Category: LEGAL NEWS

Courts should take a liberal approach when appeals against convictions are filed with some delay by those in custody, the Delhi High Court has said.The high court said delay does not work to the advantage of an incarcerated person and people who are in custody do not have the advantage of approaching a counsel and taking legal advice at their own free will, which a free person has.”Courts cannot adopt a hyper technical approach, while considering an application seeking condonation of delay filed against conviction by a person in custody,”…

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An Indian man, who fled to India in 2017 after a sexual assault on a woman in the UK, has been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for the rape.Ajay Rana, 35, was found guilty of raping the woman in the back of his housemate’s car in the town of Lowestoft in Suffolk, eastern England, after offering her a lift on December, 9, 2017.He then fled to India on December 13 claiming he was visiting his ill mother. He was sentenced at Ipswich Crown Court in Suffolk after being found guilty…

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CBI told the Supreme Court Friday that it is ready to take over the investigation into the multi-crore bitcoin Ponzi scheme in which several investors were allegedly lured on the promise of handsome returns.CBI said this before a vacation bench comprising Justices M R Shah and A S Bopanna, hearing a plea filed by one of the arrested accused in the case seeking bail. The accused has also sought a CBI investigation in the case saying cases have been lodged against him in several states.Bitcoin or cryptocurrency is unregulated digital…

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CBI told the Supreme Court Friday that it is ready to take over the investigation into the multi-crore bitcoin Ponzi scheme in which several investors were allegedly lured on the promise of handsome returns.CBI said this before a vacation bench comprising Justices M R Shah and A S Bopanna, hearing a plea filed by one of the arrested accused in the case seeking bail.The accused has also sought a CBI investigation in the case saying cases have been lodged against him in several states.Bitcoin or cryptocurrency is unregulated digital money…

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Fire clearance norms of the AAP government for operating restaurants here were “moronic” and responsible for fire accidents, the Delhi High Court said Thursday. The observation by Justice Vibhu Bakhru came after the court was told that according to the guidelines, a fire clearance was not granted by considering the capacity of a building where one or more restaurants may be located, but by taking into account the number of seats in each eatery. Therefore, the court noted, if a building has a separate restaurant on each of its floors,…

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The Supreme Court Friday expressed concern over “illegal” lawyers strike paralysing judicial work in courts of West Bengal and granted protection from arrest to BJP leader Praveen Agarwal in an alleged rioting case.   The top court said litigants have to suffer due to paralysing of judicial work and hoped wiser sense will prevail and the Bar Council and Bar Associations will look into the matter with all seriousness. A vacation bench of Justices M R Shah, Aniruddha Bose and A S Bopanna directed Agarwal to appear before the investigating…

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Litigants and advocates will now be able to file their cases anytime from anywhere as the district court at Tis Hazari Courts Complex launched an e-filing facility Friday for arbitration matters.A new homepage for the court’s website and a new software for its mediation centre was also launched.The new e-filing feature would help lawyers or litigants to file cases online and keep a track of the already filed ones. The arbitration cases can be filed online at anytime at the web portal www.efiling-dl.ecourts.gov.in.The online portal was launched by District and…

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New Delhi, May 22 (DIN NEWS) The Supreme Court Wednesday granted protection from arrest till May 28 to Arjun Singh, the BJP candidate from Barrackpore constituency in West Bengal, in criminal cases lodged against him by the state police. A vacation bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra and M R Shah made it clear that Singh will not be arrested by the state police till May 28 in connection with around 20 criminal cases lodged against him. Allowing Singh to participate in the counting of votes on May 23, the bench…

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The Supreme Court Tuesday stayed the Delhi High Court order which had held that the 2016 black money law cannot be allowed to operate with retrospective effect from July 2015 to book and probe offenders.A vacation bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra also stayed the May 16 order of the high court, which had restrained the Income Tax (I-T) department from taking any action against VVIP chopper scam accused Gautam Khaitan, against whom a black money case has been lodged. “Notice. The impugned order (of the high court) is stayed,”…

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The Madras High Court rapped actor-politician Kamal Haasan for his Hindu extremist remark on Monday, observing that identifying a criminal with a religion, caste or race would definitely sow the seeds of hatred among people.Granting anticipatory bail to Haasan in a case filed over his controversial remark made at a recent poll rally, Justice R Pugalendhi of the Madurai bench of the high court also said hate speeches had become a common affair of late.Haasan, the founder of the Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM), apprehended arrest in the case filed against…

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