Delay in FIR Archives

Sikk HC | Trial Courts should exhibit sensitivity to the plight of a child victim but they cannot go overboard and stonewall steps that are mandatory to be complied with when analysing and interpreting evidence given by witnesses; Sentence of rape accused modified

Sikkim High Court: The Division Bench of Meenakshi Madan Rai and Bhaskar Rai Pradhan, JJ. partly allowed an appeal which was filed

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Raped in matrimonial home; disbelieved; beaten up! SC believes woman’s sole testimony; finds act of female members of the family “unfortunate”

“Being women at least the sister-in-law and mother-in-law ought to have supported the prosecutrix, rather than beating her and not believing the prosecutrix.”

Case Briefs Supreme Court

1991 Balwant Singh Multani disappearance| SC grants anticipatory bail to Punjab’s former DGP Sumedh Singh Saini in a fresh FIR alleging murder

Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of Ashok Bhushan, R. Subhash Reddy and MR Shah*, JJ has granted anticipatory bail to Punjab’s former

Case Briefs High Courts

MP HC | Sole reason of delay in lodging FIR, by itself, is not a ground to quash the FIR

Madhya Pradesh High Court: Rajeev Kumaar Dubey, J., addressed a petition filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for