A woman of about 60 was convicted of murder by the High Court as the only one of four accused, though the other three stayed acquitted. The Supreme Court has set that aside, holding that no lone conviction can stand without an independent Section 302 charge, and has restored her acquittal by the Sessions Court. […]
A Delhi court has granted Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh more time to respond to the appeal filed by four women wrestlers against his acquittal in a sexual harassment case, and has listed the matter next on October 28. New Delhi: A Delhi court at the Rouse Avenue Courts on Friday granted time to former Wrestling […]
The Supreme Court has held that a Section 100 CrPC violation does not by itself vitiate a seizure, but can weaken its evidentiary value when read with other doubts in the prosecution case. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday (October 8) set aside a Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) ruling that had reversed an […]
Dismissing the State’s appeal and confirming an SC/ST Act acquittal, the Gujarat High Court held that the prosecution had not proved that the alleged caste-based insult was uttered in a place within public view, and that the eyewitness and the medical evidence did not support its case. Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court has upheld the […]
Four women wrestlers have filed an appeal in a Delhi court challenging the acquittal of BJP leader and former Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, and co-accused Vinod Tomar, in a sexual harassment case. The appeal contends the trial court’s August 3 order was legally unsustainable and rested on ‘archaic and stereotypical assumptions’ about how victims of sexual assault are expected to behave.
