[ad_1] The Punjab and Haryana high court has asked the Centre and the CBI to submit their reply on a plea filed by controversial chief of Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh demanding handing over Punjab’s 2015 sacrilege cases to the CBI.Justice Vinod S Bhardwaj of the HC...
SC transfers trial of murder case of YS Jagan Reddy’s uncle to Hyderabad, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms
[ad_1] The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the trial in the case relating to murder of US Vivekanand Reddy, uncle of Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jagan Reddy, to Telangana on the allegations of the deceased person's widow and daughter that state and influential people are attempting to scuttle trial.A...
18 years on, HC frees lifer, says he committed murder as juvenile, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms
[ad_1] Eighteen years after a man was convicted of murder and awarded life imprisonment, the Delhi high court has now found he was a juvenile at the time of committing the offence and set aside his life imprisonment. However, it held him guilty of the crime.The court noted the accused...
Hc Smells Foulplay In Gokulraj Case, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms
[ad_1] Furious with attempts to ‘derail and subvert the course of justice’ in the sensational Gokulraj caste murder case, Madras high court has taken an extraordinary action of recalling a ‘somersaulting’ star witness and record her deposition directly in the high court itself. It also ordered immediately police protection to...
Hc Seeks Counter Affidavit, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms
[ad_1] MADURAI: Madras high court on Friday directed the state government to file a counter affidavit on a batch of petitions challenging the premature release of 13 convicts in the Melavalavu massacre case in Madurai district. Six dalits were massacred at Melavalavu on June 30, 1997 by members of another...
Single Eyewitness Must Be Of Sterling Quality, Says Hc, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms
[ad_1] Bhopal/Jabalpur: A division bench of MP high court, while acquitting a person convicted for murder by a sessions court in Chhindwara district, said that statement of a single eyewitness may form the basis of conviction of an accused for a crime, but such single eyewitness should be of "sterling...
Probe Team Moves Hc For Forensic Examination Of ‘will’, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms
[ad_1] Thiruvananthapuram: The crime branch team probing the murder of Jayamadhavan Nair, the last heir of the Koodathil family, at Karamana has approached the high court seeking permission for a forensic examination of the ‘will’, which was claimed to have been prepared by Nair, transferring the family wealth worth crores...
Hc To Dgp, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms
[ad_1] Times News NetworkBengaluru: After coming across several inadequacies in investigation and in maintaining records in a criminal case, the high court’s Dharwad bench asked the DGP to set up a task force to ensure digitisation of the entire process.“A task force will have to be established by the DGP,...