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Thane court acquits nine in 2017 attempted dacoity and firing case under MCOCA

A Thane special court has acquitted nine persons booked under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) in a ...

Uttar Pradesh: POCSO court awards death sentence to couple for sexual exploitation of 33 young boys

The trial court also directed the state to provide compensation of ₹10 lakh to every victim involved ...

‘Rarest of rare’: UP court hands death sentence to suspended junior engineer & his wife for sexually abusing children

The CBI, which probed the case, said the convict sold pornographic material involving the children on the darknet.

HC convicts man for ‘attempt’ to rape although doctor had given evidence of ‘partial penetration’

Chhattisgarh High Court reclassifies 2004 rape conviction to attempted rape due to inconsistent victim testimony and lack of ...

Can Dwarka’s Minor Driver Be Tried As Adult? The 2016 Delhi Mercedes Case Where It Was Done

Sahil Dhaneshra killed by 17-year-old driver in Delhi's Dwarka: Can juvenile be tried as adult? What happened when it was done in Siddharth Sharma case? What is the law abroad?

Delhi court discharges man in MCOCA case, frames penalty for evading proclamation

A Delhi court has discharged a man accused under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), observing that there was no cogent or credible evidence to establish his membership in an ...

ED attaches Rs 1.03 Cr assets of suspended Bank of India officer in Rs 16.8 Cr fraud case

Mumbai, today said it has attached properties worth Rs 1.03 crore belonging to Hitesh Kumar Singla, along with bank balances held in mule accounts that were allegedly used for siphoning the proceeds ...

Journalist Ravi Nair convicted in defamation case filed by Adani Enterprises, gets one-year jail term

A Judicial Magistrate First Class court in Mansa, Gandhinagar, has convicted journalist Ravi Nair in a criminal defamation case filed by Adani Enterprises Ltd (AEL) and sentenced him to one year of ...

Study of Gandhi’s thoughts, essay competition: Why Bombay HC reduced Pocso convict’s life term to 12 years

A bench of Justices Sarang V Kotwal and Sandesh D Patil, after perusing the evidence and submissions, affirmed the trial court judgement that he had committed an offence under section 376 (rape) of ...
The Hindu

Stranger can’t be booked under Section 498A of IPC that deals with offence of cruelty against woman only by her ‘relatives’: Karnataka HC

A stranger or neighbour cannot be drawn into the proceedings for offences under Section 498A (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), said ...
Hindustan Times

HC erred with narrow definition of public servant, CBI tells SC

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has challenged the Delhi high court’s decision to suspend former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member of the legislative assembly (MLA) Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s ...
Edmonton Journal

Alberta's Smith says notwithstanding clause increasingly likely amid unpopular court rulings

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said her government is increasingly willing to use the notwithstanding clause to counter judges who she believes have strayed too far from the public interest in their ...