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Sub standard quality of testimony of victim, absence of scuffle injuries: Bombay High Court acquits rape, POCSO accused

The Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court, on January 15, acquitted a 26-year-old accused charged under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO Act) for the offence of…

UP Police filed an FIR against “The Wire” for promoting fake news

An FIR against The Wire's founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan has been reported by the UP Police for his tweet regarding a report on The Wire in which the family of…

RESUMPTION OF PHYSICAL HEARINGS WITH VIRTUAL HEARING IN HYBRID MANNER

Supreme court advocates on record association has written to chief justice of india to grant resumption of physical hearing with the existing virtual Courts in a hybrid manner. It has…

Supreme Court to decide filing period of chargesheet in matter of Default Bail

In this case, the accused had been booked under Section 3 of the Official Secrets Act, 1923, for allegedly leaking information to the Chinese Agents. The offence which was alleged…

Mandeep Pandey, Freelance Journalist picked from Singhu Border and sent to 14 days Judicial Custody, Bail Hearing Today

Mandeep Punia, a freelance journalist and contributor for The Caravan magazine, was covering the farmers' protest and subsequent clashes at Singhu border when he was detained by the Delhi Police…

Case of the National Herald: Delhi court abolishes criminal proceedings against Motilal Vora, the late Congress leader

In the National Herald Case, Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court come from different sources the criminal proceedings against Congress leader Motilal Vohra. After the late Congress leader's counsel placed his death…

Mahatma Gandhi statue vandalised in US; India demands action

The 6-ft tall, 650-pound (294 kg) bronze statue of Gandhi, in the Central Park of the City of Davis in Northern California, appeared to have been sawed off at the…

FIR against web series “Mirzapur” is prima facie inaccurate, says Allahabad HC

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BackgroundThe First Information Report that was registered against the petitioners, under Section 67 - A of Information Technology Act and Sections 295 - A, 504, 505 read with Section 34…

Actor Sonu Sood Moves SC against Bombay HC’s Order Refusing to Grant Relief against BMC Notice

A special leave petition under article 136 of Indian Constitution, has been filed before the Supreme Court by Sonu Sood challenging the Bombay HC's recent order dismissing their appeal against…

Rehearing of Appeal on Questions of Law as well as Fact in the Jurisdiction of Appellate Court mentioned u/s 96 of CPC : SC

In the case of Manjula vs. Shyamsundar [CIVIL APPEAL NO. 6744 of 2013], supreme court observed that an appellate court's jurisdiction u/s 96 of cpc, involves a rehearing of appeal…