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Del HC | JJ Board not bound by expert opinion in preliminary assessment, may disagree with the report and not treat CCL as adult

Delhi High Court: Chander Shekhar, J. refused to interfere with the order of the Juvenile Justice Board whereby it had directed that the two

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Age of the case can’t displace the necessity of taking material evidence on record

Supreme Court: A bench of Abhay Manohar Sapre and Dinesh Maheshwari, JJ has held that “the age of a case, by itself,

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SL CoA | Discrepancies that do not go to the root of the matter and assail the basic version of the witness cannot be given too much importance in deciding cases

Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka: The Bench of M.M.A. Gaffoor and K.K. Wickremasinghe, JJ. dismissed the appeal of the accused-appellant who

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NHRC issues notice over — Abduction, Rape and Murder of a 9-Year old girl

National Human Rights Commission issues notice on 08-04-2019 to Maharashtra DGP and Mumbai Police Commissioner over the reported abduction, rape, and murder

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P&H HC | Suspicion, however strong, cannot take place of the positive proof and cannot be made basis of conviction

Punjab And Haryana High Court: The Bench of Rajiv Sharma and Kuldip Singh, JJ., dismissed the application filed under Section 378(4) CrPC

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Gau HC | Convict’s intoxicated condition and subsequent conduct renders conviction for murder modified for culpable homicide

Gauhati High Court: A Bench of Achintya Malla Bujor Barua and Mir Alfaz Ali, JJ., modified a conviction for murder to that of

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Saravana Bhavan owner P Rajagopal guilty of murdering his employee in 2001 [Full Report]

Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of NV Ramana, MM Shantanagoudar and Indira Banerjee, JJ has upheld the conviction and sentence of life

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Del HC | Suicide note being in handwriting of deceased does not rule out possibility of murder, ‘ante-mortem hanging’ not an abstract aspect

Delhi High Court: Sunil Gaur, J., dismissed a set of petitions filed by the husband and in-laws of the deceased impugning the order whereby they

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Pat HC | 28-year old murder case against Bihar CM Nitish Kumar quashed for being mala fide, false and fabricated

Patna High Court: The Bench of Ahsanuddin Amanullah, J. quashed the criminal proceeding initiated against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar by a

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Gau | Conviction for culpable homicide not amounting to murder reversed due to lack of legal evidence

Gauhati High Court: Rumi Kumari Phukan, J., allowed a criminal appeal and acquitted the appellants who were convicted under Section 304 Part-II IPC

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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

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Here’s why SC commuted the death sentence of man who killed his wife and 5 children to LI

Supreme Court: “The mercy petition is the last hope of a person on death row. Every dawn will give rise to a

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Bom HC | Convict found to be “legally insane” detained as per — S. 335 CrPC for appropriate medical treatment

Bombay High Court: The Division Bench of S.S. Shinde and R.G. Avachat, JJ., pronounced an order while extending the provisions of Section

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Witness may lie but not the circumstances; charges against accused dropped for lack of evidence

Allahabad High Court: A Division Bench comprising of Vipin Sinha and Ifaqat Ali Khan, JJ. dismissed the appeal as the applicant failed

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2014 software engineer rape and murder case| Mere good behaviour of under-trial prisoner doesn’t absolve him of cruel act; death sentence confirmed

“It took me quite a long time develop the voice and now that I have it, I am not going to be

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Completion of investigation without considering outcome of Forensic Science Laboratory cannot be considered a fair investigation

Punjab and Haryana High Court: This petition was filed before a Single Judge Bench of Daya Chaudhary, J., under Section 482 CrPC

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60 years of punishment a “Methuselah” sentence, contrary to the objective of sentencing i.e. rehabilitation

High Court of South Africa, Kwazulu-Natal Division: This appeal was filed before a 3-Judge Bench comprising of Henriques, Lopes, and D Pillay,

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Personal circumstances such as accused being primary caregiver to children considered a mitigating factor while awarding sentence

High Court of South Africa, Kwazulu-Natal Division: A Single Judge Bench of Mbatha, J., mitigated sentence to accused alleged for the offence

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Section 106 Evidence Act not a substitute for the burden of proof which rests on prosecution; murder accused acquitted holding prosecution case based on presumption: Bombay HC

Bombay High Court: A Division Bench comprising of S.S. Shinde and A.S. Gadkari, JJ., allowed a criminal appeal filed against the judgment

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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