Reverse Burden of Proof Archives

Supreme Court requests HC Chief Justices to examine number of pending cases under UAPA like laws that pose reverse burden of proof

The Court further declined to interfere in the bail granted to the persons accused for derailment of Jnaneswari Express on 28-5-2010 stating that the CBI could not bring to notice subsequent development which would justify this interference.

Case Briefs High Courts

Cal HC | Court explains ”Intelligible testimony” and “reverse burden of proof”; dismisses appeal of accused charged for raping 3 year old girl under S. 6, POCSO Act

Calcutta High Court: The Division Bench of Soumen Sen and Rabindranath Samanta, JJ., dismissed a criminal appeal which was filed against the

Case Briefs High Courts

Raj HC | Allegation of woman set ablaze in view of dowry demand dismissed; Prosecution theory of homicidal death sheer exaggeration

Rajasthan High Court: A Division Bench of Sandeep Mehta and Kumari Prabha Sharma, JJ., dismissed the allegations of dowry demand, cruelty against the

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Reverse Burden of Proof under Section 24 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002– Obligation of the prosecution and the accused and at what stage can this provision be invoked

by Madhav Khurana & Vignaraj Pasayat*