The Court observed that the petition portrayed a one-sided picture, that criminal law takes care of such situations and that people were not remediless. The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking the creation of a National Commission for Men to look into suicides among married men [Mahesh Tiwari …
Justice Sandeep N Bhatt noted that courts must ensure that criminal prosecution is not used as an instrument of harassment or for seeking private vendetta. The Gujarat High Court recently quashed a First Information Report (FIR) lodged against an 86-year-old woman for cruelty under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), while noting the …
The Chief Justice was speaking at the inauguration ceremony of an additional sessions court in South 24 Parganas. Calcutta High Court Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam on Wednesday called for judicial officers to show more sensitivity towards human trafficking cases, as well as cases falling under the stringent Protection Of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO Act). The …
How Legal System Protects and Honours the Senior Citizens in India? The main idea and concept of Indian Tradition and culture is that everyone must respect our elders, seniors irrespective of whoever they are. It is our responsibility and duty to listen and obey our elders. This is said because it …
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Supreme Court: Stop Criminalizing Civil Disputes To create a peer police pressure, civil disputes such as breach of contractual obligations were converted into criminal complaints and First Information Reports u/s 406 (Criminal Breach of Trust) or 415 (Cheating) were registered. With the increase in those Criminal Cases coming forward, Hon’ble Hon’ble Supreme Court in …
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Bail Rule: Jail Exception The Principle of Bail as Rule and Jail as an exception, finds its very source from Article 21 and Article 22 of the Constitution of India and also from the well known principle of “Presumption of Innocence, Unless Proved Guilty”. Only because a person is accused to have a committed an …
Bail Laws in India Just because a person is accused of an offence, it is not expected to keep the person in custody for an endless period i.e. end of the trail, when most of the cases end in acquittal. And since the accused is presumed to be innocent unless proved guilty beyond reasonable doubt, …
Considerations’ for Regular Bail in Commercial Quantity: NDPS ACT The cardinal principle of presumption of innocane unless proved guilty or bail rule jail exception is not applicable to special Acts such as NDPS, MCOCA etc, because of the fact that the offences under those special acts are considered to be the gravest one and they …
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