Bombay HC Directs State Govt To Pay Rs.10 Lakh To Parents For Negligent Investigation Into The Death Of Their Daughter [Read Judgment]
5 years, 7 months ago

Bombay HC Directs State Govt To Pay Rs.10 Lakh To Parents For Negligent Investigation Into The Death Of Their Daughter [Read Judgment]

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In an unprecedented ruling, the Bombay High Court has directed State government to pay Rs.10 lakh to parents of a minor girl for negligent investigation. While the first post mortem report of the victim was prepared by Dr. Pankaj Gajare, another report was prepared by Dr.Bhalchandra Chikalkar on the directions of the High Court after Varis Ali filed a petition alleging faulty investigation in the case. After examining the evidence on record, Court said- "Section 299 of Indian Penal Code states that whenever death is caused by bodily injury, the person who causes such bodily injury is deemed to have caused such death and it constitutes a culpable homicide. However, Court noted- "Therefore, whether plywood sheets stored in the godown of accused persons slipped and fell on the person of deceased victim because of its negligent storing or then because of some human act is the moot question which needed investigation and answer.

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Bombay HC upholds death sentences for father, son in quadruple family murder case
2 months ago

Bombay HC upholds death sentences for father, son in quadruple family murder case

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has confirmed death sentences for a father and son convicted of murdering four family members, whilst acquitting a third defendant. The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has confirmed death sentences for a father and son convicted of murdering four family members. ) While finding sufficient grounds to uphold the …

Not Allowing Daughter-In-Law To Watch TV, Meet Neighbours, Go To Temple Alone & Making Her Sleep On Carpet Is Not Cruelty: Bombay High Court
2 months ago

Not Allowing Daughter-In-Law To Watch TV, Meet Neighbours, Go To Temple Alone & Making Her Sleep On Carpet Is Not Cruelty: Bombay High Court

Live Law  

Quashing a 20-year-old order convicting a man and his family for cruelty towards his deceased wife, the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court said that the allegations of taunting the deceased, not allowing her to watch TV, not allowing her to go alone to the temple and making her sleep on a carpet would not constitute the offence of …

Acid Murder: Family Members Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for Daughter's Death
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Acid Murder: Family Members Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for Daughter's Death

Hindustan Times  

A 19-year-old woman was murdered by her family with acid for resisting her arranged marriage in Uttar Pradesh. The father and four relatives involved in the crime were sentenced to life imprisonment and fined ₹40,000 each. The case is a reminder of the dangers of arranged marriages and the importance of respecting personal choices.

Undertrials Unable To Effectively Defend Themselves Due To Poor Socio-Economic Status, Leads To Sole Focus On Gravity Of Offence: Calcutta HC Reverses Death Sentence
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Undertrials Unable To Effectively Defend Themselves Due To Poor Socio-Economic Status, Leads To Sole Focus On Gravity Of Offence: Calcutta HC Reverses Death Sentence

Live Law  

The Calcutta High Court has recently reversed a death sentence awarded to a man who was accused of brutally murdering a home-maker and her 13-year-old daughter with a sharp and heavy weapon.A division bench of Justices Soumen Sen and Partha Sarathi Sen were adjudicating upon a death reference case wherein the trial court had handed a death sentence to Padam …

Firing Outside Salman Khan's House: Plea By Accused's Mother In Punjab & Haryana HC Seeks CBI Probe Into Accused's Custodial Death
8 months, 1 week ago

Firing Outside Salman Khan's House: Plea By Accused's Mother In Punjab & Haryana HC Seeks CBI Probe Into Accused's Custodial Death

Live Law  

The mother of the accused in the firing outside Salman Khan's house case, who is alleged to have committed suicide in Mumbai police's lock-up has moved the Punjab & Haryana High Court seeking a CBI probe into the alleged custodial death and for re-conduct of post-mortem.The Mumbai Police has claimed that deceased Anuj Kumar was one of the four accused …

