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Merely Because FIR Contains The Inquest Number It Cannot Be Said That FIR Was Registered After Inquest: SC20 Feb 2019 7:23 AM GMT

The Supreme Court has observed that merely because Inquest number is mentioned in First Information Report, it does not affect the prosecution case nor does it affect the credibility of the eye...

Death Penalty Should Remain On The Statute Book, Says Gujarat HC [Read Judgment]19 Feb 2019 1:05 PM GMT

'Although there is a good deal of opposition to death penalty, yet it should remain on the statute book', said a division bench of Gujarat High Court while commuting death sentence awarded to two...

Inability To Establish Motive In A Case Of Circumstantial Evidence Not Always Fatal : SC [Read Judgment]12 Feb 2019 1:04 PM GMT

'Voluntary Provocation' Cannot Attract Exception To Offence Of Murder: SC [Read Judgment]11 Feb 2019 11:24 AM GMT

SC Cancels Bail Granted By Rajasthan HC To Alleged Illegal Sand Mafia [Read Order]15 Dec 2018 9:20 AM GMT

Brutal, But Doesn’t Warrant Death Sentence: SC Commutes Death Penalty Of A Man Who Was Convicted For Murdering 3 Kids [Read Judgment]29 Nov 2018 5:07 PM GMT

‘The offence has undoubtedly been committed which can be said to be brutal but does not warrant death sentence.’ The Supreme Court has commuted death sentence imposed on a man convicted in a triple...

Section 313 CrPC: Accused’s Silence About Matters He Is Expected To Explain Leads To An Adverse Inference Against Him: SC [Read Order]26 Nov 2018 7:35 AM GMT

“The duty is on the State to show that there is no possibility of reform or rehabilitation of the accused. When the offence is not gruesome, not cold-blooded murder, nor is committed in a diabolical...

Kerala HC Confirms Death Penalty For Convict In Double Rape-Murder Case [Read Judgment]6 Nov 2018 1:34 PM GMT

The High Court of Kerala has upheld death penalty awarded by trial court for a person convicted of rape and murder of a mother-daughter duo. The crime happened on December 2, 2007, in Idukki...

SC Stresses On Need To Develop And Recognize ‘Democratic Policing’ Concept; Enhances Punishment To Cops Involved In Custodial Torture Case [Read Judgment]4 Sep 2018 12:47 PM GMT

“It may not be out of context to remind that the motto of Maharashtra State Police is 'Sadrakshnāya Khalanīghrahanāya' (Sanskrit: 'To protect good and to Punish evil'), which needs to be respected....

Bombay HC Alters Conviction Of Accused Who Killed Man For “Unnatural Sex” From Murder To Culpable Homicide [Read Judgment]29 Aug 2018 6:29 AM GMT

The Bombay High Court recently gave the benefit of doubt to an accused convicted of murder, accepting his defence that the murder took place in a heat of passion as he was being forced to perform...

SC Turns Down Suhaib Ilyasi’s Interim Bail Plea; Asks Him To Approach HC [Read Order]31 May 2018 2:23 PM GMT

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to grant interim bail to television producer Suhaib Ilyasi who is facing life imprisonment for the murder of his wife.The vacation bench of Justice L Nageswara...

“It Is Simply Unheard Of", SC Expresses Surprise About Sessions Judge Sentencing A Murder Convict To Just 10-Year Imprisonment [Read Judgment]26 March 2018 11:43 AM GMT

The Supreme Court today expressed surprise about an order of a Sessions judge who had sentenced a murder convict ‘for ten years’.“It is simply unheard of,” said the bench of Justice RK Agrawal and...