Appeal Against Acquittal Of Accused In Hashimpura Massacre: Delhi HC Allows Prosecution To Adduce Additional Evidence On NHRC’s Plea [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court has allowed a petition filed by National Human Right Commission under Section 391 CrPC seeking permission to adduce additional evidence in the appeal against acquittal of accused in Hashimpura Massacre.The High Court has allowed the prosecution to lead additional evidence in respect of extracts of a General Diary Register maintained by Provincial Armed Constabulary...

Flight Op From T-1 To T-2: SC Refuses To Interfere With DIAL’s Order, Extends Deadline To Suggest Sectors For Part Shifting

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere with DIAL’s administrative order directing IndiGo, SpipceJet and GoAir to shift their flight operations to and fro Mumbai, Kolkata and Bengaluru from Terminal 1 to Terminal 2 of Indira Gandhi International Airport during the redevelopment of T-1.A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice DY Chandrachud refused to interfere with...

Telangana HC Advocates Association Proposes To Abstain From Court Work On 1 & 2 March To Protest Against Judicial Vacancies, Absence Of Regular CJ, Etc.

In a circular issued to all Advocates Associations in Telangana on Friday, the Telangana High Court Advocates Association proposed to abstain from Court work on 1st and 2nd March, to protest against various unaddressed grievances.The Circular calls out the Supreme Court and the Centre for their failure to address their demands on issues such as judicial vacancies and absence of a regular...

Tarun Tejpal's Plea For Quashing Rape Charges: Justice Nageswara Rao Recuses From Hearing The Case

Magazine Tehelka’s former editor Tarun Tejpal, facing trial in Goa for allegedly raping his junior colleague, has moved the Supreme Court (SC) challenging the Bombay High Court’s December 20, 2017 order which has dismissed his plea for quashing of charges against him in the alleged rape case.Tejpal’s petition came up for hearing before the bench of Justice SA Bobde and Justice L...

Assault On Delhi Chief Secy: Court Refuses Bail To AAP MLAs, Denies Custody To Police

A Delhi court on Friday declined to grant bail to two Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs –Amanatullah Khan and Prakash Jarwal – who have been in judicial custody following their arrest for allegedly assaulting Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash on February 19.Metropolitan Magistrate Shefali Barnala Tandon dismissed the bail plea of Khan and Jarwal while also refusing to grant their custody to...

Jharkhand HC Rejects Lalu’s Bail Plea In Fodder Scam Case

The Jharkhand High Court on Friday rejected the bail plea of RJD surpremo Lalu Prasad in fodder scam case related to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 89 lakhs from Deoghar treasury in Jharkhand.Giving the order, Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh said that he would consider the bail plea only after the convicts has undergone half period of the sentence. He added the fodder scam case was a very...

SC Issues Notice To UP Police On Ex-Minister Gayatri Prajapati's Plea For Regular Bail In Rape Case

A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice AK Sikri has issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh police on a petition filed by Ex- minister Gayatri Prajapati seeking regular bail in a rape case.Prajapati, who was a minister during Akhilesh Yadav has challenged the Allahabad High Court’s December 14, 2017 order denying him the regular bail.Prajapati’s counsel termed the case “false” and told...

SC Lawyer Moves NCPCR Against B’wood Singer Papon Kissing ‘Voice of India Kids’ Contestant ‘Inappropriately’ On Facebook Live

She raises concern over safety of minor girls participating in TV showsA Supreme Court advocate has filed a complaint with the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) against Bollywood singer Angarag Mahanta, known by his stage name Papon, for allegedly kissing a minor girl inappropriately and sexually abusing her demanding action under the POCSO Act.Papon is a jury member...

Allahabad HC Dismisses Petition For Independent Probe Into Yogi Adityanath's Role In Gorakhpur Riots; Upholds Refusal Of Sanction By State

The Allahabad High Court, on Thursday, upheld the State's refusal of sanction for prosecution of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in relation to the 2007 Gorakhpur riots.A Bench comprising Justice Krishna Murari and Justice Akhilesh Chandra Sharma, consequently, refused the plea for an independent investigation into the alleged role played by him as well.Factual matrixThe Court...

Drug Abuse In Children: Delhi HC Exhorts Police To Enforce Sec. 77 JJ Act By Treating Thinners, Whiteners, Correctors As Intoxicating Liquids [Read Order]

Disturbed at the growing menace of drug abuse among children, the Delhi High Court has directed the police to enforce Section 77 of the Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act, 2015 which provides for punishment to anyone giving intoxicating liquor/ drugs to children by treating thinners, whiteners, correction fluids, vulcanising solutions/ sulochans as “intoxicating liquor”.A bench of Justice Vipin...

Sohrabuddin Case: CBI Under UPA Fabricated The Fake Encounter Case, Sr Adv Mahesh Jethmalani To Bombay HC

A day after the Bombay High Court reiterated that the Central Bureau of Investigation is failing to assist the court while hearing revision applications challenging the discharge of certain accused in the alleged fake encounter case of Sohrabuddin Shaikh, senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani submitted that the entire case was fabricated by a politically motivated the CBI in 2005.Jethmalani...

Delhi HC Upholds Sajjan Kumar’s Anticipatory Bail, Dismisses SIT’s Plea

In a setback to Special Investigation Team probing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, the Delhi High Court on Thursday upheld the anticipatory bail granted to Congress leader Sajjan Kumar by a trial court in two of the cases registered against the killing of three persons in the riots.Justice Anu Malhotra dismissed the plea of SIT for cancellation of anticipatory bail granted to Kumar on...