The accused, Mr. Kaleem, was arrested in 2019 owing to the presence of 349.25 kilograms of Ganja on the accused; however, the learned counsel for the applicant, Shri Indrajeet Shukla, submitted before Justice Siddharth of the Allahabad High Court that the arrest of the accused was false owing to there being no public witness to […]
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Marriage is permissible only between a biological man and a biological woman: Solicitor General Tushar Mehta
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A two-judge bench of Justice D. N. Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh was hearing a couple of petitions regarding the legal recognition of same-sex marriages and marriages within the LGBTQIAP+ community under existing laws like the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, the Special Marriages Act, 1954 and the Foreign Marriage Act, 1969. Abhijit Iyer Mitra submitted […]
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Metropolitan Magistrate Yashshree Marulkar sentences a man to three years of rigorous imprisonment for intentionally flashing his genitals to a woman in S. K. Patil Garden with the intention of causing harm to the woman
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The informant, an employee of N. N. Jain Associates at Aman Chambers, Churni Road, Mumbai, left her office on September 18, 2021, at 05:45 P.M. and visited S. K. Patil Garden, wherein the informant sat on a bench in the garden whilst watching a lecture on the internet on her phone. The informant noticed the […]
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Although detention of a dead body causes insult and humiliation to the relative, it does not amount to an offence under the SC & ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 unless it is proven that the detention occurred due to either the dead person or its relative/s belonging to a Scheduled Caste
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Mr. Indrajit Dilip Patil approached Justice S. K. Shinde under the Criminal Appellate Jurisdiction of the Bombay High Court to seek pre-arrest protection under Section 14A of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, for allegedly committing a crime, registered with the Islampur Police Station, Sangli District. The appellants in the […]
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A School can initiate legal proceedings for the recovery of fees from defaulting parents/ students in strict adherence to the law: Justice A. M. Khanwilkar and Justice C. T. Ravikumar
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In the case of Progressive Schools Association v. The State of Rajasthan & Anr. (2021) C.A. 1736/ 2021, a miscellaneous application (No. 1399/ 2021), the appellant asked for a clarification in an earlier judgement given by the court on May 03, 2021, in the case of Progressive Schools Association v. The State of Rajasthan & […]
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Releasing an HIV+ sex worker poses danger to society due to risk of transmission by sexual intercourse: Judge S. U. Baghele, Dindoshi Sessions Court
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The father of the victim appeared before the Additional Sessions Judge S. U. Baghele (ASJ) at the Sessions Court at Dindoshi (Borivali Division) to challenge the order passed by Magistrate’s Court, Mazgaon, on August 20, 2021, to detain the victim for a period of two years under Section 17, Sub-Section 4 of the Immoral Traffic […]
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Uthra Murder Case: Husband sentenced to life imprisonment with Rs. 5 lakh fine for killing wife by inducing a snakebite from a Cobra: Additional Sessions Court, Kollam, Kerala
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On May 07, 2020, Uthra, the wife of Suraj, a housewife, was found dead at her house in Anchal, Kerala due to an alleged snakebite. Although the initial speculation was pointing towards it being a natural snakebite, the passage of time allowed the family of the deceased to believe that the snakebite was not natural. […]
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Sessions Court, Greater Mumbai rejects Bail Application of four men accused of not only procuring LSD Blots from the Dark Web using Bitcoin but also selling them.
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A Bail Application was moved by Mr. Kerry Kelvin Mendes, a 21-year-old from Mumbai, to the Sessions Court of Greater Bombay on September 27, 2021, in front of Judge M. G. Deshpande. The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) registered a case against Kerry under the following sections of the Narcotics Drug and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985: […]
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Custody of a child obtained fraudulently is illegal and invalid, to be declared ab-initio void: Justice U. U. Lalit
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In the case of Smriti Madan Kansagra v. Perry Kansagra (2021) C.A. 3559/ 2021, Justice U. U. Lalit of the Supreme Court heard the guardianship petition of the petitioner, the mother of a minor named Aditya Vikram Kansagra. The respondent is of Indian origin; however, his grandfather migrated to Kenya in 1935 since the family […]
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Prime Accused Kiran Kumar denied Bail for death of wife Vismaya: Justice M. R. Anitha Kerala High Court
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Justice M. R. Anitha of the Kerala High Court heard the bail petition of Mr. Kiran Kumar, the husband of Vismaya. Kumar is the prime suspect for the death of his wife, wherein he is charged under Sections 498A (Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) and 304B (Dowry Death) […]