Source – ndtv.com MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday set aside the conviction and death penalty awarded to a man in a rape and murder case, noting that he was a juvenile at the time of the incident. A division bench of Justices BP Dharmadhikari and SK Shinde gave the ruling while hearing a petition
Source – thehindu.com The Bombay High Court on Friday dismissed a petition by Tehelka magazine founder Tarun Tejpal seeking postponement of trial, scheduled from October 21 to 23, in a sexual assault case lodged against him by a former woman colleague. Tarun Tejpal had moved the High Court against the October 7 order of additional
Source: newindianexpress.com CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Tuesday quashed a case filed against a city resident who was charged with raping his 11-year-old daughter and instead ordered a probe against his wife for filing what the court termed a false case. Justice N Anand Venkatesh, who got agitated during the hearing, said that the woman
Source: indianexpress.com Dismissing the revision plea of a Sonipat juvenile against his conviction in a rape case, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that the absence of external or internal injury on the victim’s body cannot discredit her allegation. “It shall not be appropriate to expect or presume that in all cases of
Source: freepressjournal.in Mumbai: The Bombay High Court recently granted protection from being arrested to a police officer of the Maharashtra Police Force, who is accused of raping a woman colleague. The HC while granting him relief noted that the accused as also the alleged victim were in a ‘consensual’ relationship. A bench of Justices Indrajit Mahanty
Source: thehindu.com The Congress on Monday appealed to the Supreme Court to take notice of the suspicious accident involving the Unnao rape survivor, and urged it to take over investigations into the rape case. Protests from the Opposition members over the issue led to a brief adjournment in the Rajya Sabha. Six Congress members in
Source: dnaindia.com The ruling CPI(M)’s state secretary, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, Monday said nobody attempted to settle the rape allegation levelled against his son Binoy Kodiyeri by a Mumbai-based woman. Balakrishnan, who addressed the media after a meeting of the party’s state committee, said he came to know about the complaint only after a court sent a
Source:-asianage.com Mumbai: The Bombay high court has rejected the bail application of a stepfather who was sentenced to life imprisonment by a sessions court. The high court refused to accept the accused’s contention that the prosecution had failed to prove the age of the victim as well as her pregnancy. A division bench of Justice
Source – indianexpress.com The Bombay High Court acquitted a man who had allegedly raped his neighbour when she had left her house to attend to nature’s call in an open field. In 2014, the Sessions Court convicted the accused on circumstantial evidence, as the prosecution had failed to examine the woman. The accused was sentenced
Source – dnaindia.com The Bombay High court on Monday upheld the conviction of a man charged under various Sections of the Protection of Children Against Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) for raping a minor girl. Justice AM Badar, while upholding the sentence of seven years given to Mohammed Azad Khan, rejected his argument that he and the
