The Delhi High Court has ruled that the trial courts must promptly pass orders and must not mechanically adjourn bail applications moved in cases covered by Section 479 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, where the undertrial prisoners have already undergone one half of the maximum imprisonment. The Court was informed that while the bail application was filed by him …
The Delhi High Court has held that a man accused of sexually abusing a minor cannot be punished under Section 6 of the POCSO Act for the offence of 'aggravated penetrative sexual assault' when the alleged act falls short of 'penetration'.The bench of Justice Jasmeet Singh held that without penetration, such act is only an attempt to rape or aggravated …
The Karnataka High Court on Monday held certain provisions of the Karnataka Police Act 2021, by which the state government has banned online games with stakes to be ultra vires to the Constitution and struck them down. Earlier, the Madras High Court had struck down a law passed by the Tamil Nadu assembly banning all kinds of online games, including …
