Source: thehindu.com Stressing the need to strictly punish offenders responsible for causing motor vehicle accidents, the Supreme Court has reiterated that a person can be prosecuted under both the Motor Vehicles (MV) Act and the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for driving dangerously. A Bench of Justice Indu Malhotra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna noted that there
Source: dailypioneer.com Based on observation mentioned earlier, the Supreme Court of India refused to appreciate any judicial pronouncement of the U.S. Supreme Court relating to criminalisation of defamation and its effect on freedom of speech. The Court gave no reasoning as to why relevant U.S. Supreme Court judgements, related to the matter being adjudicated, could
Source: tribuneindia.com Just over a year after former minister Tikshan Sood was summoned by a Hoshiarpur court to face trial on a complaint alleging filing of a false affidavit under the provisions of the Representation of Peoples Act and the Indian Penal Code, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today allowed his petition for quashing
Source: thehindu.com Former Union Minister discharged from Lucknow hospital on Monday A local court in Shahjahanpur on Monday rejected the bail plea of former Union Minister Swami Chinmayanand as well as that of the law student who has accused him of rape. Both are currently in judicial custody. While Mr. Chinmayanand is accused of misusing
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com SHAHJAHANPUR: An Uttar Pradesh court has rejected the bail application of BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand, who was arrested in a sexual-assault case following rape allegations by a law student. Shahjahanpur chief judicial magistrate has rejected the bail application of Chinmayanand on Monday, saying it should be moved in the sessions court, the former
Source: moneycontrol.com A 2004 sexual harassment case against angel investor Mahesh Murthy has been quashed by the Bombay High Court. The court noted that the complainant has not “properly explained” why a case was filed 14 years after the incident. The suburban Bandra Police had registered the case against Murthy in March 2018 under Indian Penal
Source: indiatoday.in Shehla Rashid, JNU student leader and aspiring politician from Kashmir, is the latest target of the sedition law. Her tweets on alleged army excesses in Kashmir prompted Supreme Court lawyer Alakh Alok Srivastava to file a complaint with the Delhi Police. Given that the complaint cites a cognisable offence under the Indian Penal
Source: hindustantimes.com Senior Communist Party of India (M) leader Sheikh Abdul Ghani was booked by the police in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior on Wednesday for allegedly selling a book on the abrogation of Article 370 a day earlier, officials said. The 74-year-old Ghani, who is a retired employee of BSNL, was booked for promoting enmity between
Source: thewire.in Mumbai: A Mumbai court on Tuesday awarded eight years’ rigorous imprisonment to gangster Chhota Rajan and five others for attempting to kill a city-based hotelier in 2012. Special court Judge A.T. Wankhede convicted the six under various sections of the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) and sections 307 (attempt to murder)
Source: hindustantimes.com Arguing on the framing of charges against Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in connection with the death of his wife, Sunanda Pushkar, the Delhi police told a city court on Tuesday that Pushkar’s body had 15 injury marks. These injuries were caused by the blunt force produced in a scuffle, police alleged. Pushkar was
