Source:- thehindu.com The Madras High Court Bench here would decide now whether the murder of a young Dalit lactating mother by a Caste Hindu couple on May 13 last, just because their daughter had eloped with her brother, would fall under the category of ‘rarest of rare’ cases warranting death sentence. A Division Bench of
Source:- indiatoday.intoday.in The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has directed the makers of Jolly LLB 2 to reply to the petition filed by Nanded resident and practicing sessions court lawyer Ajaykumar Waghmare. According to him, the film, which is scheduled to release on February 10 is “nothing but an attempt to portray the
Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Ending a nine-month drought in appointment of judges to the highest court, the collegium headed by Chief Justice of India J S Khehar recommended the names of four high court chief justices and an HC judge to the Centre for appointment to the Supreme Court. Many names in the list of
Source:- hindustantimes.com Justice J Chelameswar, a member of the Supreme Court collegium that clears appointments to the higher judiciary, has questioned its decision not to elevate “the highly competent” Justice KM Joseph to the top court. Justice Joseph, the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court, was on the collegium’s shortlist last year. But his
Source:- indiatimes.com KOCHI: An educated woman engaging in sex multiple times with a person who has promised to marry her can only be treated as consensual and not rape, says the Kerala high court. Even an uneducated woman cannot be cheated more than once or twice on the promise of marriage, the court said while
Source:- livelaw.in Calcutta High Court on Friday commuted the death sentence awarded by Additional Sessions Judge Arambagh to Lakhikanta Adhikary who killed his 26 year old wife and 7 year old son. The High Court awarded life imprisonment with minimum 30 years without remission. The case of the prosecution is that accused Lakhikanta Adhikary was
Source:- india.com Mumbai, Feb 22 (PTI) The Bombay High Court today said it would consider if it should direct the Maharashtra government to hike the compensation to victims of rape and other offences against women under a scheme from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 10 lakh. Under the Manodhairya Yojana launched in October 2013, the
Source:- livelaw.in Madhya Pradesh High Court has recently held that in a prosecution under S.498A IPC (Matrimonial Cruelty) the case of the near and distant relatives of the husband stands on a different footing than that of the husband and parents-in-law. Justice GS Ahluwalia also held that in order to prosecute the other relatives, there
Source:- indiatimes.com MUMBAI: The Bombay high court refused to release a Bhiwandi youth, who allegedly stalked a minor, raped her under threats and then circulated her nude photos on social media. Justice Sadhana Jadhav dismissed the bail application of Sujit Patil, who was arrested in August 2016. He was booked for stalking, rape and under
Source:- indiatimes.com CHANDIGARH: In a rare order directly affecting the lives of paramilitary personnel, the Punjab and Haryana high court has asked Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to consider the transfer case of a constable so that he can cohabit with his wife. “Keeping in view the legitimate hope that the petitioner and his wife
