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Del HC | Mere non-production of original documents not sufficient for conviction for an offence of forgery

Delhi High Court: The Bench of Mukta Gupta, J. dismissed a petition filed against the judgment of Metropolitan Magistrate acquitting the respondent for

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Bom HC | Conviction under S. 380 IPC upheld on basis of presumption under Illustration (a) of S. 114 of Evidence Act

Bombay High Court: The Bench of M.G. Giratkar, J. dismissed a revision petition against the judgment of Judicial Magistrate (First Class) whereby the

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All HC | Sentence reduced considering mitigating factor of age and background of convict

Allahabad High Court: The criminal revision was filed before a Bench of Aniruddha Singh, J., against the judgment and order passed by

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Manipur HC | Conviction on criminal charge doesn’t automatically entail dismissal, removal or reduction in rank of Government servant concerned

Manipur High Court: A Bench of Lanusungkum Jamir, J. set aside petitioner’s suspension order and held him to be entitled to full

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Accountability Court Verdict| Nawaz Sharif convicted for 7 years in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills reference

As reported by Dawn, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, who was awarded 10 years imprisonment in the Avenfield case, was

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Presumption under Section 118 of NI Act may legally be inferred where signature on cheque admitted by accused

Bombay High Court: A Single Judge bench comprising of M.G. Giratkar, J. dismissed a revision petition filed against the judgment of Judicial

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Adultery | Joseph Shine v. Union of India given retrospective effect; conviction under Section 497 IPC set aside

Bombay High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of M.G. Giratkar, J. allowed revision petition and set aside appellant’s conviction under Section 497

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SC upholds acquittal of accused for rioting and murder due to “multiple investigative laches and flaws”

Supreme Court: A Bench comprising of N.V. Ramana and M.M. Shantanagoudar, JJ. dismissed an appeal filed by the State of U.P. against

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Court cannot suggest for ‘alternative witness’ assuming original witness may not be readily available

Delhi High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of R.K. Gauba, J. directed partial retrial of a case while disposing of an appeal filed

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Refusal of witness to answer questions not fatal to conviction of accused in the presence of incriminating evidence on record

Supreme Court of Canada: A five-judge Bench comprising of Wagner CJ and Abella, Côté, Rowe and Martin , JJ. while hearing Crown’s

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Un-shattered testimony of official witnesses can be relied upon solely in order to prove guilt of the accused: Himachal Pradesh HC

Himachal Pradesh High Court: A Division Bench of Sanjay Karol, Chander Bhusan Barowalia, JJ. allowed an appeal filed against the order of

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Convict under Section 354-A IPC and Section 8 POCSO acquitted from offence under Section 450 IPC as former not punishable with imprisonment of life: Bombay HC

Bombay High Court: A Single judge Bench comprising of K.L. Wadane, J. partly allowed a criminal appeal filed against the judgment of

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Section 313 CrPC can well be considered as a constitutional right under Article 21; invocation of last seen theory sans facts and evidence does not shift onus on accused: SC

Supreme Court: A Bench comprising of Rohinton F. Nariman and Navin Sinha, JJ. allowed criminal appeal filed against the judgment of Gauhati High

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3-month imprisonment under NDPS Act reduced to 16 days to meet the ends of justice in light of convict’s old age: Bombay HC

Bombay High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of M.G. Giratkar, J. partly allowed an appeal filed against the judgment of the trial

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Pakistan SC directs expeditious disposal of juvenile trials; sets aside conviction of a child wrongly incarcerated for 11 years

Supreme Court of Pakistan: A 3-Judge Bench comprising of Gulzar Ahmed, Qazi Faez Isa, and Sajjad Ali Shah, JJ. while hearing a

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Conviction under Section 376 IPC upheld in light of act being ‘forcible’ and ‘non-consensual’: SC

Supreme Court: The 3-Judge Bench comprising of CJ Ranjan Gogoi and Sanjay Kishan Kaul and K.M. Joseph, JJ., dismissed an appeal filed

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Abstaining from funeral of father contrary to normal human conduct, to be considered incriminating factor: SC

Supreme Court: A Bench comprising of Ranjan Gogoi, Navin Sinha and K.M. Joseph, JJ. dismissed an appeal filed against the order of

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Evidentiary value, duty of Judge, sentencing in criminal trial discussed and reiterated; conviction of murder convict upheld: SC

Each criminal trial is but a quest for search of the truth. Supreme Court: The Bench comprising of Ranjan Gogoi, Navin Sinha

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Conviction under Section 302 IPC upheld in light of direct evidence of 12 year old daughter of convict

Delhi High Court: A Division Bench comprising of S. Muralidhar and V. Kameswar Rao, JJ. dismissed an appeal filed against the order

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Sentence undergone, age of convict, no criminal antecedents, non-denial of commission—Relevant facts to alter punishment: SC

Supreme Court: Abhay Manohar Sapre, J. delivered the judgment for himself and Uday U. Lalit, J. wherein the appeal filed by the