The Supreme Court has observed that cooperating with the investigation did not mean the accused had to necessarily admit his guilt in a case. The Bench of Justice Bhushan R Gavai and Justice KV Viswanathan recently held that the prosecution must discharge its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. It could not expect the…
A Delhi court has ordered the attachment of Bikaner House, owned by the Nagar Palika Nokha of Rajasthan, after the state municipal council failure to pay dues of Rs 50.31 lakh it owed to a private firm. The Patiala House Court noted that despite numerous opportunities, the judgment debtor (Nagar Palika Nokha) had failed to…
The Meghalaya High Court has issued a directive in response to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by the Registrar General, High Court of Meghalaya, against the State of Meghalaya. The PIL was heard by the Division Bench of Chief Justice IP Mukerji and Justice W Diengdoh on Tuesday. The PIL centered on concerns regarding…
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court while allowing a petition said that when all the accused persons have been found guilty of committing the same offences, granting benefit of Section 4(1) of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 to one of them and denying the same benefit to the revisionists “keeping in view…
The Supreme Court has directed the Jail Superintendents across the country to identify all undertrial prisoners, including women undertrials, who have undergone incarceration for either one-third or half of the maximum punishment prescribed for offences they are accused of, and send their cases to concerned courts for the grant of bail. The order was passed…
The Allahabad High Court has directed the Superintendent of Police (SP), Jalaun to carry out a detailed investigation into allegations of conspiracy to frame an accused in a rape case and also take necessary action against the person involved in this forgery. A Single Bench of Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal passed this order while…
The Kerala High Court has directed the State Government to give a nurse the opportunity to contest recovery of compensation. The bench comprising Chief Justice Nitin Jamdar and Justice S. Manu said this while disposing of a petition by staff nurse Rakhi V V. The petition challenged the Kerala State Human Rights Commission’s order directing…
The Rajasthan High Court’s Jaipur Bench has dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) by Dr. Narendra Kumar Gupta, a 70-year-old resident of Chittorgarh, Rajasthan. The petition was heard by Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice Ashutosh Kumar. The court dismissed the petition due to the petitioner’s failure to conduct proper research and gather information…
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court has quashed recovery orders issued by the Deputy Commissioner, State Goods and Services Tax, Lucknow against M/S AV Pharma. The Division Bench of Justice Rajan Roy and Justice Manish Kumar passed this order while hearing a petition filed by M/S AV Pharma through its proprietor Smt Madhu…
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday stayed proceedings against Congress leader and former Union Minister P Chidambaram in a money laundering case related to the Aircel-Maxis deal of 2006. While issuing notice to the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the single-judge Bench of Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri stayed the proceedings against Chidambaram till the next date of…