The Gujarat High Court granted anticipatory bail to five relatives accused of supporting and instigating a husband to pronounce talaq, noting their limited alleged role, absence of criminal antecedents and assurance of cooperation with the investigation.
The Gujarat High Court has quashed an FIR under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 against a man arraigned as a customer in a brothel raid, holding that the offences under Sections 3, 5, 7 and 9 of the Act are directed at brothel-keepers, procurers and those in a position of authority who abet prostitution, and cannot be invoked against a customer. The Court also held that no cognizance of the Section 188 IPC offence could be taken absent a complaint under Section 195 CrPC.
The Delhi High Court has stayed a POCSO court’s order directing an FIR against a group of police officers, and framed a question for detailed hearing: where a Special Judge under a special statute finds no offence under that statute is prima facie made out, should the application under Section 175(3) BNSS be transmitted to the jurisdictional Magistrate rather than decided by the Special Judge? The competing factual accounts are untested; the Court expressed no view on the merits.
A Gurugram court on September 18 remanded Kalyan Bainsla, accused of hitting a woman biker with his vehicle, and a co-accused to 14 days’ judicial custody after their police custody ended. The case, registered by the Sector 55/56 police station, invokes provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita including attempt to murder, rash driving, stalking and insulting a woman’s modesty. The allegations are untested.
A student and member of the Cockroach Janata Party has moved the Allahabad High Court to quash an FIR registered against him after he recorded and shared a video showing the condition of a government primary school in Farrukhabad. He argues the FIR discloses none of the ingredients of the offences invoked, that recording a public school’s condition is a matter of legitimate public concern protected by Article 19(1)(a), and that its continuation would be an abuse of process. The allegations are untested.
The Patna High Court has quashed, against the petitioner, a robbery FIR registered at Dhanarua police station, holding it to be an impermissible second FIR over the same transaction, the taking of a Tata Indica and mobile phones, that had already been the subject of an earlier case at Deepnagar. Applying the T.T. Antony ‘test of sameness’, Justice Chandra Shekhar Jha held that continuing the later case would be an abuse of the process of the court.
A Gurugram court has remanded Kalyan Bainsla, the man accused of hitting a woman motorcyclist with his car on Golf Course Road, and his cousin, to two days’ police custody. The FIR, registered suo motu after the complainant’s video went viral, invokes attempt to murder, rash driving and endangerment, with stalking and modesty-related sections mentioned in the remand application. The allegations are untested.
Gurugram Police have arrested the car driver accused of hitting a woman motorcyclist on Golf Course Road, and added charges of attempt to murder, stalking and outraging modesty under the BNS after examining camera footage. The complainant alleges she was chased and rammed; the accused’s family calls it an accident. The allegations are untested and the investigation is continuing.
YouTuber Ajeet Bharti sought anticipatory bail at Delhi’s Patiala House Court in an SC/ST Act FIR over a video; the court said any police notice must be placed before it before deciding. Hearing on August 31. New Delhi: A Delhi court has, while hearing an anticipatory bail plea by YouTuber and commentator Ajeet Bharti in […]
