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Termination of pregnancy cases are urgent. Why is time being wasted in taking permissions from Courts?: MP HC allows 10-week pregnant minor rape victim’s plea

The Court remarked that it was repeatedly coming across such matters where, instead of proceeding with the termination of pregnancy, the authorities were shifting their burden to one another, leading to matters travelling up to the Courts seeking permission to carry out the procedure.

Case Briefs High Courts

Accused can’t said to be “brutal” though “barbaric”; MP High Court commutes death sentence to 25 yrs imprisonment in 4-yr-old minor rape case

While the crime was heinous and against a child, the Court noted that although the act was “barbaric”, it could not be termed “brutal” in the sense that it required capital punishment.

Case Briefs High Courts

‘Inconsequential discrepancies in evidence do not dispel credibility of prosecution case’: Sikkim HC upholds conviction order of POCSO convict

Sikkim High Court opined that the prosecution’s case was established beyond all reasonable doubt following which they found no reason to differ from the findings of the Trial Court

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Supreme Court sets aside Madhya Pradesh HC’s “utterly incomprehensible” judgment discharging accused in a minor’s rape case for delay in filing FIR

“The facts of this litigation are quite heart-breaking and at the same time, more disturbing is the utterly incomprehensible impugned judgment of the High Court discharging the accused of the offence of rape essentially on the ground of delay in the registration of the FIR.”