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A Delhi Court on Friday adjourned the hearing in the bail plea filed by the accused Shankar Mishra, who was recently arrested for urinating on a 70-year-old woman co-passenger on board an Air India flight in the month of November 2022, under the influence of alcohol. Mishra had filed a fresh bail application seeking regular bail, in November last year Additional Sessions Judge Harjyot Singh Bhalla adjourned the matter for January 30, Monday, after advocate Ankur Mahindro, appearing for the complainant, said that he was not provided with a copy of the bail plea. The court also observed that the…

The Delhi High Court passed guidelines to be followed by the investigating authorities in cases related to the pregnancy of sexually assaulted victims, exceeding 24 weeks [Minor R Thr Mother H v State of NCT of Delhi and anr] The case was observed by Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma. She observed that while passing the orders in the process of medical termination of such victims, crucial time is lost. These examinations are done by a board that endangers the victim’s life. The Court said, “At the time of medical examination of a victim of sexual assault, it will be mandatory to…

The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, ruled that the liability of a murder accused will not be diminished merely because the death of the victim occurred after a considerable lapse of time from when he suffered injuries due to the acts of the accused. [Prasad Pradhan and Another v. State of Chhattisgarh] An opinion was given by the division bench of Justices Krishna Murari and S Ravindra Bhat, that “there can be no stereotypical assumption or formula to conclude that this is a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder only because the death occurred after a lapse of sometime…

Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud, on Wednesday announced that the process of releasing the Supreme Court judgments in regional languages has begun, as an initial step towards the same. 1,091 judgments of the top court will be released in Odia, Garo, and other regional languages on Republic Day. Today morning, CJI Chandrachud informed the Bar regarding the same in open court. “I have some news apart from E-SCR and 34,000 judgments available, so we also now have a number of judgments of the Supreme Court in vernacular language. It will be released on the occasion of Republic Day,” he…

The outgoing Chief Justice of the High Court of Himachal Pradesh, CJ Amjad Sayed, voiced his concerns over the current deadlocks between the central government and the judiciary and concluded that only an independent and strong judiciary can maintain democracy. Judiciary: Spoken by CJ Amjad Sayed during His Fairwell This was spoken by the CJ during his speech during his farewell, organized on 13 January by the Bar. “Only an independent and strong judiciary who is the watchdog of the Constitution of India, and is bestowed powers to uphold the Constitution, can maintain the robust democracy in our country,” he…

On Saturday, the Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud pointed out that there have been many barriers to accessing legal education and entering the legal profession. The CJI took the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) as one of the examples. The CJI said, ‘Only those people can crack CLAT who have access to English schools and good schools. Access to the legal profession? We are laying down barriers. He was speaking at a function in Mumbai, where he was felicitated by the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa. He addressed multiple issues, regarding the Legal profession, which highlighted the issues…

The Delhi Police was questioned by the Supreme Court on Friday, regarding its progress and updates in the investigation of the Hate Speech case over the Hindu Yuva Vahini event organized under the leadership of Sudarshan News TV Editor Suresh Chavhanke in Delhi in December 2021. It was noted that the FIR was filed five months post the incident and no chargesheet has been filed yet. Steps were taken by the division bench comprising of Chief Justice of India, D Y Chandrachud, and Justice P S Narsimha to direct the investigating officer for the placing of on recording the matter…

“Since the case rested on circumstantial evidence, the circumstances put forth should be consistent only with the hypothesis of the guilt of the accused,’ the Court observed. The Calcutta High Court, on 11th January 2024, observed that the ’Suspicion’, upon an alleged, be any high, cannot take place of the proof of guilt. The statement was recently made during the acquittal of two persons, convicted by the trial court, in an acid-attack case (Jiten Barman v. The State of West Bengal) The conviction of those two men by the trial court was repealed by a Bench of Justices, Joymalya Bagchi,…