Top Law News Judges suggest speedy trial ways, lawyers boycott December 31, 2012 / December 31, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Amid lawyers refusing to represent the accused in the gang rape-cum-murder case of 23-year-old paramedic, two women judges have come out with suggestions for effective fast-tracking of the trial. While Justice Gyan Sudha Misra, a sitting Supreme Court judge, suggested amendments to the Evidence Act to avoid recording of evidence at multiple stages to “cut-short” […] Read more » 23-year-old paramedic Amid lawyers Arguments crimes against women CROSS-EXAMINATION Delhi Police effective fast-tracking of the trial former Delhi High Court judge gang rape cum gang rape-cum-murder gangrape case Indian Evidence Act Justice Gyan Sudha Misra Justice Usha Mehra lawyers boycott police Supreme Court judge witness women judge
Top Law News HC to hear PIL against S-144 during anti-rape stir December 29, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court agreed to hear a PIL challenging imposition of prohibitory orders in and around India Gate here on the ground of maintaining public tranquility during the stir against the gang rape of a girl. “We are simply re notifying the matter on next Wednesday (January 2),” a bench of justices Siddharth Mridul […] Read more » Additional Solicitor General Siddharth Luthra city government Delhi High Court gang rape of a girl India Gate justices Siddharth Mridul and Pratibha Rani Ministry of Home Affairs Patiala House Court complex police prohibitory orders public tranquility section 144 of CrPC
Top Law News Restore security to standing counsel: HC to Delhi Police August 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has asked the Delhi police to restore its security cover to the city government’s Standing Counsel (Civil) Najmi Waziri and his family. A bench of Acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw asked the police to deploy its three personnel at Waziri home and provide a personal […] Read more » Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Delhi Police Delhi Police to Restore security to standing counsel Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw police Restore security to standing counsel: HC to Delhi Police
Top Law News Lack of dedicated police results in non-execution of summons June 25, 2012 / June 25, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The absence of dedicated police personnel for court-related duties is resulting in non-execution of summons and non-bailable warrants (NBWs), contributing to a delay in trials, the Law Commission has said. The Law Commission said in its report that at present police did not treat execution of NBWs as a priority. “The fact remains that police […] Read more » lack of dedicated police personnel lack of police personnel Law Commission Law commission report on police need for dedicated police personnel police police as the cause of delay in justice police as the cause of late justice
Media & Entertainment News Cash-for-votes: Police file supplementary chargesheet September 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The city police on Friday submitted to a Delhi court a supplementary chargesheet in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam which deals with its efforts to trace the source of money allegedly paid to the three erstwhile BJP MPs to get their votes in favour of the Congress-led UPA-I government’s trust motion. Public prosecutor Rajiv Mohan submitted […] Read more » cash-for-votes police Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal supplementary chargesheet
Top Law News Police told to give probe details on cash-for-vote case May 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday asked Delhi Police to explain what it had done thus far to probe bribery charges during a trust vote in parliament in 2008. Delhi Police Commissioner B.K. Gupta was asked by judges Aftab Alam and R.M. Lodha to file a status report on the investigation into charges that MPs were bribed […] Read more » B.K. Gupta cash-for-vote case chief election commissioner Delhi Police Commissioner details J.M. Lyngdoh judge Aftab Alam police probe R.M. Lodha
Top Law News Supreme Court warns police against custodial violence March 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday warned the police that acts of custodial violence will not be tolerated as they cannot behave like the “oppressors of the people”. An apex court bench of Justice Markandey Katju and Justice Gyan Sudha Misra, while warning the police, said: “Policemen must learn how to behave as public servants in a […] Read more » custodial violence Justice Gyan Sudha Misra Justice Markandey Katju Mahboob Batcha police Supreme Court warns
Criminal Law News Yeddyurappa faces police probe over land deal March 24, 2011 / March 24, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Bangalore court Thursday ordered a police probe into a private complaint against Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa over a land deal. The investigation is to be completed by May 4. The probe will be conducted by the police attached to the state Lokayukta (ombudsman), Additional City Civil and Sessions Judge C.B. Hipparagi ordered. He is […] Read more » Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa faces Governor H.R. Bhardwaj land deal police probe Sessions Judge C.B. Hipparagi Yeddyurappa
Top Law News Police told to probe child trafficking gangs March 16, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday took a serious view of police failure to trace missing children and directed Delhi Police chief to constitute a task force to find out if gangs were involved in child trafficking. The division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna pulled up police while referring to a […] Read more » child police probe trafficking gangs
Top Law News Court questions police on ‘wrongdoing’ in orphanage March 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Thursday asked Delhi Police whether they would investigate alleged trafficking of minor children from an orphanage here. Justice Ajit Bharihoke said: ‘Delhi Police are directed to clarify their stand whether or not they are inclined to investigate into the functioning of Bal Vihar Orphanage Centre from the angle of the trafficking […] Read more » Bal Vihar Orphanage Centre Court Delhi High Court orphanage police questions wrongdoing
Top Law News Human trafficking manual helps police in northeast February 20, 2011 / February 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment What does human trafficking mean, why is it done, what punishment can it attract and how do we rehabilitate victims? A manual on human trafficking brought out by an NGO is proving a boon for police in the northeast where trafficking is a major issue. Impulse, the NGO, has simplified the law and put it […] Read more » First Information Report (FIR) Hasina Kharbhih Human trafficking IAS (Indian Administrative Service) Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act IPS (Indian Police Service) Juvenile Justice Act manual northeast police
Top Law News Police to patrol ‘unsafe’ areas after BPO staffer’s gangrape November 27, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two days after a northeastern woman working in a BPO was abducted and gangraped in the capital, Delhi Police on Friday agreed to the demand of a northeast delegation that special patrolling will be done in ‘unsafe’ areas of the city. Madhu Chandra, spokesperson of the Northeast Support Centre and Helpline, who led a delegation […] Read more » 'unsafe Gangrape patrol police