Calcutta HC Directs Expeditious Video Linking Of Prisons, Police Station & Courts [Read Order]

The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the State Government to expedite the process of video linkage between correctional homes, courts and police stations. The bench of Justice Suvra Ghosh and Justice Joymalya Bagchi remarked that the process was crucial to ensure seamless and quick production of undertrials via video linkage, in order to avoid systemic delays arising out...

Nirbhaya Case: New Bench To Hear Convict's Review Petition Against Death Sentence Tomorrow

A three Judge Bench comprising of Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and AS Bopanna will hear at 10.30 am Tomorrow the review petition of Akshay Kumar Singh, one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape -murder case.Earlier Today Chief Justice of India S A Bobde recused from hearing the review petition of Akshay Kumar Singh.This was after CJI Bobde happened to spot the name...

Investigation Of Non-Cognizable Offences: Karnataka HC Issues Directions [Read Order]

Karnataka High Court has issued guidelines to be followed by Judicial Magistrates, as to how they have to approach and pass orders when requisition is submitted by the SHO of police station seeking permission to investigate, non-cognizable offence. Justice P G M Patil said "Subsection (2) of Section 155 of Cr.P.C. makes it clear that the Magistrate has to pass an 'order'...

Gauhati HC Directs Centre To Consider Restoring Mobile Internet[Read Order]

The Gauhati High Court directed the Governments of Centre and Assam to consider restoring mobile internet services from 3 PM on Tuesday.If there is no untoward incident, the Governments can consider longer periods of continuation of internet, so that normalcy is returned to all walks of life, observed the Court. The Court will further consider the matter on Thursday."Having considered all...

Dying Declaration Can't Be Ignored Just On The Ground That It was Recorded By An Executive Magistrate: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

Delhi High Court has held that a dying declaration would simply not become unreliable, just because it was recorded by an Executive Magistrate instead of a Judicial Magistrate. The Single Bench of Justice IS Mehta has noted that once it is ascertained that the dying declaration was made voluntarily and is truthful, the fact that it was reported by an Executive...

Students, Alumni From 19 Foreign Universities Including Harvard And Yale Express Solidarity With Aligarh And Jamia Students; Seeks Independent Probe Into Abuse Of Power By Police

Universities across the USA have issued a joint statement, expressing solidarity with students of Jamia Millia Islamia University and Aligarh Muslim University, in their standoff against the Citizenship Amendment Act. While terming the Act as "unconstitutional" and "discriminatory" and while also condemning the use of police violence against students on December 15, 2019, the...

Electronic Voting Machines Not 'Information' Under RTI Act: Delhi HC

The Court held that production of EVM models cannot be sought on RTI application.

'Whether Retweeting A Defamatory Tweet Amounts To Offence': Delhi HC Issues Notice On Kejriwal's Plea

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice to Delhi opposition leader Vijender Gupta in an application filed by Arvind Kejriwal challenging a summons issued against him in a criminal defamation case.While issuing notice, the Single Bench of Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar also reserved order on whether to stay the proceedings against Kejriwal pending before the Magistrate. The Delhi Chief...

Prof. Shamnad Basheer & Justice Ravindra Bhat Amongst 50 Most Influential People in IP 2019

Late Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer and Justice S. Ravindra Bhat are the two Indians who made it to the list of 50 Most Influential People in IP 2019. Prof. Basheer was an Indian legal scholar and founder of the blog SpicyIP. He was also the founder of IDIA, a trust which works on making legal education accessible for underprivileged students. He has been recognized as one of the...

Poverty/Deemed Indigent Status Of Accused Is An Extremely Important Factor For Granting Bail: Reiterates HP HC [Read Order]

While recapitulating the principles to be followed by courts while granting bail, the Himachal Pradesh High Court highlighted that poverty or the deemed indigent status of an accused must be taken into account while granting bail. In Dataram Singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr., Crl. Apl. No. 227/2018, the Supreme Court had held, "The poverty or the deemed indigent status of...

Delhi HC Grants More Time To CBI To Complete Investigation Against Rakesh Asthana

The Delhi High Court on Monday granted more time to CBI to complete investigation against the agency's former Director Rakesh Asthana. In yesterday's hearing, CBI sought an adjournment as the ASG designated to argue for the agency was busy in the Supreme Court. CBI also informed the court that four out of the eight stages of the investigation have been completed, and...

Students From Law Schools Across The Country Express Solidarity With Aligarh And Jamia Students

On Monday, a joint statement was issued by the student bodies of NLS, NUALS, NALSAR, MNLU Mumbai, MNLU Nagpur, NLUO, HNLU and NUSRL expressing solidarity with the students of Jamia Milia Islamia (JMI), Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), and the Arts Faculty of Delhi University (DU). Similar statements were issued by the Student Council of NLUD, NLUJ and...