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Motive Loses Significance When Crime Proved By Ocular Evidence: Allahabad High Court Upholds Conviction In 2015 Murder Case
The Allahabad High Court recently observed that the prosecution's case cannot be thrown out on the ground that the motive is not proved or that there is some doubt about it, if the occurrence is proved by ocular evidence. A bench of Justice Rajnish Kumar and Justice Zafeer Ahmad thus upheld the conviction and life sentence awarded to appellant-Hareram Chaudhary for the...
Can Customer Of Sex Worker Be Prosecuted For Trafficking? Telangana High Court Explains Scope Of Sections 370 & 370A IPC
The Telangana High Court has held that a customer of a sex worker cannot be prosecuted for the offence of trafficking under Section 370 of the IPC; however the customer can be prosecuted under Section 370A(2) IPC if the sex worker is a trafficked person and the customer had knowledge or reason to believe the same. [2026 LiveLaw (Tel) 88]For context, Section 370 IPC states that whoever, for...
Telangana High Court Refuses To Quash Suicide Abetment FIR Against Journalist, Advocate Over Allegedly Defamatory YouTube Interview
The Telangana High Court has refused to quash abetment to suicide FIR under Section 108 BNS registered against a journalist and an advocate, over an interview containing defamatory statements against the deceased uploaded on YouTube and circulated on social media. [2026 LiveLaw (Tel) 87]The allegation was that in an interview given to the journalist in the presence of the advocate, relatives...
Widowed Jethani Living Separately Unlikely To Benefit From Alleged Dowry: Rajasthan High Court Quashes Case
The Rajasthan High Court has quashed the criminal proceedings under Section 498A IPC against a woman's sister-in-law (jethani), holding that the latter being a widow and living separately from the in-laws family was unlikely to benefit from the alleged dowry or to harass the complainant (woman). [2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 246]The bench of Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand held that the...
Madhya Pradesh High Court Lifts Stay On Arrest Warrant Against TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee In BJP Leader's Defamation Case
The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Wednesday (June 17) lifted an interim stay on execution of arrest warrants issued by the trial court against TMC National General Secretary and Member of Parliament Abhishek Banerjee in a defamation case, after no one appeared on his behalf in the matter. [2026 LiveLaw (MP) 215]Banerjee had moved a plea challenging arrest warrants issued by the trial court in...
Pre-Existing Medical Condition Can't Defeat Murder Charge When Post-Mortem Attributes Death To Alleged Assault: J&K&L High Court
The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held that when a post-mortem report states that death was caused by “Recurrent acute on chronic SDH with complications” and links it to the assault, the assault must be treated as the root cause of death at the stage of framing charges.The Court further held that the existence of a pre-existing condition or the possibility that the hematoma...
No Use Expressing Dissent On Social Media If One Can't Stand By Truth In Court: Madras High Court To Students Turning Hostile In Murder Trial
While dealing with a criminal appeal of a murder convict, the Madras High Court expressed displeasure in the manner in which the students, who had witnessed the attack on their fellow classmate by the accused, had turned hostile during trial. 2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 255 The bench of Justice Anand Venkatesh and Justice KK Ramakrishnan remarked that it was disappointing to see...
Before Issuing NBW Against Accused On Bail, Court Should Consider Notice To Bailors Or Bailable Warrant: Orissa High Court
The Orissa High Court has held that a Non-Bailable Warrant (NBW) should not ordinarily be issued against an accused who is on bail, without first resorting to issuance of notice to his bailors and issuing bailable warrant, if needed.While setting aside an order directing issuance of NBW, the Bench of Justice Gourishankar Satapathy observed–“Liberty of a person cannot be taken away...
Trial Court Can't Summon Doctor In Medical Negligence Case Without Awaiting Expert Opinion It Sought: Punjab & Haryana High Court
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has set aside a summoning order issued against a doctor in a criminal complaint alleging medical negligence, holding that the trial court acted perversely in proceeding without awaiting an expert opinion which it had itself directed to be obtained.Justice Surya Pratap Singh noted, "it abundantly clear that there was a direction by the learned trial Court to...
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) And Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Monthly Digest: May 2026
SUPREME COURT Pre-Cognizance Hearing Of Accused Mandatory For PMLA Complaint When Cognizance Taken After BNSS: Supreme Court Cause Title: PARVINDER SINGH VERSUS DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT In an important ruling, the Supreme Court has held that where cognizance of an alleged offence under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 is taken by a magistrate after the commencement of...