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Right to Information| Chargesheets and final reports not equivalent to FIRs; can’t be published on State Websites for public access: Supreme Court

The prayer seeking free public access to chargesheets and final reports was made relying on ruling in Youth Bar Association of India v. Union of India, (2016) 9 SCC 473, wherein the Supreme Court had directed copies of FIRs to be published within 24 hours of their registration on the police websites or on the websites of the State Governments.

Case Briefs District Court

Call records alone cannot be pressed into service for framing charges; Court discharges accused of Organized Crime Syndicate under MCOC Act holding CDRs not sufficient evidence

Patiala House Courts (New Delhi): While discharging the accused from alleged offences under Sections 3 and 4 of MCOC Act, Sh. Parveen

Case Briefs High Courts

Bom HC | Quashing of FIRs against Tablighi Jamaat foreign nationals: Justice Sewlikar gives reasoning for the judgment; Differs on observations of malice in State action

Bombay High Court: M.G. Sewlikar, J., in reference to the judgment pronounced by this Court on 21-08-2020, with regard to the quashing of

Case Briefs High Courts

Bom HC “smells malice” in State action against Tablighi Jamaat foreign nationals; Quashes all FIRs; Makes scathing observations against “media propaganda”

Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of T.V. Nalawade and M.G. Sewlikar, JJ. has quashed all FIRs filed against the foreign nationals

Case Briefs High Courts

Arnab Goswami Case | Bom HC | “Petitioner was trying to find out which forces were trying to derail lockdown”: Court suspends proceedings in FIR against Arnab Goswami

Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of Ujjal Bhuyan and Riyaz I. Chagla, JJ. while observing the matter in regard to quashing of