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Motive under Prevention of Corruption Act | Court cannot be oblivious to statutory presumption permissible under Section 20: Supreme Court

Supreme Court pointed out that the pre-trap and post-trap proceedings were duly proved by the prosecution in the instant matter through witnesses who supported the prosecution case.

Case Briefs District Court

[Sexual Harassment] Mumbai Court acquits TVF founder Arunabh Kumar on grounds of ‘no concrete evidence’ ‘unreasonable delay in filing FIR’ ‘interest witnesses’ ‘possibility of grudge or rivalry’

The Court acquitted the accused and held that the prosecution failed to prove their case beyond reasonable doubt.

Case Briefs High Courts

Whether pleading guilty in the statement recorded under Section 313 CrPC sufficient for conviction or not? Allahabad High Court answers

Allahabad High Court: Samit Gopal, J. acquitted the appellant of the charges leveled against him of Section 307 of Penal

Case Briefs High Courts

Tripura High Court | Mere presence of the accused person and last seen of the offence cannot draw an inference to committing of the crime ; Conviction reversed

Tripura High Court: The Division Bench of Amarnath Goud and Arindam Lodh, JJ. allowed an appeal which was filed against

Case Briefs High Courts

Sikk HC | “Last seen together theory- Inconclusive in absence of clear motive and beyond doubt circumstantial evidences”: Court acquits

Sikkim High Court: Meenakshi Madan Rai J., while acquitting the accused charged under section 302, 392 and 427 of IPC held that

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

SA HC | Discernment of a trial court not to be altered unless justified

South Africa High Court, Free State Division, Bloemfontein: A Division Bench of Mathebula and Chesiwe, JJ. dismissed the present appeal against convictions

Case Briefs Supreme Court

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

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

Pakistan SC acquits woman convicted of blasphemy due to inconsistencies in prosecution case and failure to prove case beyond reasonable doubt

Supreme Court of Pakistan: A Three-Judge Bench comprising of Mian Saqib Nisar, Asif Saeed Khan Khosa and Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel, JJ.

Case Briefs High Courts

Demand for severe punishment calls for strictest degree of proof: Gauhati High Court

Gauhati High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising Mir Alfaz Ali, J., allowed an appeal as it was unable to persuade itself

Case Briefs High Courts

Acquittal upheld as prosecution failed to prove the case beyond reasonable doubt

Himachal Pradesh High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of Chander Bhusan Barowalia, J., decided a criminal appeal filed by the State