New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Odisha government to decide the remission plea of a "repenting" Ravindra Pal alias Dara Singh, who is serving life sentence for the murders of Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines and his two minor sons in the state's Keonjhar district in 1999. Staines murder case: SC asks Odisha to consider remission plea …
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed a slew of directions in the suo motu criminal writ petition of 2021 concerning the strategy for granting bail, as it held that the states and union territories had an obligation to consider the premature release of all convicts and it was not necessary for them to apply for permanent remission. A …
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the CBI to file its reply on the remission plea of Ravindra Pal alias Dara Singh, who is serving life sentence for the ghastly killing of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two minor sons in Keonjhar district in 1999. Before asking the CBI to file its reply in four weeks, a …
The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, reserved judgment in a plea filed by A.G. Perarivalan, the life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, seeking release from the prison based on the recommendation made by the State Government in September 2018. Per-contra, Senior Advocate, Mr. Rakesh Dwidevi, appearing for the State of Tamil Nadu, argued that as per the proviso to …
The Supreme Court on October 3, directed the Tamil Nadu Government, to decide within four weeks, the representation of Mathaiyan seeking premature release from prison. The bench of the Chief Justice Dipak Misra, and Justices A.M.Khanwilkar, and D.Y.Chandrachud, has also directed the Government to communicate the decision to him, so that he is entitled in law to challenge the same. …
