Category: LEGAL NEWS

New Delhi, Aug 6 (DINN) The Goa Police claimed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday that there were “contemporaneous” WhatsApp messages and e-mails which showed that Tehelka magazine’s founder Tarun Tejpal should face trial in an alleged sexual assault case lodged against him by a former woman colleague. The police, while opposing Tejpal’s plea seeking quashing of charges framed against him, told a bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra that there was “ample material” warranting trial in the case. Tejpal’s counsel refuted the allegations and told the bench, also comprising…

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New Delhi, Aug 6 (DINN) The Supreme Court observed Tuesday that nine states have not followed the procedure in rejecting the claims of tribals over forest land and said the matter related to eviction of around 11.8 lakh alleged illegal forest dwellers is “important”. A bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra, M R Shah and B R Gavai asked several states, which have not yet filed affidavits giving details about the procedure adopted in rejecting the claims, to file their responses by September 6. “Nine states say they have not followed…

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New Delhi, Aug 5 (DINN) The government’s decision to abrogate Article 370, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, evoked mixed response from legal experts on Monday as some hailed it as “historic” and “long overdue” step while others called it “political misadventure” fraught with danger. The Modi government has abolished Article 370 and simultaneously moved a separate bill to bifurcate the state into two separate Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. Senior advocate and constitutional law expert Rakesh Dwivedi said: “It (the decision) is completely legal.…

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New Delhi, Aug 5 (DINN) A Delhi court directed on Monday that expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, accused of raping a minor girl at his residence in Unnao in 2017, be shifted to Tihar jail here from Sitapur prison in Uttar Pradesh. District Judge Dharmesh Sharma put up the matter for argument on framing charges in the rape case — one of the four related cases transferred to Delhi — for August 7. Both Sengar and his accomplice Shashi Singh, who had allegedly lured the victim into going to…

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The Supreme Court on Friday sought response from the Centre on a plea seeking CBI or SIT probe into complaints of “large-scale” and “well-organised” kidney transplant scam involving large corporate hospitals in various states. A bench of Justices S A Bobde and B R Gavai also issued notice to the Union ministries of law and justice, health and family welfare, and women and child development on the plea of a 23-month-old disabled baby who has approached the court through his mother Sapna Jain.The minor boy is suffering from West Syndrome…

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The Supreme Court Friday said it will hold day-to-day hearing from August 6 to decide the politically sensitive Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute in Ayodhya as the efforts to arrive at an amicable settlement through mediation have failed.The apex court took note of the report of the three member mediation panel, headed by former apex court judge FMI Kalifulla, that the mediation proceedings which went on for about four months have not resulted in any final settlement and it has to decide the matter pending before it. “We have received…

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Within a couple of days of the car crash in which the Unnao rape survivor was seriously injured and two of her aunts killed, a letter written to the Chief Justice of India by the victim’s family has come to light, expressing threat and danger to their lives allegedly by the accused persons in the case.An official of the Supreme Court said the letter written in Hindi has been received by the office of the Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi who has asked the court’s Secretary General to prepare a note…

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A court here has declared two men guilty of raping a 15-year-old girl six years ago after befriending her, ruling that the minor’s consent for physical relation was inconsequential.Additional Sessions Judge Umed Singh Grewal sentenced Parvesh Rana (30) and Ashish Sehrawat (41) to jail term already undergone by them during the trial. “It has been observed by the court that the physical encounter with the prosecutrix was with her consent. Convicts Parvesh has remained in jail for more than six years and Ashish for nearly five and half years (as…

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The Bombay High Court on Thursday directed its registry department to make arrangements on July 30 to film hearing of the bail pleas of three senior doctors, arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of their junior colleague at a civic-run hospital here.Justice D S Naidu was hearing bail pleas filed by the Hema Ahuja, Bhakti Meher and Ankita Khandelwal, arrested on May 29 for allegedly making casteist slurs and abetting the suicide of their colleague Dr Payal Tadvi.Tadvi (26), a second-year postgraduate medical student attached to B Y L Nair…

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New Delhi, Jul 24 (DIN NEWS) The Delhi High Court directed the Centre on Wednesday to examine whether Google should be restrained from uploading maps of India, including defence installations, on its web service. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar issued the directions while disposing a plea moved by a lawyer, Kisalaya Shukla, who has contended that defence establishments that are closed for public are easily accessible through satellite images uploaded on Google Earth. In the petition, the lawyer has said only the…

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