Refusal Of Marriage Proposal Cannot Be 'Grave And Sudden Provocation' For Murder : Karnataka High Court

“The defence of 'grave and sudden' provocation shall not avail an accused if the result of permitting such a defence is to dehumanise the person of victim, stultify her individual autonomy, agency and dignity.”

'Based On A False Complaint, A Person Is In Jail For 77 Days' : Kerala High Court Grants Bail To Rape-Accused Health Worker After Victim Said Intercourse Was Consensual

The Court ordered enquiry against the victim who filed affidavit saying that the rape allegations was made under pressure from relatives.

No Limitation Period For Divorced Wife To Claim Property Entrusted With Husband : Kerala High Court FB

A full bench of the Kerala High Court has held that even after the dissolution of the marriage, the husband will be deemed to hold in trust the properties entrusted with him by the wife before marriage in the form of dowry.This means that Section 10 of the Limitation Act 1963, which exempts the application of limitation period to suit against trusts and trustees, will continue to apply to...

'CBI Appeal Duly Filed': Delhi High Court Rejects Objection Of Acquitted Accused In 2G Scam Case

A Single Judge Bench of Justice Brijesh Sethi of Delhi High Court today rejected the acquitted accused persons' plea in the 2G scam case alleging that the CBI's appeal in the matter was not duly filed as the requisite sanction was not obtained by the investigating body. The Court also held that the 2018 amendment to the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 would not come to the rescue...

'Are You Saying Housewives Are Uneducated?' Delhi High Court Asks Pradeep Poonia To Take Down Tweets Against WhiteHat Jr; Restrain Him From Commenting

Hearing coding-teaching platform WhiteHat Jr's $2.3 million suit defamation suit against one Pradeep Poonia, the Delhi High Court today came down sharply on the latter for his tweets against WhiteHat Jr's teachers stating that they were 'housewives'. A single judge bench of Justice Mukta Gupta today granted ad-interim injunction to WhiteHat Jr and founder Karan Bajaj against...

Discouraging Article 32 Habeas Corpus Petitions – The Legal Basis

Observations by a bench of the Supreme Court headed by the Chief Justice of India while hearing a habeas corpus writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution that the court is trying to discourage Article 32 Petitions - has understandably received coverage critical of the judicial attitude of the court. Particularly, as it came in the backdrop of an order granting interim bail to Arnab Goswami in a hastily convened vacation hearing punctuated by several oral observations by the...

Delhi High Court Resolves To Extend Existing Arrangement of Hearing Of Matters Till 16 Jan 2021

Full Court of the Delhi High Court has resolved, by circulation to extend the existing arrangement of hearing of matters till 16th January, 2021, in wake of the rising COVID-19 cases in the National Capital Territory of Delhi. The decision was taken by the Full Court which, by circulation, was to consider the further extension of the arrangement of hearing of matters by the High Court of...

118A OF Kerala Police Act: An Affront On Parrhesia

In exercise of the exceptional powers conferred by clause (1) of Article 213 of the Constitution of India, the Governor of Kerala promulgated an exceptional Ordinance amending the Kerala Police Act, 2011 (8 of 2011) and inserting a new provision 118A. Section 118A reads thus: whoever makes, expresses, publishes or disseminates through any kind of mode of communication, any matter or subject for threatening, abusing, humiliating or defaming a person or class of persons, knowing it to be...

Delhi Riots: Delhi Court Grants Bail To Student Activist Gulfisha Fatima But To Remain in Jail

The Karkardooma Court (Delhi) on Saturday (21st November) granted bail to Student Activist Gulfisha Fatima, in a case related to the communal violence in NE Delhi in February 2020. But she will remain in Judicial custody in connection with a UAPA Case.The Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat was hearing the bail plea of Student Activist Gulfisha Fatima who was praying for the grant on Bail...

MJ Akbar v. Priya Ramani: Chances Of Compromise Very Bleak As Ramani Stands By Her Statements, Parties Inform Court

Both the parties in the MJ Akbar's criminal defamation case against senior journalist Priya Ramani informed the court that the chances of reaching a compromise is bleak as Ramani stands by her statements and her story against Akbar. The said submission was made when the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate asked both the parties to think about the possibility of reaching...

'A Lawyer With High Principles' : A Junior Remembers His Senior KG Kannabiran

'Kannabiran used to say that the legal profession is the only profession where one would get a chance to deal with different subjects and provides an opportunity to fight for human rights, and various freedoms given under the Constitution'.

Andhra Pradesh High Court To Examine If There Is "Constitutional Breakdown" In State Of AP

In a peculiar development in the Andhra Pradesh High Court, a division bench has converted the hearing on a batch of habeas corpus petitions and petitions alleging police excesses as a hearing on the issue whether there is a "constitutional breakdown" in the State of Andhra Pradesh.A division bench comprising Justices Rakesh Kumar and Uma Devi has directed the government counsel to...