HIGH COURT APRIL 2025 WEEKLY ROUNDUP | Taman Singh Sonwani’s Bail; Murshidabad Violence; Influencers’ Free Speech; Chandola Lake Demolition; and more
A quick legal roundup to cover important stories from all High Courts this week.
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CRIMINAL LAW ROUNDUP: A quick recap of the top criminal cases from April 2025
Covering all the important criminal cases across various High Courts, this roundup provides a quick summary of cases such as Asaram Bapu’s Bail, ₹37.29 Cr ITC fraud case, Raj Thackeray’s stone pelting case, Hathras Gangrape and Murder Case, KIIT Student’s Death, and much more.
Madras HC directs for exhumation and re-postmortem of deceased after wife alleges death by custodial torture
Madras High Court viewed that the suspicion of the petitioner that her husband died of custodial torture is reasonable and cannot be brushed aside easily.
HIGH COURT MAY 2024 WEEKLY ROUNDUP | Stories on Delhi serial bomb blasts; Karnataka State Legislative Elections 2023; Childbirth after sterilization; and more
A quick legal roundup to cover important stories from all High Courts this week.
Patna HC orders Department of Police to pay Rs 2 lakh compensation to a man subjected to custodial violence and police atrocity
Police excesses and maltreatment of detainees/undertrial prisoners or suspects, tarnishes the image of any civilised nation, and encourages the men in ‘Khaki’ to consider themselves to be above the law and sometimes even to become law unto themselves.
“Total negligence and lapse on part of the jail authorities in providing medical treatment”; Bombay High Court awards compensation to family for death in custody
Bombay High Court directed the State of Maharashtra to pay compensation of Rs 10 lakhs to the petitioners and left the State at liberty to recover the same from officers at fault.
Custodial Violence in Tihar Jail | Remedial action to be taken so that unscrupulous officers at Jail do not take advantage of knowledge of non-working of CCTVs & get away by doing any illegal act
Delhi High Court: While addressing a matter of custodial violence in Tihar Jail, Mukta Gupta, J., stated that: Walls of prison, howsoever
Police Officers beat a man to death 20 years before offence under S. 324 IPC became non-compoundable. SC refuses to compound such “offence against humanity”
“When the protector of people and society himself instead of protecting the people adopts brutality and inhumanly beat the person who comes to the police station, it is a matter of great public concern.”