Grievous Hurt Archives

‘Law has more focus on reformatory side’; Tripura HC commutes death sentence to life imprisonment of a man convicted for murdering five people

“The sword of justice given to a Judge has to be exercise with utmost responsibility and judiciously considering the reforms.”

Case Briefs High Courts

[Brick Throwing Case] Convict didn’t come prepared and armed with any weapon at all; Allahabad HC modifies ‘murder’ conviction to ‘grievous hurt’

Allahabad High Court noted that the deceased survived for seven days, thereafter he succumbed to this injury, and viewed that a single injury caused by throwing a piece of brick, which is not a handheld weapon, cannot be categorised as an injury likely to cause death.

Case Briefs High Courts

Squeezing enemy’s testicles in a crowded village procession not an act done with intent to commit murder; Karnataka High Court modifies sentence

While hearing the appeal against conviction for attempt to murder, the Court stated that the accused’s actions fall under ‘causing grievous hurt’ rather than ‘attempt to murder’.

Case Briefs High Courts

No need to attach copies of judgments with pleadings; Delhi High Court requests drafting counsels to adhere to basic principles of pleading

Delhi High Court: In an application filed by Aakash Choudhary (‘petitioner’) seeking anticipatory bail, as FIR was registered against him

Case Briefs High Courts

Allahabad High Court | Section 3 (2) (v) of SC and ST Act, 1989 only attracts by way of documentary evidence to prove that the injured belongs to SC or ST; Conviction and sentence, modified

Allahabad High Court: The Division Bench of Kaushal Jayendra Thaker and Ajai Tyagi, JJ. while deciding an appeal which was

Case Briefs High Courts

Law on Offences Against Property | While committing the act of robbery, if revolver is brandished, would that be an offence under S. 397 IPC? Del HC elucidates

Delhi High Court: Subramonium Prasad, J., addressed a very pertinent question of whether brandishing a revolver during the act of robbery be

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Compromise cannot be taken to be a solitary basis for reduction of sentence: Supreme Court

In a case where a compromise was reached between parties, 28 years after an incident left the victim crippled for life, the Court said that such a brutality cannot be ignored which is not against the individual but the crime is against the society which has to be dealt with sternly.

Case Briefs High Courts

HP HC | Gravity of offence not the sole decisive ground to deny bail – object of bail not punitive or, but to secure the presence of accused at trial

Himachal Pradesh High Court: Sandeep Sharma, J. allowed the bail petition of the appellants who were charged for intentional insult to provoke

Case Briefs High Courts

Bom HC | Conviction for murder turned into grievous hurt where death occurred after injured shifted to another hospital against medical advice

Bombay High Court: The Bench of A.S. Oka and A.S. Gadkari, JJ. modified the judgment of trial court and altered the appellant’s conviction under