[LIVE NOW]Practitioner Series: [Investigation] From First Information Report To Filing Of Charge-Sheet [Sections 154 TO 173 CrPC] By Justice V. Ramkumar [Part II] [Read Notes]

LiveLaw is organizing a webinar under its "LiveLaw Practitioner Series" on August 23, 2020, at 10:30 am.Justice V Ramkumar will speak on [Investigation] From First Information Report To Filing Of Charge-Sheet [Sections 154 TO 173 CrPC].The details of the webinar are as follows: Zoom ID: https://zoom.us/j/93459404259?pwd=QXVCTzZlVTIwSTA2OVFXMlJsa0owdz09Meeting ID: 934 5940...

'Need To Speak Truth To Power; Be Prepared To Suffer Jail For That' : Prashant Bhushan Hints No Apology In Contempt Case

Two days before the deadline given by the Supreme Court to tender "unconditional apology" in the contempt case, Advocate Prashant Bhushan stressed on the need to speak truth to power and said that one should be prepared even to go to jail for that.He was speaking at a Facebook Live session organized by the the Students Federation of India yesterday on the topic "Decoding Democracy"."We are at...

Media Propaganda That Tablighi Jamaat Attendees Spread COVID-19 In India Was Unwarranted: Bombay HC

The Court observed that there was a "smell of malice" in the action taken against Tablighi Jamaat followers.

Bombay HC Says Tablighi Jamaat Foreigners Were Made 'Scapegoats'; Quashes FIRs Against Them; Criticizes Media Propaganda [Read Judgment]

"A political Government tries to find the scapegoat when there is pandemic or calamity and the circumstances show that there is probability that these foreigners were chosen to make them scapegoats. The aforesaid circumstances and the latest figures of infection in India show that such action against present petitioners should not have been taken. It is now high time for the concerned to repent about this action taken against the foreigners and to take some positive steps to repair the damage done by such action."

'The Best Way To Remember Justice Protik Prakash Banerjee Is To Read His Judgements' : Here Is A Collection Of His Judgements

The best way to remember Hon'ble Justice Late Protik Prakash Banerjee of the Calcutta High Court who bade an untimely farewell to his family, friends and colleagues at the bar and the bench in the early hours of 3rd July 2020, is through his writings. Some columns on a few platforms have recently remembered him by revealing bits of his irrepressible personality. However, to do justice to...

NDPS Act - Application Seeking Time Extension For Investigation Not Maintainable If Progress Of Probe Not Disclosed: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has held that an application seeking extension of time for investigation under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act 1985 is not maintainable if it is is not in conformity with the requirements of proviso to sub section (4) of Section 36A of the NDPS Act.One of the requirements of the report for extension, under proviso to sub section (4) of Section 36A of...

"My Dear Fellow, The Case Is Tomorrow! Your Counsel Has Not Read The Brief" - The Story Of Bhulabhai Desai, The Lawyer Who Argued India Her Freedom

"And it will be a travesty of justice if we were to be told as a result of any decision arrived at here or otherwise, that the Indian may go as a soldier and fight for the freedom of England against Germany, for England against Italy, for England against Japan, and yet a stage may not be reached when a free Indian State may not wish to free itself from any country, including England itself." It was a show case trial and the packed room hung on to every word this Gujarati lawyer...

Attorney General Requests SC To Not Punish Prashant Bhushan In Contempt Case

The bench said that it can accept AG's suggestion only if Bhushan reconsiders his statement.

[Breaking] 'My Statements Are Well Considered And Well Thought Of': Prashant Bhushan Declines SC's Offer For Time To Reconsider Statement

Advocate Prashant Bhushan on Thursday declined the Supreme Court's offer for time to reconsider the statement made by him in the Court justifying his tweets and expressing dismay at the contempt verdict.Justice Gavai asks Bhushan : Would you like to reconsider your statement?Bhushan : I don't want to reconsider the statement. As regards giving time, I don't think it will serve any...

[Contempt] "I Do Not Ask For Mercy, I Do Not Appeal to Magnanimity, I am Here To Cheerfully Submit to Any Penalty": Prashant Bhushan Tells SC Quoting Gandhiji

"My tweets were nothing but a small attempt to discharge what I considered to be my highest duty at this juncture in the history of our republic. I did not tweet in a fit of absence mindedness. It would be insincere and contemptuous on my part to offer an apology for the tweets that expressed what was and continues to be my bonafide belief. Therefore, I can only humbly paraphrase what the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi had said in his trial: I do not ask for mercy. I do not appeal to magnanimity. I am here, therefore, to cheerfully submit to any penalty that can lawfully be inflicted upon me for what the Court has determined to be an offence, and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen."

[Suo Moto Contempt] Right Of One Appeal: A Requirement Of Due Process

According to media reports of 19 August 2020, Justice Kurian Joseph, former Judge of the Supreme Court, has formulated the following question in the context of contempt of Court proceedings: "…whether a person convicted by the Supreme Court of India in a suo-motu case should get an opportunity for an intra-court appeal since in all other situations of conviction in criminal matters, the convicted person is entitled to have a second opportunity by way of an appeal. Under Section 19 of the...

AP HC Requests Justice R V Raveendran To Inquire Into Phone Conversation Designing Plot Against HC CJ & Senior SC Judges [Read Order]

The Andhra Pradesh High Court last week ordered inquiry by a retired judge of the Supreme Court into the genuineness of an alleged telephonic conversation between a former High Court judge and a principal junior civil judge, who is under suspension, conspiring to design a plot against the Chief Justice of the High Court and senior judges of the SC. A bench of Justices M. Satyanarayana Murthy...