BJP's Prashant Umrao Moves Delhi High Court For Transit Anticipatory Bail In FIR Over Tweet On Bihar Migrant Workers In Tamil Nadu

Lawyer and Uttar Pradesh spokesperson of BJP Prashant Kumar Umrao has moved the Delhi High Court seeking transit anticipatory bail in an FIR lodged against him by Tamil Nadu police for allegedly spreading false information in a tweet on the alleged attacks against the migrant workers from Bihar in the state. Umrao, a Delhi based lawyer and Standing Counsel for the State of Goa in Supreme...

[S.457 CrPC] Seized Articles Not Produced Before Court Can Be Released Even When Investigation Is Pending: Gauhati High Court

The Gauhati High Court recently held that the criminal court has the jurisdiction under Section 457 CrPC to give custody seized articles at the stage of investigation, when those seized property are not produced before the Court.The division bench of Justice Michael Zothankhuma and Justice Malasri Nandi was hearing a batch of petitions referred by a single judge bench to decide whether...

[Koodathayi Murder] Kerala High Court Refuses To Interfere With Sessions Court Order Dismissing Discharge Petition Of Jolly Joseph

The Kerala High Court on Monday refused to interfere with the trial court proceedings against Jolly Joseph in connection with the murder of her first husband, Roy Thomas. Jolly had filed a revision petition challenging the order of the sessions court which had dismissed her discharge petition.Jolly Joseph is the prime accused in the infamous Koodathayi murders and has been accused of...

Cattle Smuggling: Calcutta High Court Paves Way For ED To Take Anubrata Mondal To Delhi, Dismisses Challenge To Production Warrant

A special bench of Calcutta High Court on Saturday dismissed with exemplary cost, a petition filed by Anubrata Mondal, TMC’s leader and accused in West Bengal Cattle smuggling case, challenging the production warrant issued by a Special CBI Court, Delhi in PMLA case.Mondal was arrested under Section 3 (Offence of money-laundering) and Section 4 (Punishment for money-laundering) of...

Undertake Special Recruitment Drive To Fill Up Vacancies For PwDs: High Court Directs Delhi Govt

The Delhi High Court has directed Chief Secretary of the Delhi Government to undertake a special recruitment drive for filling up backlog of vacancies for persons with disabilities(PwDs) in various departments or establishments in a time bound manner.A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad also set out a time schedule to be followed by the...

Vande Bharat Stone Pelting| 'Whether CM Mamata Banerjee's Alleged Statement Falls U/S 153A IPC Ambit?': Calcutta HC Seeks AG's Reply

The Calcutta High Court last week sought an explanation from the Advocate General of the state as to whether an alleged statement of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, made in the backdrop of the Vande Bharat Train Stone Pelting incident of January 2023, falls under the ambit of Section 153A IPC for promoting enmity between the residents of Bengal and Bihar. It may be noted that Section 153A...

[Prevention Of Corruption Act] Mere Typing Error In Designation Of Person Accused While Issuing Sanction Does Not Invalidate It: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court recently held that merely because there is a typographical error in showing the designation of the person accused in the sanction order to prosecute such person under Section 19(1)(b) of the Prevention of Corruption Act (P.C. Act), it cannot be said that the sanction order is bad. Justice Kauser Edappagath passed the above order and observed, "For the simple reason...

Witness Examination Through Virtual Mode Does Not Affect The Rights Of Accused: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court recently held that the examination of a witness during trial may be conducted through video linkage mode as per the provisions of the Electronic Video Linkage Rules for Courts (Kerala), 2021 and that the same would not affect the rights of the accused.A single bench of Justice A Badharudeen noted that under Rule 8(25) Electronic Video Linkage Rules for Courts (Kerala),...

After 7-Days CBI Custody, Delhi Court Sends Aam Aadmi Party Leader Manish Sisodia To Judicial Custody Till March 20

A Delhi Court on Monday remanded Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia to judicial custody in the case filed by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) alleging corruption in implementation of the excise policy for the year 2021-22.Special Judge MK Nagpal passed the order after the CBI counsel said they are not seeking extension of his custody...

Cause Of Action Cannot Be Generated By Repeated Representations, Right To Claim Must Be Established: Jammu & Kashmir High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has recently ruled that ‘cause of action’ cannot be generated by making repeated representations and serving legal notices to the concerned authorities as every fact is required to be proved in order to support the right being claimed before the court. The observations to this effect were made by a bench comprising Justices Sanjeev...

Delhi Riots: High Court Denies Bail To Accused As Prosecution Accuses Him Of Threatening Witnesses

The Delhi High Court has denied bail to an accused in a case related to the 2020 North-East Delhi riots. The FIR alleges that former Aam Aadmi Party councillor Tahir Hussain's associates stole valuable property from a godown situated at Khajuri Khas.Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma denied bail to Shoaib Alam considering that two eye witnesses gave account of his specific role and the fact...

'Writ Of Atique Runs In Police Station Area, Not Of Govt': Allahabad HC Cancels Bail Of MLA Raju Pal Murder Case Accused

While cancelling bail granted to an accused (Farhan) in the 2005 murder of then BSP legislator Raju Pal in Prayagraj, the Allahabad High Court observed that in the area of the Police Station Dhomanganj/Dhoomanganj, Prayagraj the writ of the State Government does not run, rather, the writ of dreaded criminal, Ateeq Ahmad runs.The court observed thus as it noted that both Raju Pal and the...