CJI Will Decide On Listing Of Arvind Kejriwal's Plea To Extend Interim Bail, Says Supreme Court Vacation Bench

Before the Supreme Court today (May 28) Senior Advocate Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi mentioned Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's application seeking an extension of interim bail granted to him in the Delhi Liquor Policy. Read More>>

Time-Barred Suit Must Be Dismissed Even If Plea Of Limitation Isn't Raised As Defence : Supreme Court

Reversing the findings of the High Court's Division Bench, the bench comprising Justices BR Gavai and Sandeep Mehta upon placing reliance on the case of V.M. Salgaocar and Bros. v. Board of Trustees of Port of Mormugao and Another, (2005) 4 SCC 613 observed that as per the mandate of Section 3 of the Limitation Act, the court has to dismiss any suit instituted after the prescribed period of limitation irrespective of the fact that limitation has not been set up as a defence. Read More>>

Punjab & Haryana High Court Acquits Gurmeet Ram Rahim In Ranjit Singh Murder Case

A CBI Court in Haryana's Panchkula in 2021 had sentenced him and four other accused to life imprisonment after they were convicted for hatching conspiracy to murder the former Dera manager Ranjit Singh in 2002. Read More>>

One Accomplice Cannot Corroborate Another: Kerala High Court

“There need not be independent confirmation of every material circumstance in the sense that the independent evidence of the accomplice should, in itself, be sufficient to sustain conviction. What is required is that there is some additional evidence rendering probable the evidence of the accomplice is true, and it is reasonably safe to act upon it to hold the accused has committed the crime,” said Justice Kauser Edappagath. Read More>>

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Revisional Jurisdiction Of Criminal Courts: Constricted?

Many a time, criminal courts pronounce orders which may have a patent defect or any error of law. In such a scenario, an aggrieved party looks for answers to such orders and this is why, the legislature in its wisdom, has prescribed a remedy to set right a defective order in the form of revision, under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC, hereinafter). Read More>>