'To Err Is Human. Society Must Reform A Person Who Commits A Small Theft': Kerala High Court Quotes Poet Ayyappa Panicker

If a person commits a small theft, society must reform him, remarked Kerala High Court while acquitting a person convicted in a criminal case.Justice PV Kunhikrishnan began his judgment disposing this criminal appeal by quoting the line from the poem 'Moshanam' of the famous poet Ayyappa Panicker – "Just because I have stolen a few things, why should you call me a thief? The judge also...

S.18 of SC/ST Act-Unless The 'Offender's Action Is Impelled By The Consideration That The Victim Is A Member Of 'SC or ST', Bar For Anticipatory Bail Won't Apply

In a significant judgment, a Single Judge Bench of the Delhi High Court comprising of Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani on Tuesday while granting anticipatory bail to an accused charged under Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 held that the anticipatory bail application under Sec. 438 of CrPC can only be barred under Sec. 18 of the SC ST Act...

'Matter Of Public Importance Concerning Entire Scientific Community' : Delhi HC Refuses To Restrain LibGen Publications

The Delhi High Court today re-issued notice to Libgen on a copyright infringement plea by publishers Elsevier Ltd, Wiley India Pvt Ltd, and American Chemical Society, even as Sci-Hub undertook to restrain from publishing any articles from the publishers' journals on its website until the next date of hearing.While SciHub voluntarily made the undertaking, LibGen went unrepresented today as...

Individual Can't Decide How Law Enforcement Agency Should Act & When To Invoke Powers Under Preventive Detention Law: Telangana HC

In an important ruling, the Telangana High Court has held that it is not for the individual citizen to assess how the law enforcing agency should act but it is for that agency to come to subjective satisfaction of the need to resort to preventive detention. The Bench of Justice P. Naveen Rao also observed that the Court can't mandate the authority to do a particular act, in a...

Another Setback To CM Yediyurappa As Karnataka High Court Refuses To Quash Corruption Case Against Him

In another setback to Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday refused to quash an First Information Report (FIR) filed against him in the alleged illegal land de-notification case. The bench also imposed a cost of Rs 25,000 on him. A single bench of Justice John Michael Cunha, while dismissing the petition on Tuesday, said: "Since the allegations made...

Whether Vehicle Owner Himself Can Receive Compensation Under His Own Insurance Policy If He Was At Fault? Supreme Court To Examine

Whether the owner himself can be a recipient of the compensation under his own Insurance Policy, if he was at fault? The Supreme Court would examine this legal issue raised in a special leave petition filed against Allahabad High Court judgment.In this case, the person who was allegedly responsible for the accident was the person driving the vehicle whose wife died in the incident and the...

More Evidence Found Against Republic TV In TRP Scam Case, Mumbai Police Tells Bombay High Court

The Mumbai Police on Wednesday told the Bombay High Court that it has found more evidence against Republic TV in the Television Rating Points (TRP) scam case.In the light of that fact, the Mumbai police told the Court that it did not want to continue its earlier undertaking to refrain from taking coercive action against the accused in the case.This submission was made by the counsel of...

'Courts Are Physically Working": Allahabad High Court Closes Suo Moto PIL For Extension Of Limitation & Interim Orders During Lockdown

The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday closed the suo moto PIL registered by it for extension of limitation and interim orders expiring during the lockdown period. Looking to the physical working of the Courts in the State of Uttar Pradesh, a Division bench comprising of Justices Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Rohit Ranjan Agarwal observed that there is no need to continue the PIL to...

Delhi Court Dismisses Mehmood Pracha's Revision Against Trial Court Order on His Plea for Raid Footage As Not Maintainable

A Delhi Court has dismissed as not maintainable the Delhi riots lawyer Mehmood Pracha's revision petition against an order of the Trial Court which had which ordered for the video footage of the raid on his office to be preserved, but made no directions on his demand for a copy of the raid footage.Rejecting the revision, the Additional Sessions Judge has held that under Section 165(5) CrPC,...

Even If Prosecutrix Is Quite Friendly With A Man, He Doesn't Get License To Establish Sexual Relations Without Her Consent: J&K High Court

Noting that even if prosecutrix was quite friendly with the petitioner for a long time, yet the same does not give a license to the petitioner/accused to have sexual relations with her, without her consent, the Jammu & Kashmir High Court recently denied the benefit of regular bail to petitioner for offence under Section 376 IPC. Importantly, the Bench of Justice Sanjay...

Plea Against Colors TV Show 'Namak Isqh Ka': Allahabad High Court Directs Petitioner To Approach Competent Authority First

The Allahabad High Court has dismissed a PIL seeking to stop public exhibition of a new programme (serial) launched on Colors TV, titled "Namak Isqh Ka". A Lucknow based dance society, namely 'Cultural Quest' had approached the High Court stating that the show's promo wrongly puts a question mark upon marrying ladies who have danced on any occasion. They had contended that a TV...

'This Matter Has To Get Precedence' Madras HC Orders For A Comprehensive Roadmap For Clearing Pending Criminal Cases Against MPs And MLAs

A division bench of Madras High Court comprising of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice senthilkumar Ramamoorthy on Tuesday observed that a comprehensive road map must be made considering the "litigative resourcefulness" of the legislators against whom cases are pending in the trial courts and High Court to ensure that the cases are disposed of at the earliest. The...