Karnataka High Court Orders Trial Court To Pass Fresh Verdict in Murder Case, Says Court Can't Ignore Cross-Examination While Considering Evidence

The Karnataka High Court has said trial courts dealing with criminal matters have to appreciate evidence as a whole and cannot ignore the cross-examination. A division bench of Justice B Veerappa and Justice Rajesh Rai K allowed the appeals filed by a murder convict Kattemane Ganesha and the victim in the same case. While Ganesha had challenged the order convicting him in the murder...

Offer Namaz And Plant Two Trees: Malegaon Court Directs Muslim Man In Road Accident Brawl Case

Earlier this week, a Magistrate in Malegaon, Maharashtra ordered a Muslim man to offer five times namaaz for 21 days and plant two trees in a road-accident brawl case for voluntarily causing hurt (Section 323 IPC). Magistrate Tejwant Singh Sandhu passed the order on February 27 and observed that Section 3 of the Probation of Offenders Act could be applied in the present case. The Act...

Petitioners Dub Renaming Of Osmanabad & Aurangabad As "Saffronization Of Country”; Bombay High Court Declines Status Quo

The Bombay High Court on Monday refused to order a status-quo on the Maharashtra government’s February 24 notification renaming Aurangabad and Osmanabad cities to Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar and Dharashiv, respectively.The bench of Acting Chief Justice SV Gangapurwala and Sandeep Marne instead decided to hear on March 27, 2023 all the PILs against Union Home Ministry's letter...

791 Police Officials From Assam, 120 From Mizoram And 75 From Arunachal Identified For Separate Investigation Wings: States Tell Gauhati High Court

Responding to the suo moto PIL registered by the Gauhati High Court for implementing Police reforms, the Assam Government on Tuesday submitted that a total of 791 Police officials have been identified and earmarked for the purpose of being placed exclusively on the duty of investigation.Similarly, the governments in Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh have identified 120 and 75 Police...

Umesh Pal Murder| Prime Accused Not A Member Of Association, Media Spreading Misleading News: Allahabad HC Bar Association

The Allahabad High Court Bar Association has issued a clarification that the prime accused in the Umesh Pal Murder Case, Sadakat Khan, who has been arrested by UP Police on conspiracy charges, is not a member of the association, as is being claimed by the media.Expressing its displeasure over the misleading news being spread in various newspapers and social media that Khan, who is involved in...

Pension Liability For Services Rendered In North-East Frontier Agency Prior To It Becoming State Of Arunachal Pradesh Is On Centre: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday held that when a person who had died in harness while being deployed in North Eastern Frontier Agency, now Arunachal Pradesh, which was directly under the administration of the Government of India at the time, the family pension liability would only be upon the Central Government and not on the Government of the State of Arunachal Pradesh. "In the case of...

Accused On Bail In Case With Bailable Offences Can Seek Anticipatory Bail On Addition Of Non-Bailable Offences: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court, while considering the process to be followed when an accused is granted bail for a crime that initially involved only bailable offences, held that the accused can seek anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure after the addition of non-bailable offences. A single bench of Justice A. Badharudeen was hearing an anticipatory bail application...

Religious Conversion| 'Their Intent Behind Charitable Works Is Dubious': Allahabad HC Denies Anticipatory Bail To 'SHUATS' VC, Director

The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday denied anticipatory bail to the Vice Chancellor of Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (formerly Allahabad Agricultural Institute) (Dr.) Rajendra Bihari Lal and Institute's Director Vinod Bihari Lal in connection with a mass religious conversion case.Noting that they are an influential person and their intent behind...

Payment Towards Employee’s Contribution To Provident Fund After Due Date Is Not Allowable As Deduction: ITAT

The Mumbai Bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has held that payment towards an employee’s contribution to the provident fund after the due date is not allowable as a deduction.The two-member bench of Sandeep Singh Karhail (Judicial Member) and Om Prakash Kant (Accountant Member) has relied on the Supreme Court's decision in the case of Checkmate Services (P.) Ltd. and ruled...

Delhi High Court Directs Police To Ensure Compliance Of Supreme Court's Order On CCTV Cameras In Police Stations

The Delhi Police has informed the Delhi High Court that it is working expeditiously to conclude the tender process for installing CCTV cameras in police stations in the national capital as per directions of the Supreme Court in Paramveer Singh Saini v. Baljit Singh. The Apex Court in Paramveer Singh Saini had directed that CCTV cameras must be installed with a storage period of 18...

Rajasthan High Court Takes Suo Moto Cognizance Of Lawyers' Strike Over Peer's Murder, Condemns Bar For Obstructing AG's Entry

The Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday took suo moto cognizance of strike called by various Bar Associations on account of a lawyer's murder in Jodhpur.The division bench of the Acting Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice Vijay Bishnoi said call of strike and abstention from work by anyone including the office bearers of any of the Bar Association is not in accordance with the...

Delhi High Court Allows Extradition of German National For Trial In Child Sexual Abuse Case

The Delhi High Court has upheld an order passed by a Delhi Court recommending the extradition of a German national, who is accused of sexually abusing children.Justice Anish Dayal held that the order passed by the Court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM), recommending extradition of the accused, Bernd Alexander Bruno Wehnelt, to Germany for trial for the offences under the...