Top Law News HC relies on dog’s evidence’, upholds conviction April 1, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has held a man guilty in a robbery and murder case and upheld the life sentence given to him by a lower court on the evidence of police dog. Another person was held guilty on the basis of witness identification parade, while three others were acquitted. Division bench of Justices P D Kode […] Read more » Ashok Chavan Bombay High Court Chandya Pawar Ejabool Jan Mohammed Shaikh Justice P.D. Kode Justice V. K. Tahilramani Kathalya alias Ramesh Raja Chavan life imprisonment Mamta Cooperative Housing Society Manojkumar Gupta Mumbai Sewri Sessions Court upholds conviction
Criminal Law News Vikas, Vishal to stay in Tihar till HC verdict in Katara case: March 22, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Vikas and Vishal Yadav, undergoing life imprisonment in the Nitish Katara murder case, will not be shifted from Tihar jail to any other prison till the Delhi High Court pronounces its verdict on the appeals filed in the case, according to the jail authorities. Appearing before a bench of Justice Gita Mittal and Justice JR […] Read more » Bharati Yadav's affair Home Department of the Delhi government Katara case Law Officer life imprisonment Nitish Katara murder case special public prosecutor Dayan Krishnan Sunil Gupta Tihar Jail Tihar Jail authorities Vikas Vikas and Vishal Yadav Vishal Yadav
Criminal Law News IIM prof Amrita Pancholi murder: life term to driver March 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Life Imprisonment has been given as a reward by a local court to Anil Patel, the driver of slain IIM professor Amrita Pancholi, for murdering her in 2009. “The additional district judge Ashish Dixit also handed down two-year jail term to Patel’s accomplice Bhavesh Soni on the charges of keeping the custody of valuables stolen from […] Read more » IIM prof Amrita Pancholi murder IIM professor Amrita Pancholi life imprisonment Life Imprisonment by court murder section 394 of IPC and section 397 of IPC sections 302 (murder) of IPC
Top Law News Execution of Veerappan aides stayed for 6 weeks February 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The stay on the execution of four associates of the slain forest brigand, Veerappan has been extended by the Supreme Court extended who were convicted of killing 22 persons in a landmine blast in 1993 and whose mercy petitions were rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee. A Bench of Chief Justice Altamas Kabir and Justices Anil R. […] Read more » Additional Solicitor General Harin Raval Bilavendran Chief Justice Altamas Kabir Colin Gonsalves Gnanaprakash justice Justices Anil R. Dave landmine blast life imprisonment Madaiah mercy petitions physically debilitated President Pranab Mukherjee sentence of death Simon Supreme Court TADA court Vikramajit Sen
Criminal Law News High Court upholds life sentence for husband for torching wife February 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Observing that it was a serious crime against humanity, the Bombay High Court has upheld a lower court’s judgment awarding life imprisonment to a 25-year-old man for sexually harassing his wife and eventually setting her on fire. The mother-in-law of the victim was also convicted and sentenced to life on charges of murder along with […] Read more » Belati village in Solapur Bombay High Court common intention gram panchayat harass by mother judgment of the court Justice Sadhna Jadhav Justice VK Justice VK Tahilramani life imprisonment sex maniac and used to consume tablets sexual of wife sexually following sexually harassing
Criminal Law News High Court upholds life sentence for mother who killed child February 13, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The life imprisonment imposed by a lower court on a young woman who jumped from the terrace of her house along with her 15-day old baby with a view to kill the child and herself in this matter the Bombay High Court has upheld. However, finding the infant still alive, the mother stabbed the infant […] Read more » Bombay High Court infant with a kitchen knife justices Sadhana Jadhav kitchen knife life imprisonment mother who killed child Savita Bhosale VK Tahilramani Yerwada prison
Criminal Law News Man jailed for life for raping pregnant relative January 29, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Life imprisonment has been given by the fast track court to a 35 year old man for the raping a pregnant relative here in Delhi, according to court stern punishment should be given to him as women in the society need to be protected The special fast track court, set up to try exclusively cases of […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Nivedita Anil Sharma compensation of Rs three lakh Delhi Victims Compensation Scheme fast track cour gang rape guilty of raping intimidating and wrongfully confining the victim life imprisonment rape rape of pregnant women special fast track court state government
Criminal Law News Youth gets life imprisonment for rape & murder January 22, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A youth has been awarded life imprisonment by sessions court for the rape and murder of his 19-year-old colleague on the premises of a garment factory here in 2010. Special Judge P V Ganediwala awarded life-term to 24-year-old Nagendra Paswan, hailing from UP, after finding him guilty under sections 302 (murder) and 376 (punishment for […] Read more » 17 witnesses 19-year-old colleague 2010 murder case 2010 rape case Dadar police station factory in suburban Dadar life imprisonment rape and murder sessions court for the rape and murder Special Judge P V Ganediwala to 24-year-old Nagendra Paswan
Criminal Law News Judge refuses to recuse self from Naroda Gaam case January 12, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Special Trial Court for the 2002 Naroda Gam massacre rejected an application by former BJP minister Maya Kodnani and two others where they had sought recusal of the trial judge, Jyotsana Yagnik. Yagnik is the judge who convicted the three in another 2002 riots case, Naroda Patiya, and sentenced them to life imprisonment. The […] Read more » 2002 riots case Babu Patel alias Bajrangi former BJP minister Maya Kodnani Gaurang Vyas High Court Kishan Korani life imprisonment Naroda Gam Naroda Gam case Naroda Gam case by Chief Justice of the HC Naroda Gam massacre Naroda Patiya S H Vora Special Trial Court undergoing trial in the case
Top Law News Supreme Court anguished on tardy trial in lower courts December 29, 2012 / December 29, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has expressed anguish over “unhappy state of affairs” of lower courts which take years in concluding the trial and said the proceedings must be concluded within a reasonable time. A bench of justices Swatanter Kumar and Madan B Lokur said the governments and the courts must gear up the administrative machinery for […] Read more » 1983 murder case bench of justices Swatanter Kumar and Madan B Lokur charge sheet charge sheet was filed in 1987 conclusion of trial life imprisonment quick disposal of cases Supreme Court trialof 14 years unhappy state of affairs
Top Law News Courts must ensure speedy trial in rape cases: Supreme Court December 27, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Before the brutal gang-rape of the medical student in Delhi, the Supreme Court judgement was made in 10 days which has triggered nation-wide protests and calls for fast track courts to adjudicate rape cases. A bench of justices Swatanter Kumar and Fakkir Mohammed Ibrahim Kalifulla gave their judgement on December 6, 10 days before the Delhi […] Read more » adjudicate rape cases brutal gang-rape CrPC for the trial court Fakkir Mohammed Ibrahim Kalifulla justices Swatanter Kumar life imprisonment rape cases section 376 (rape) sections 376 A to D of the IPC Supreme Court judgement
Top Law News Life term to woman for strangulating husband December 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A woman, who had strangulated her husband two years ago here allegedly to marry another man, has been awarded life imprisonment by a Delhi court. The court, however, acquitted the woman’s alleged paramour of the charges of murdering her husband Shivnath due to lack of evidence against him. District Judge O P Gupta also imposed […] Read more » Delhi court District Judge O P Gupta life imprisonment section 302 (murder) of the IPC