Penal […] Read more » Allahabad HC Allahabad HC grants anticipatory bail anticipatory bail to Siddharth Varadarajan Disaster Management Act and Epidemic Diseases Act Indian Penal Code IT Act Justice Chandra Dhari Singh remarks against Chief Minister Yogi Adityananth. Two FIRs were registered at Kotwali Ayodhya police station against Varadaraj Siddharth Varadarajan
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Criminal Law News HC: Prescribing medicines without diagnosis amounts to culpable negligence July 27, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has turned down the anticipatory bail pleas of a doctor couple booked for the death of a woman patient,observing that prescribing medicines to patients without diagnosis amounted to culpable negligence. Justice Sadhana Jadhav made the observations yesterday while hearing the anticipatory bail pleas filed by a gynaecologist couple – Deepa and […] Read more » Deepa Pawaskar featured Indian Penal Code Justice Sadhana Jadhav Ratnagiri Police section 304
Top Law News Supreme Court holds Sidhu guilty in road rage case, spares him jail term May 15, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today convicted Punjab Tourism Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu for voluntarily causing hurt to a 65-year-old man but spared him a jail term in the 1988 road rage case. A bench of Justices J Chelameswar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul said Sidhu is guilty of Section 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal […] Read more » featured Gurnam Singh Indian Penal Code J Chelameswar Navjot Singh Sidhu Rupinder Singh Sandhu Sanjay Kishan Kaul Sidhu
Criminal Law News Top Law News Can’t frame guidelines on FIRs for dowry harassment cases: SC November 30, 2017 / November 30, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today said it does not intend to frame guidelines for the police regarding registration of FIRs on subjecting a married woman to cruelty for dowry, as the process has to be governed by statutory provisions. A bench, comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, apparently […] Read more » Code of Criminal Procedure Court dowry harassment cases featured Indian Penal Code Law Legal News Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Delhi HC rejects plea of suspected ISIS operative June 18, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has rejected a suspected ISIS operative’s plea seeking nod to inspect the documents, submitted by the NIA to a trial court in a case relating to the alleged charges of recruiting and financing people to join the terror group. A bench of justices G S Sistani and Vinod Goel said that […] Read more » Delhi HC rejects plea Delhi-based Islamic scholar Mufti Abdus Sami Qasmi featured Indian Penal Code IPC ISIS operative Justice G.S. Sistani Justice Vinod Goel offences under provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act suspected ISIS operative UAPA
Top Law News SFI, DYFI activists get bail March 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Eight leaders of the CPI(M)’s youth and student wings, arrested for damaging government properties during a demonstration last week, were granted bail today by a city court. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Satya Arnab Roy of Bankshall Court here granted bail to the eight activists of the Students Federation of India (SFI) and Democratic Youth Federation of […] Read more » Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Satya Arnab Roy of Bankshall Court Chief Public Prosecutor Pijush Kanti Mandal DYFI activists DYFI activists get bail featured Indian Penal Code Satya Arnab Roy of Bankshall Court SFI SFI activists
Top Law News Kejriwal put on trial in defamation case. October 23, 2016 / October 23, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was today put on trial by a city court for alleged offence of defamation in a criminal complaint filed against him by BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri. Metropolitan Magistrate Harvinder Singh passed the order after which the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader, who was present before the court, pleaded not guilty […] Read more » BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal featured Indian Penal Code Metropolitan Magistrate Harvinder Singh offence of defamation section 499 and 500 of Indian Penal Code
Criminal Law News Bilal sentenced to life for waging war against India October 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A city court today sentenced Imran alias Bilal, who has been convicted under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, including waging a war and conspiring against the Indian government, to undergo life imprisonment. Sessions Court Judge Kottaraiah M Hiremath awarded life imprisonment to Bilal, convicted yesterday, for committing crimes under Section 121 of IPC […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Imran alias Bilal Indian Penal Code Law Legal News war against India
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Criminal Law News Court denies NRI bail for Facebook post on Gujarat CM’s kin September 4, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A local court denied a pre-arrest bail today to a non-resident Indian (NRI) facing a case of allegedly posting a lewd message on Facebook about Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel’s granddaughter. rejected the application of the accused Roshan Shah since the offence is bailable and because anticipatory bail cannot be sought under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). As […] Read more » Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel's granddaughter Indian Penal Code INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT NRI bail Sessions Court Judge S J Raje sexual harassment
Top Law News Gauhati HC bench questions validity of CBI November 9, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A division bench of the Gauhati High Court has questioned the validity of India’s premier investigating agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation. Passing an order on a writ petition, the division bench comprising Justice I.A. Ansari and Indira Shah Wednesday set aside and quashed the very resolution issued by the union Home Ministry April 1, […] Read more » CBI Gauhati HC bench questions validity of CBI Indian Penal Code Justice I.A. Ansari Justice Indira Shah validity of CBI validity of CBI questioned by CBI
Top Law News Bombay HC sets aside life term awarded by lower court in killing case May 8, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment On the judgment of a lower court the Bombay High Court has quashed in which the lower court had awarded life sentence to a man in 2008 for killing his brother with a sickle over property dispute. During the hearing of an appeal, the court found the appellant guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder […] Read more » Bombay High Court eight years imprisonment Haridas Mahale Indian Penal Code killing case Life sentence section 304 part I of Indian Penal Code
Criminal Law News CBI gets transit remand of Rly board member in graft May 4, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment MUMBAI: A special court here on saturday granted the CBI two days’ transit remand of a Member of the Railway Board in an alleged graft case involving Railway Minister P K Bansal’s nephew. Mahesh Kumar, recently promoted as Member (Staff) of the Railway Board from the post of Western Railway General Manager, was arrested late […] Read more » Anti Corruption Wing of CBI CBI court Indian Penal Code Mahesh Kumar Member of the Railway Board P K Bansal Railway Minister P K Bansal Railway Minister P K Bansal's nephew the Prevention of Corruption Act Western Railway General Manager
