[Delhi Riots] Delhi Court Casts Serious Doubt On Credibility Of Police Witnesses, Grants Bail To One On Ground Of Parity

A Delhi Court on Tuesday granted bail to one Amit Goswami in relation to the north east Delhi riots on the ground of parity while casting "serious doubt" on the credibility of police witnesses in the case. Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav granted relief to Amit Goswami on furnishing a bond of Rs. 20,000 with one surety of like amount in the case of vandalizing, looting and putting on fire...

Sunanda Pushkar Death Case- "No Question Of Abetment When Suicide Not Established": Shashi Tharoor Tells Delhi Court

"No cause of death was established in the case by the prosecution. It is not even established that she committed suicide. How can the question of abetment come here?"

Kerala High Court Directs Central Government To Review Certification Given To Film Maradu 357

The Kerala High Court has directed the Central Government to consider the representation of certain parties who were aggrieved by the grant of censor board certification to film Maradu 357. A Bench of Justice PV Asha issued the direction on a petition in response to a petition filed by Sandeep Mehta, KV Jose and Sany Francis who described themselves as aggrieved by the grant...

Allahabad High Court Grants Bail To Woman Accused Of Forcefully Converting Religion of 19-Yr Old

The Allahabad High Court recently granted bail to a woman, accused of abducting a 19-year-old girl and forcing her to convert her religion. The woman has been charged by the UP Police under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020. The provisions of the Ordinance, that have now taken force as an Act, declare unlawful religious conversion as...

Merely Executing Notarized Document Purporting To Adoption Deed Does Not Give A Right To Child Custody: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court recently refused permission to a couple to take custody over a two-year-old child on the strength of a "notarised adoption deed". A Bench of Justices SS Shinde and Manish Pitale ruled, "We are of the opinion that by merely executing a notarized document purporting to be an Adoption Deed, the petitioners cannot claim that they have a right to hold custody...

[Delhi Riots] Delhi Court Questions Police Over Non Maintenance Of Investigation File in Madina Masjid Vandalism Probe, Calls For Status Report

A Delhi Court on Thursday was surprised over the non maintenance of investigation file especially the case diaries and witnesses statements recorded probably after the last date of hearing in relation to the alleged burning of the Madina Masjid during the north-east Delhi riots that broke in February last year.Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav asked the police to file a status report in...

Non Issuance Of Duplicate Share Certificates Does Not Indicate Malice Of Company At The Inception Of Transaction: Calcutta High Court Quashes Cheating Case

The Calcutta High Court has quashed a criminal case of Cheating instituted against a company and its Directors over non-issuance of duplicate share certificates to the complainant, claiming to be a shareholder in the company. A Single Bench of Justice Suvra Ghosh held that mere non-issuance of duplicate share certificates on misplacement by an alleged shareholder does not indicate...

UP Panchayat Polls: Supreme Court Rejects Pleas Challenging High Court's Order Directing 2015 To Be Taken As Base Year For Reserving Seats

Supreme Court has on Friday refused to entertain a batch of pleas filed challenging the Allahabad High Court's order dated 15th March that directed State of UP to take 2015 as base year instead of 1995 for reserving seats in upcoming UP panchayat polls, and hold elections by May 25th.A three-judge Bench of CJI Bobde, Justice Bopanna and Justice Ramasubramanian heard the pleas. One of...

Advocate Mehmood Pracha Moves Additional Sessions Court Challenging CMM's Order Rejecting His Plea Against His Office Raids

Hours after CMM Pankaj Sharma passed an order rejecting Advocate Mehmood Pracha's application challenging Delhi Police Special Cell's raids in his office, he has approached the Additional Sessions Court against the order.The matter will be heard tomorrow by Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana at 10 AM.Advocate Mehmood Pracha in the presence of Advocate RK Wadhwa, President of the New...

Centre Notifies Amendments To Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act and Insurance Act

The Centre has notified amendments to Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act and Insurance Act.Both these amendments received the assent of the President of India yesterday (25th March), and shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.The Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill, 2020, was passed by Parliament on...

Delhi High Court Rejects RBI Appeal Against Order For Reconsideration Of JSPL Plea For $300 mln Remittance To Mauritius Subsidiary

The Delhi High Court today dismissed an appeal by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) against an earlier order of a Single-Judge which had directed the RBI to reconsider an application by Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) to transmit $300 million to its wholly owned subsidiary Jindal Steel and Power (Mauritius) Ltd (JSPML).Directing the central bank to reconsider its decision on JSPL's...

"Hands Of Investigators Cannot Be Tied": Delhi Court Rejects Plea By Mehmood Pracha Against His Office Raids

A Delhi Court on Friday disposed off Advocate Mehmood Pracha's application challenging Delhi Police Special Cell's second raid after observing that the objections raised by him are baseless.Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pankaj Sharma ordered thus:"The plea of the applicant about his offer of target data in Pen drive can only be considered by the IO subject to the issue of admissibility...