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“Every false complaint of sexual offences not just causes immense damage to the person accused of the offence, but also creates cynicism and distrust across the society, which leads to even the genuine victims of sexual offences suffer, as society starts suspecting her truthful complaint also to be false.”
“Quite often, it is seen that road rage leads to loss of human lives as well. The damage caused gets aggrandized when one of the aggressors is a lawyer while the other is a President of a political organization.”
In the present case seeking regular bail by the accused, the charge-sheet comprising about 10,000 pages was filed over 1 year ago citing 49 prosecution witnesses, but charges are yet to be framed. Therefore, the Court stated that it is obvious that trial will take a long time to conclude.
The expression “soon before her death” in Section 304-B of Penal Code, 1860 must be read as an expression of continuity of time and not an expression of mere length of time. The legislature in its wisdom had used the phrase as “soon before” and not “immediately before”.
The accused, despite being fully aware of the age difference, actively pursued the relationship, gave assurances of marriage, and induced the victim to make financial and emotional commitments.
An FIR was lodged against Ashish Chanchalani in Gauhati due to controversial remarks made by his co-panellist Ranveer Allahabadia on India’s Got Latent show
The book is a legitimate personal account or homage to Sidhu Moosewala, written by someone who knew him personally, and it is not a case of intellectual property theft.
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“Though the Constitutional Courts are the sentinels of justice, however, this power of judicial review is required to be exercised with due care and caution and interference at the stage of investigation is made in rare and exceptional cases.”
“It is in the wisdom of the Investigating officer to file charge-sheet against those accused against whom there is strong evidence. Unnecessary harassment and false implication should be avoided.”
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“Everybody should be vigilant while making comments about others, whether they are men or women.”
The One-Man Committee constituted to study the new criminal laws and make recommendations is chaired by Retired Justice M. Sathyanarayanan.
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“The process of law would take its own course through the trial”
In a sexual harassment case of a 15-year-old girl, the charges under POCSO Act were added at the fag end of the trial, despite that the victim deposed during the examination that she was aged 15 years at the time of the incident.
“The evidence of a child witness can easily be influenced by the elders in the family. Acceptance of the child witness evidence would be dangerous in the present circumstances of the case as the evidence appears to be a result of tutoring. Not examining the father and grandfather of the victim, who were sleeping by the side of the victim girl is fatal to the prosecution case”.
“What has been stated in the book “Manusmriti” had been only made as his speech and in the facts and circumstances of this case, this Court does not find that any of the offences as alleged by the complainant is made out.”