Top Law News FSL pulled up for having non-competent officers December 26, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Irked over non-availability of competent forensic experts for conducting DNA examination, a Delhi court has directed a forensic science laboratory (FSL) here to hold the test again on an accused in a gangrape case of a minor girl in a moving car in 2010. The court’s order came after the prosecutor submitted to it that the […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau destruction of evidence DNA / finger printing examination DNA examination Forensic Science Laboratory gang rape gangrape case kidnapping murder National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories Rohini-based FSL
Top Law News Girl acquitted of murder charges August 4, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A girl aged 19, Anusha (name changed) has been acquitted of murder charges of her father. She murdered her father when her father attempted to rape and kill her. The Madras high court, took note of the circumstances under which she committed the murder, has quashed the case against her and left her free of murder […] Read more » Madras High Court murder murder charges murder in case of self defence murder of father by daughter murder to avoid rape
Top Law News Murder of Paramour: Woman got 7 yrs RI July 25, 2012 / July 25, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A widow has been sentenced to seven years rigorous imprisonment by a local court for murder of her paramour, a Roman catholic priest. District and sessions judge S Solaimalai also slapped a fine of Rs 500 on Stella Mary, in default of which she would have to undergo two years RI and another Rs 200 fine […] Read more » murder Murder of Paramour punishment for Murder RI for murder rigorous imprisionment for murder
Criminal Law News Ex-navy man, starlet sentenced for TV executive’s murder July 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Ex-naval officer Jerome Mathew was sentenced to 10 years in jail for the 2008 murder of TV executive Neeraj Grover for allegedly having an affair with his girlfriend Maria Monica Susairaj. The actress got a three-year term for destroying evidence, but would walk free for time done as an undertrial. Mathew and Susairaj were sentenced […] Read more » Ex-navy man murder sentenced starlet TV executive
Top Law News Two get life term for judo coach’s murder December 17, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two men were sentenced to life imprisonment by a fast track court here Friday for murdering judo coach Biranchi Das, who had trained child marathon runner Budhia Singh. Judge Vivekananda Das of the first track court III awarded life term to Raja Acharya and his associate Akhya Behera, special government prosecutor Sidhartha Das told reporters. […] Read more » judo coach murder
Top Law News ‘Barbaric’ murder of wife deserves noose: Apex court November 12, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Crimes against women are ‘social crimes’ and ‘disrupt the entire social fabric’, the Supreme Court Friday noted and asked a man convicted of murdering his wife why his life imprisonment should not be enhanced to death sentence. The ‘brutal and barbaric’ murder of a wife that ‘outrages the modern conscience’ belongs to the rarest of […] Read more » apex court Barbaric deserves murder noose wife
Top Law News Former Kerala cop gets life term for Maoist’s murder October 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A 40-year-old case came back to haunt a retired Kerala police officer Thursday when he was sentenced to life imprisonment by a CBI Special Court for killing a Maoist leader in cold blood and passing it off as a shootout. Retired Inspector General of Police K. Lakshmana, now 74, was found guilty of murdering the […] Read more » cop Former Kerala life Maoist murder term
Top Law News Bangalore cabbie gets life term for Pratibha murder October 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Bangalore cabbie gets life term for Pratibha murder Bangalore taxi driver Shiva Kumar was Friday sentenced to “life imprisonment till death” for the 2005 rape and murder of Hewlett Packard (HP) India employee Pratibha Murthy, prompting her mother to say tearfully that her daughter’s soul would now rest in peace. Judge B.V Guddali of the 11th fast track court pronounced the judgment in […] Read more » Bangalore cabbie life murder Pratibha term
Top Law News Apex court clears way for verdict in builder’s murder case October 5, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday cleared the way for the pronouncement of a special TADA court’s verdict in the 1995 murder of real estate builder Pradeep Jain. Underworld don Abu Salem is the prime accused in the case. The judgment was given by Justice R.M. Lodha. The apex court had earlier asked the trial court to […] Read more » apex court builder case murder verdict
Top Law News BJP lawmaker gets jail for murder in Kandhamal riots September 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A fast-track court in Orissa Thursday sentenced Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Manoj Pradhan to six years’ rigorous imprisonment for a murder during the 2008 communal riots in Kandhamal district, a lawyer said. Judge C.R. Das of the the fast-track court II at Phulbani, the district headquarters of Kandhamal, handed down the sentence to Pradhan […] Read more » BJP jail Kandhamal riots lawmaker murder
Top Law News Woman, lover get life for fiance’s murder July 15, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 3 Comments on Woman, lover get life for fiance’s murder A woman, her boyfriend and two others were Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment by a court for murdering her fiance within three days of their engagement in 2003. Fast Track Court Judge Vanti Kodi, who awarded life sentence to all the four, also imposed a fine of Rs.75,000 on the woman, S. Shubha. Her boyfriend, […] Read more » fiance's murder
Top Law News BJP lawmaker gets seven-year jail for Kandhamal murder June 29, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A fast track court in Orissa Tuesday sentenced Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Manoj Pradhan to seven years imprisonment in a murder case during the 2008 communal riots in Kandhamal. Judge Sobhan Kumar Das of the fast track court I in Kandhamal handed down the sentence to Pradhan and another accused, Prafulla Mallik, for the […] Read more » Kandhamal murder