Hyderabad man gets lifer for killing his mother for money
1 year, 5 months ago

Hyderabad man gets lifer for killing his mother for money

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: A 24-year-old man accused of killing his mother in 2022 after she refused to give him money for buying alcohol was sentenced to life imprisonment and fined Rs10,000. Additional public prosecutor S. Mukunda Reddy said the court began the trial in September 2022 and completed it expeditiously in 11 months’ time. During the trial, the court examined 15 witnesses …

Calcutta HC Suspends Sentence of Woman Convicted for Killing of 6-Yr-Old Step-daughter
1 year, 6 months ago

Calcutta HC Suspends Sentence of Woman Convicted for Killing of 6-Yr-Old Step-daughter

News 18  

The Calcutta High Court recently suspended the sentence of a woman who was convicted for murdering her six-year-old step-daughter by poisoning. “There is no certainty of the appeal being finally decided at an early date given the large number of cases pending, and also on an overall appreciation and assimilation of the nature and quality of the evidence on record, …

Aryan Khan Case: Bombay HC Orders No Coercive Action Against Ex-NCB Officer Till Monday
1 year, 7 months ago

Aryan Khan Case: Bombay HC Orders No Coercive Action Against Ex-NCB Officer Till Monday

ABP News  

The Bombay High Court on Friday ordered no coercive action against former zonal director of NCB Sameer Wankhede till May 22 in a corruption case related to the Cordelia cruise drug bust. Wankhede had filed a petition seeking the quashing of the Central Bureau of Investigation FIR against him for allegedly demanding a Rs 25 crore bribe from superstar Shah …

'Held Father Figure, Betrayed Trust': Bombay HC Upholds Life Sentence Of 55-Yr-Old For Raping His Domestic Helper's Minor Daughter
2 years ago

'Held Father Figure, Betrayed Trust': Bombay HC Upholds Life Sentence Of 55-Yr-Old For Raping His Domestic Helper's Minor Daughter

Live Law  

The Bombay High Court on Thursday upheld the life sentence of a 55-year-old man convicted for raping a minor girl stating that the appellant, being a fatherly figure in the girl's life, betrayed her trust. The court observed that the victim's evidence, corroborated by the medical and scientific evidence, indicates that she had been sexually assaulted by the appellant. The …

Bombay HC allows vegetative girl's father to withdraw Rs 1.15 Crore deposited by Railways
2 years, 3 months ago

Bombay HC allows vegetative girl's father to withdraw Rs 1.15 Crore deposited by Railways

India Today  

The Bombay High Court has permitted the father of a girl rendered vegetative after a road accident on Marine Drive in Mumbai to withdraw Rs 1.15 crore deposited by the Western Railway. Advocate Saumen Vidyarthi, appearing for Nidhi's father, told the court that the original compensation claim was Rs 2.22 crores and the tribunal's order awarding compensation of Rs 69.92 …

Calcutta HC Grants Anticipatory Bail To Youth Leader Meenakshi Mukherjee In Case Of Alleged Violence During Protest Against Murder Of Anis Khan
2 years, 8 months ago

Calcutta HC Grants Anticipatory Bail To Youth Leader Meenakshi Mukherjee In Case Of Alleged Violence During Protest Against Murder Of Anis Khan

Live Law  

The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday granted anticipatory bail to prominent youth leader and president of West Bengal Demorcatic Youth Federation of India Meenakshi Mukherjee in a case pertaining to the incident of alleged violence during a march in Howrah on February 26 to protest the murder of youth leader Anis Khan.Meenakshi and 16 others were arrested and slapped with …

Chhattisgarh: Former Odisha MLA gets life imprisonment for 2016 murder of mother-daughter duo
2 years, 9 months ago

Chhattisgarh: Former Odisha MLA gets life imprisonment for 2016 murder of mother-daughter duo

Firstpost  

Co-accused Vardhan Toppo, Anup Sai’s driver, who was also arrested was acquitted for lack of evidence Raigarh: A court in Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh district on Saturday sentenced a former MLA from Odisha to life imprisonment for the murder of a mother-daughter duo in 2016. Additional District and Session Judge Kamlesh Jagdalla convicted Anup Sai under Indian Penal Code sections 302 and …

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

Kolkata: Minor girl found brutally murdered, family accuses police of inaction
3 years, 11 months ago

