Delhi Court| Compelling accused to give his system password to IO/Police violates Article 20(3) and S 161(2) CrPC
Rouse Avenue District Courts, Delhi: In a case filed by Central Bureau of Investigation questioning the power of investigating agency
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Tripura High Court| 28-year-old woman to get Rs. 2.5 lakh compensation in custodial torture case
Tripura High Court: In a public interest litigation concerning custodial torture on a 28-year-old woman in the police lockup, the division bench
‘Non-compliance of Section 94 JJ Act’; Bombay High Court set aside order sending a juvenile to regular court due to wrong assessment of age
Bombay High Court: In a case filed by a father (‘petitioner’) seeking for setting aside the order passed by the Juvenile Justice
Calcutta High Court | Fundamental duty to protect animals from cruelty; Directions issued to SP for finding out stolen pig from Court premises
Calcutta High Court: Shampa Sarkar, J. disposed of a writ petition with certain directions to police authorities in relation to an investigation
Delhi High Court: Delhi police well within jurisdiction to issue show cause to restaurant serving alcohol beyond permissible limits; Writ petition not maintainable
Delhi High Court: Jasmeet Singh, J. did not interfere with the impugned show cause notice issued by Delhi Police to a restaurant
Madhya Pradesh High Court lambasts police force for blatant callousness and failure in tracing an 11-year-old missing minor girl
Madhya Pradesh High Court: The Division Bench of Rohit Arya and Milind Ramesh Phadke, JJ. took strong exception to the functioning of
Rajasthan High Court| Police may charge fee from couple seeking police protection if the income is more than taxable income
Rajasthan High Court: Sameer Jain J. granted police protection and directed the State authorities to charge an appropriate fee from the couple
Aadhaar Card for Sex Workers| Supreme Court bats for sex workers’ right to dignity; directs UIDAI to issue Aadhaar Card without insisting on address proof
“…basic protection of human decency and dignity extends to sex workers and their children, who, bearing the brunt of social stigma attached to their work, are removed to the fringes of the society, deprived of their right to live with dignity and opportunities to provide the same to their children.”
Supreme Court affirms HC’s order upholding appointment of Mr. Dinkar Gupta as Punjab DSP
“When a person takes a chance and participates, thereafter he cannot, because the result is unpalatable, turn around to contend that the process was unfair or the selection committee was not properly constituted.”
13-years of long fight, yet State’s investigation unsatisfactory: Whether exemplary costs to a wife fighting for a decade to secure her missing husband’s presence would be granted or not? Read Bom HC’s decision
Bombay High Court: While noting the failure of State Machinery in securing the presence of a person for 13 years, Division Bench
Mushrooming Unemployment | Madras HC on menace of job racketing and scams cropping up || Detailed report on how a person fraudulently acted as an employee of Court cheated several people
Madras High Court: Addressing the issue of the growing menace of job racketing and tackling the unemployment problem, Division Bench of N.
Pat HC | Can a person be convicted for murder solely on the evidence gathered by the police sniffer dog? Court answers
Patna High Court: Noticing discrepancies in the Trial the Division Bench of Ashwani Kumar Singh and Anil Kumar Sinha, JJ., acquitted a
Jhar HC | “Is the police taking side by not bringing victim in witness box?” HC comes down heavily on authorities for discrepancies in sexual assault case, warns authorities of contempt proceeding
Jharkhand High Court: Ananda Sen, J., slammed police authorities for tainted investigation and laxity in a sexual assault case. While warning the
[Violence against doctors] Ker HC | Read why HC granted pre-arrest bail to the police officer accused of manhandling a doctor
Kerala High Court: K.Haripal, J., granted bail to the Police Officer accused of manhandling a doctor and subjecting him to violence. The
Jhar HC | Practice of filing a writ petition Art. 226 of the Constitution of India because a person has a grievance that his FIR has not been registered by the police must be discouraged
Jharkhand High Court: Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J. dismissed the petition being devoid of merits. The instant writ petition under Article 226 of
MP HC | Police cannot take inappropriate disciplinary action and subject citizens to torture for not following lockdown norms; Court directs action
Madhya Pradesh High Court: The Division Bench of Mohammad Rafiq, CJ. and Atul Sreedharan, J., decided on a petition which was filed
Tribal men assaulted by police: NHRC asks M.P. Government to pay in full its recommended amount of Rs 1 lakh
The National Human Rights Commission reiterating its recommendations for the payment of Rs 1 lakh each to the five victims of police
UP Police Constables appointments| Shifting of candidates selected against posts meant for reserved categories, to open category as per Court directions hence valid: Supreme Court
“With the availability of 3295 additional posts, in the re-working exercise, if the candidates who were already selected against reserved posts were entitled to be considered against open category posts, that exercise cannot be termed as illegal or invalid on any count.”
De codification of Section 102 CrPC: Can police freeze “bank account & money” during an investigation under Section 102?
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SC finds investigation in Ram Nath Chaubey murder case involving BJP MLA Sushil Singh a sham “designed to conceal more than to investigate”. SIT to takeover
“To say that further investigation was not possible as the informant had not supplied adequate materials to investigate, to our mind, is a preposterous statement, coming from the police.”