Delhi HC Suggests Correctional Measures For Reforming Rape Convict [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the superintendent at Tihar Jail to consider appropriate correctional measures to reform a rape convict sentenced to 10-year imprisonment.A division bench comprising Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhotra modified the life imprisonment awarded by trial court to 10 years of imprisonment after considering various mitigating circumstances relating to...

Govt Can’t Withdraw Criminal Cases In Whimsical, Arbitrary Manner: Allahabad HC (FB) [Read Judgment]

A full bench of Allahabad High Court on Monday held that the state government cannot exercise power under Section 321 of Code of Criminal Procedure to withdraw criminal cases in a whimsical and arbitrary matter.Section 321 of CrPC 1973, deals with the power of public prosecutor/assistant public prosecutor to withdraw case of which he is in-charge after obtaining written permission from the...

Investigation Can’t Be Quashed Just Because Investigating Officer Lacks Territorial Jurisdiction: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has recently held that a criminal investigation cannot be quashed on the ground that the investigating officer has no territorial jurisdiction.A division bench of Justice KK Sonawane and Justice SS Shinde dismissed a petition filed by four accused to quash an FIR against them under Sections 498A, 323,504 and 506 R/W S.34 of IPC.It was alleged in the petition that the...

No Bar For Police To File Final Report After Initial Refer Report: Madras HC [Read Order]

The Madras High Court has recently held that there is no illegality in filing a second final report implicating an accused, after filing an initial refer report, referring the case as mistake of fact.Justice Kalaiyarsan was hearing a petition filed by an accused challenging the order of a magistrate ordering further investigation and subsequent final report implicating him.The police...

Comparative Advertising Per Se Doesn’t Amount To Disparagement: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

In the face of consumer law developments, reliefs for disparaging advertising have to be restricted to gross cases, the court held.Dismissing suits by ‘hypersensitive’ shampoo manufacturers, the Delhi High Court has held that comparative advertising, i.e., comparing own product with that of competitor’s and calling own superior / better than competitor‘s, would not amount to...

Justice Sapre Appointed As Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal Chairman

Supreme Court Judge Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre has been appointed as the chairman of Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT). The post fell vacant following the resignation of Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan, reports ‘The Hindu’.Justice Sapre was elevated as Judge of the Supreme Court and assumed charge on August 13, 2014.The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) was constituted by...

Explore Appropriate Programmes For Rehabilitation Of Women Prisoners: Delhi HC to Authorities [Read Judgment]

A division bench of Delhi High Court on Monday asked the authorities to explore appropriate programmes and intervention for mainstreaming and rehabilitating women prisoners.The bench comprising Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhotra observed that the status of women prisoners is extremely sad and unfortunate.“In several cases involving women prisoners, we are coming across the fact...

Bombay HC Finds Woman Guilty Of Culpable Homicide, Not Murder, For Setting Husband On Fire [Read Judgment]

The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has set aside a judgment by the trial court in Omerga convicting a woman of her husband’s murder.In a judgment dated April 3, 2013, the sessions court sentenced the accused to life imprisonment. This was challenged by the accused before the high court.A division bench of Justice SS Shinde and Justice KK Sonawane had reserved judgment in the case...

MP HC Asks Centre To Frame Rules For Appointment Of Doctors And Staff In BMHRC [Read Order]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has refused to give one year time to the Union government to frame the rules for appointment of doctors, specialists and other category of staff in the Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC).The 350-bed BMHRC was instituted at Bhopal to provide advanced tertiary level super specialty care facility to the Bhopal Gas Tragedy affected persons.Over...

Jolly LLB-2: Delhi HC Refuses To Stay Defamation Case By Bata [Read Petition]

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to stay proceedings before the trial court against the team of Jolly LLB-2 in a defamation case filed by footwear company Bata India Limited.Fox Star Studios India Pvt Ltd, production house of Jolly LLB-2 and one of the accused in the criminal complaint filed by Bata India Limited, has filed a petition under Section 482 of the CrPC in the high...

Nothing Wrong In Giving Judgment On Admissions In Cases Of Mutually-Agreed Talaq: Gujarat HC [Read Order]

The Gujarat High Court has observed that there is nothing wrong in giving judgment on admission in cases of mutually-agreed ‘talaq’.In the instant case, the family court had dismissed an application in a suit seeking declaration under Section 7 of the Family Court Act, 1984 ,where both the parties admitted that talaq has been given and they have both agreed to this proposition...

Prof. Parmanand Singh, Former Dean, DU Faculty Of Law, Passes Away

Former dean of faculty of Law, Delhi University, Professor Parmanand Singh passed away at 10.30 am on Monday. He was a founding member of the Board of Management of OP Jindal Global University and was also a visiting professor at Jindal Global Law School. Earlier, he taught at Banaras Hindu University and University of Gorakhpur.He had to his credit over 90 publications in law journals and...