Kolkata: Minor girl found brutally murdered, family accuses police of inaction

Op India  

The detective department of Kolkata police Monday arrested a 43-year-old man, who was allegedly involved in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in north Kolkata on the night of February 3. The police came to know of Raghubir’s whereabouts after they arrested the first accused, a security guard of the abandoned building in Kolkata’s Jorabagan area where the …

Why Rs. 10 Lakh Compensation Not Be Recovered From IOs Whose Perfunctory Investigation Allowed Brutal Murderer To Escape Clutches Of Law? Asks Madras HC
4 years, 4 months ago

Why Rs. 10 Lakh Compensation Not Be Recovered From IOs Whose Perfunctory Investigation Allowed Brutal Murderer To Escape Clutches Of Law? Asks Madras HC

Live Law  

The Madras High Court has sought a report from the state government and the DGP as to Whether any disciplinary proceedings have been initiated as against the officials, who are responsible for acquittal because of their perfunctory investigation. The Inspectors of Police have conducted the investigation in this case and as pointed out supra, a shabby investigation was conducted by …

Bombay HC Confirms Death Penalty To Man Who Killed Mother, Wife & Daughter [Read Judgment]
5 years, 5 months ago

Bombay HC Confirms Death Penalty To Man Who Killed Mother, Wife & Daughter [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The Bombay High Court has confirmed the death sentence awarded to one Vishwajit Masalkar, 25-year-old convicted under Section 302 of IPC for killing his mother, wife and two-year-old daughter in order to marry another woman. Division bench of Justice BP Dharmadhikari and Justice SS Joshi confirmed the death sentence awarded to the accused and concluded- "All the aforesaid. Division bench …

Punjab & Haryana HC Orders Rape Convict, Mother To Pay Rs 90 Lakh As Compensation To Victim, Her Parents [Read Order]
6 years, 4 months ago

Punjab & Haryana HC Orders Rape Convict, Mother To Pay Rs 90 Lakh As Compensation To Victim, Her Parents [Read Order]

Live Law  

In an unprecedented decision, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has ordered one Nishan Singh Brar, convicted of abduction and rape of a minor victim girl, and his mother Navjot Kaur to pay Rs 90 lakh towards compensation.Nishan Singh has already been convicted by the trial court and sentenced to life imprisonment.The court ordered Nishan Singh to pay Rs 50 …

Bombay HC Orders Registration Of Murder Case Against 4 Cops For Custodial Death, Awards Rs 5L Compensation To Bereaved Family [Read Judgment]
6 years, 4 months ago

Bombay HC Orders Registration Of Murder Case Against 4 Cops For Custodial Death, Awards Rs 5L Compensation To Bereaved Family [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

Awarding a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the dependants of a labourer who died due to custodial torture, the Bombay High Court has ordered that the four policemen involved in the incident be booked for committing murder with common intention while also registering a suo motu contempt proceedings against one of them for violating the mandatory directions given by …

Punjab & Haryana HC Confirms Death Penalty For Haryana Women & Her Lover For Murdering 7 Members Of Her Family [Read Judgment]
6 years, 5 months ago

Punjab & Haryana HC Confirms Death Penalty For Haryana Women & Her Lover For Murdering 7 Members Of Her Family [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday confirmed the death sentence awarded to a Haryana woman and her boyfriend for poisoning and strangulating seven members of her family, including four children, in September 2009.The Bench comprising Justice A.B. The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday confirmed the death sentence awarded to a Haryana woman and her boyfriend for …

Don't want compensation, just hang guilty: Mandsaur rape victim's father
6 years, 6 months ago

Don't want compensation, just hang guilty: Mandsaur rape victim's father

Deccan Chronicle  

Indore: Father of the eight-year-old Mandsaur rape victim has demanded death sentence for the accused. I just want the accused to be hanged: Father of the 8-year-old girl who was raped in #Mandsaur #MadhyaPradesh pic.twitter.com/X9KqGblAdl — ANI July 1, 2018 Meanwhile, Women and Child Development Minister Archana Chitnis said that Rs 5 lakh has been transferred to victim's father account …

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