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Punjab and Haryana High Court quashes FIR against AAP leaders in protest over Lakhimpur Kheri incident

“In the absence of any allegation of commission of the offences by an unlawful assembly, as chargesheet has not been filed under Sections 147 as 147 and 149 of the IPC, the petitioners cannot be held liable for the alleged acts of causing hurt or assault by any of the protestors, even if the allegations are accepted of accepted as true.”

Case Briefs High Courts

‘Consideration of PO Act is right of accused and duty of Courts’; Gauhati HC grants benefit under PO Act to Headmaster & his son convicted of assaulting student’s mother

“The Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 was a milestone in the progress of the modern liberal trend of reform in the field of Penology. It was the result of recognition of the doctrine that the object of criminal law was more about the reformation of the offender than punishing him.”

Case Briefs High Courts

Day to day bickering between husband-wife does not amount to cruelty under Section 498A of the IPC: Calcutta High Court

Calcutta High Court held that there were latches on the part of the Trial Court in appreciation of evidence with regards to the alleged offence under Section 498A of the IPC.