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NEW DELHI: Taking a liberal approach in granting relief to convicts, Supreme Court has held that even a life convict can be released on bail during pendency of his appeal if he has a fair chance of getting acquitted in a higher court.Applying this principle, a bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and K V…
ROHTAK: A family from Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri district has appealed to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to help repatriate the body of 29-year-old Indian student Vijay Kumar Sheoran, who died in the United Kingdom after a stabbing incident in Worcester last week.In a letter dated November 26 to the external affairs minister, Vijay’s elder…
“The condition to the effect that the petitioner ‘should also share his location 24 x 7 with the IO (investigating officer) through Google’ is not sustainable and the same is accordingly deleted,” ordered Justice Vikas Mahajan on the plea by the accused seeking modification of the bail condition saying it was excessive, intrusive, and unsupported…
Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam NEW DELHI: Delhi police on Thursday told the Supreme Court that when intellectuals become terrorists, they become “more dangerous” than those working on the ground. The police made these statements as it strongly opposed the bail pleas of activists Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and others in connection with the February…
NEW DELHI : The Supreme Court has granted interim bail to social activist Jyoti Jagtap in the Elgar Parishad case.A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma on Wednesday granted her the relief till the next date of hearing in Feb next year, after senior advocate Aparna Bhat told the court that…
Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam NEW DEHI: During a Supreme Court hearing on bail plea in the 2020 Delhi riots case, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, “There was an attempt to divide society on communal lines, it was not merely an agitation against CAA,”Tushar Mehta told the top courtStrenuously“First of all, that myth to be busted….
NEW DELHI: Monday’s tragic incident of a blast outside Red Fort, in which nine people lost their lives, also had a bearing on bail hearing of an accused facing prosecution under anti-terror law UAPA for alleged links with terror organisation Islamic State, with SC dismissing his plea and terming the order as a message. Representing…
BENGALURU: Karnataka high court has granted bail to surrendered Naxalite Laxmi Poojarthi, also known as Thombattu Laxmi or Prema, in three cases registered in Udupi district between 2007 and 2008. The cases, investigated under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Indian Penal Code, and Arms Act, were charge-sheeted earlier this year.Laxmi, a native of Anantapur in…
PATNA: A 35-year-old man out on bail in a rape case allegedly broke into the house of another girl, aged 13, and raped her in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district on Saturday night, leading to his re-arrest Sunday. The accused, Divya Prakash alias Abhinav, was LJP-RV’s labour cell district president. He was expelled from the party, LJP-RV’s…
CHANDIGARH: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator Harmit Singh Pathanmajra, wanted in connection with a rape case, is believed to have fled to Australia after appearing in a video interview with an overseas Punjabi web channel, news agency PTI reported.The first-time MLA from Sanour had been absconding since 2 September. His appearance in the video has…
