Can One Inflict So Much Cruelty On Minor Girl To Pacify One's Lustful Hunger?: UP Court Awards Death Sentence In Minor's Rape-Murder Case

An Uttar Pradesh Court (Bahraich District Court) earlier this month awarded the Death Penalty to a tractor driver (Phoolchand) in connection with the rape and brutal murder of a 14-year-old girl as the Court wondered -can a man inflict so much cruelty on a minor girl just to pacify his lustful hunger? Finding that the case fell in the rarest of rare category, the Additional...

'Voice Of The Oppressed Not Meant To Be Criminalised': Madras HC Quashes FIR Against Director Pa. Ranjith Over Comments On Chola Empire

The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court has quashed criminal proceedings initiated against Film Director Pa. Ranjith for his remarks on the Chola era during a public gathering in 2019.The Court was of the view that the criticism meted upon the Chola Kingdom by the Director was based on historical books. The petitioner did not exceed the limit to freedom of speech under Article 19 (1)(a) of...

Lucknow District Court Violence Incident: Allahabad High Court Asks DCP To Complete Probe, File Report In A Week

The Allahabad High Court last week asked the Deputy Commissioner of Police, West Zone, Lucknow to file a report on the violent behavior of the lawyers outside the Lucknow District Court campus that took place on October 30.The Bench of Justice Shamim Ahmed and Justice Rakesh Srivastava posted the matter for further hearing on November 30, after Deputy Commissioner of Police, Lucknow Somen...

Weight Of Blotter Paper Containing LSD Will Have To Be Considered For Determining Small Or Commercial Quantity Of Offending Drug: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court on Monday ruled that the blotter paper forms an integral part of the Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) drug when put on it for consumption and that the weight of such blotter paper containing LSD will have to be considered for the purpose of determining small or commercial quantity of the offending drug.Justice Revati Mohite Dere was dealing with an appeal filed by...

Policemen Assaulting Judge : Bihar DGP Submits Report To Patna High Court In Sealed Cover

On a shocking allegation of police brutality unleashed upon an Additional District and Sessions Judge from Madhubani, the Director-General of Police, Bihar appeared before the Patna High Court today. The report under his signature was handed over in a sealed cover to the High Court. Today, Justice Rajan Gupta has opened the seal, perused the details about the incident, and ordered...

Bar Association Essentially A Private Body, Writ Won't Lie For Dispute Over Its Office Bearer: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has observed that disputes regarding the office bearer of a Bar Association can't be decided in a writ petitioner as the Bar Associations are essential private bodies."The Bar Association remains essentially a private body and in respect of dispute of its office bearer a writ petition ordinarily would not lie", the Bench of Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice...

Appointment Of 5-Year Old As Temple Priest Part Of Centuries-Old Custom; Right To Education Not Violated : AG Tells Madras HC

In a PIL challenging the appointment of a five-year-old boy as the pujari at a temple in the Nilgiris, allegedly deprived of education at a tender age, Madras High Court has allowed the Advocate General two weeks' time to file a counter. Today, the first bench of Acting Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice P.D Audikesavalu took note of the status report filed by...

Calcutta High Court Issues Notice On Plea Seeking Installation Of CCTV Cameras, Deployment Of Women Constables In Women Compartments Of Local Trains

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday issued notice on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition seeking directions for ensuring protection of women travelling in all women compartments in the local trains. The petition moved by advocate Mousomee Shome seeks deployment of railway police personnel i.e. lady constable in all local trains in the State of West Bengal and also for the installation...

Can't Wake Up Someone Pretending To Sleep : Kerala High Court Over Ineffective Implementation of Victim Protection Scheme By Police

The Kerala High Court on Monday yet again accentuated the insufficiency and lack of implementation of the victim protection system intended for sexual-assault survivors in the State.Justice Devan Ramachandran was adjudicating upon a plea filed by a sexual attack survivor alleging harassment from the accused and two police officers. The issue concerned the Court after numerous cases reached...

'Gravity Of The Offence': Calcutta High Court Rejects Anticipatory Bail Plea Of Mamata Banerjee's Polling Agent Sheikh Sufiyan In WB Post Poll Violence Case

The Calcutta High Court on Monday rejected the anticipatory bail plea moved by TMC leader Sheikh Sufiyan in the West Bengal post-poll violence case currently being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Notably, Sufiyan was the polling agent of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram for the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections. Chief Minister Banerjee had lost...

Dadri MLA Murder- 'Absconding' Can't Be Treated As Incriminating Evidence: Ut'khand HC Acquits Man Serving Life Sentence

Holding that conviction cannot be based only on the ground that the alleged accused has absconded, the Uttarakhand High Court last week acquited a man convicted of murdering then Dadri (Uttar Pradesh) MLA, Mahendra Singh Bhati around 29 years back.The Bench of Chief Justice R. S. Chauhan and Justice Alok Kumar Verma set aside a 2015 judgment of the Special CBI court which had convicted...

This Is Khaki Ego & Arrogance: Kerala High Court On Pink Police Officer Harassing Minor

The Kerala High Court on Monday expressed its astonishment with the inaction of the respondents in the matter where a pink police officer had allegedly mortified an 8-year-old child and her father in public, accusing them of theft.After a CD containing the video of the incident was played in the courtroom, Justice Devan Ramachandran was visibly distressed and moved."The visuals are...