HC sets aside life imprisonment, says prosecution case ‘doubtful, improbable’
4 months, 2 weeks ago

HC sets aside life imprisonment, says prosecution case ‘doubtful, improbable’

The Hindu  

Observing that trial courts cannot base their conviction on a confession which was inadmissible, the Telangana High Court had acquitted yet another person who was awarded life imprisonment in a murder case. The bench of Justices K. Surender and Anil Kumar Jukanti, setting aside the conviction and life sentence given to an auto-rickshaw driver Wadde Raju, directed the police to set him free immediately. In the present case, the Family Court-cum-VIII Additional Sessions Judge held Raju guilty of murdering a woman Shanthamma and handed him a life-term jail sentence nine years ago. “Conviction in the present case was based on the prosecution case projecting the accused as a serial killer The evidence adduced by the prosecution is highly discrepant, unbelievable and contradictory,” the judgment said.

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Withholding Rape Victim's Medico Legal Report Raises Adverse Presumption Against Prosecution Case: Patna HC Acquits Life Convict After 12 Yrs
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Withholding Rape Victim's Medico Legal Report Raises Adverse Presumption Against Prosecution Case: Patna HC Acquits Life Convict After 12 Yrs

Live Law  

The Patna High Court has acquitted a man 12 years after conviction for rape, while observing that withholding a rape victim's medico-legal examination report raises adverse presumption against the prosecution's case. More so, when the informant was examined by doctors at Banka and Bhagalpur hospital withholding the medico legal examination's report raises adverse presumption against the proseuction case. Even suggestion …

HC acquits murder case convict, sets aside life imprisonment sentence
4 months, 2 weeks ago

HC acquits murder case convict, sets aside life imprisonment sentence

The Hindu  

The life imprisonment sentence awarded nearly nine years ago by a trial court of Siddipet to a person holding him guilty of murdering his mother had been set aside by the Telangana High Court. A division bench of Justices K. Surender and J. Sreenivas Rao, pronouncing verdict in the criminal appeal petition filed by the ‘convict’ P. Pochaiah, directed the …

Dr Subbiah Murder | Trial Court Showed "Callous Attitude" In Failing To Appreciate Evidence, Disregarded Legal Proposition: Madras High Court
6 months ago

Dr Subbiah Murder | Trial Court Showed "Callous Attitude" In Failing To Appreciate Evidence, Disregarded Legal Proposition: Madras High Court

Live Law  

While setting aside the conviction of all 9 accused in the infamous Dr. Subbiah murder case, the Madras High Court recently observed that the trial court had taken a callous approach in the case, by not appreciating the evidence before it and disregarding the settled legal proposition. “We thought it fit to touch upon this aspect also to highlight the …

Trial Court Cannot Morally Convict Accused In Absence Of Legal Proof: Karnataka High Court Sets Aside Murder Conviction, Life Sentence
8 months, 1 week ago

Trial Court Cannot Morally Convict Accused In Absence Of Legal Proof: Karnataka High Court Sets Aside Murder Conviction, Life Sentence

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court has set aside the murder conviction and life sentence imposed on three accused of setting ablaze a woman. Citing prosecution's failure to establish its case beyond reasonable doubt, a Division bench of Justice Sreenivas Harish Kumar and Justice S Rachaiah remarked, “It appears that the trial court has morally convicted the accused in the absence of …

Chandrasekharan murder case: Kerala HC upholds conviction of 12 accused
10 months ago

Chandrasekharan murder case: Kerala HC upholds conviction of 12 accused

Hindustan Times  

The Kerala high court on Monday upheld the conviction of 12 accused, including local Communist Party of India leaders, and set aside the acquittal of two others by a trial court in the case of the murder of TP Chandrasekharan, founder of Revolutionary Marxist Party, by a group of assailants in May 2012. Of the 12 accused convicted by the …

After 12 years in jail, Bombay HC sets man free citing lack of evidence
2 years, 6 months ago

After 12 years in jail, Bombay HC sets man free citing lack of evidence

India Today  

The Bombay High Court has allowed the appeal of a man who was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Palghar district court for killing his wife in 2010 and set him free citing a lack of evidence. On October 18, 2010, Laxman Bhoye had lodged a report at the Kasa Police Station against Dahanu resident Suresh Bhagat alleging that around …

Bombay HC reduces rape accused's lifer to 10-year jail term, child to get Rs 2 lakh compensation
2 years, 9 months ago

Bombay HC reduces rape accused's lifer to 10-year jail term, child to get Rs 2 lakh compensation

India Today  

The Bombay High Court reduced the life sentence commuted to a rape accused to 10 years in prison. The bench of Justices Sadhna Jadhav and PK Chavan said, "Looking to the young age of the accused and his future prospects in his profession as a Disk Jocky as well as the fact of his willingness to provide adequate compensation to …

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