A Delhi court sentenced Bihar BJP MLA Raju Kumar Singh to four years’ simple imprisonment and imposed a Rs 25 lakh fine in the 2018 celebratory firing case that killed a woman. He was also awarded two months’ imprisonment under the Arms Act for licence violations.
The Allahabad High Court quashed money laundering proceedings against Tulsiani Construction and its directors, holding that civil and commercial disputes cannot be converted into criminal prosecutions under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The Court also set aside the ED’s summoning and attachment actions.
Several high-profile murder investigations involving spouses or romantic partners, including the Sonam Raghuvanshi and Muskan Rastogi cases, have sparked nationwide debate. While attracting intense media attention, each prosecution must ultimately be decided solely on legally admissible evidence presented before the courts.
The Supreme Court sought Sonam Raghuvanshi’s response to Meghalaya’s plea seeking cancellation of her bail in the alleged honeymoon murder case. The State challenged bail orders passed by the trial court and High Court, with the matter now listed for hearing on July 9.
The Patna High Court upheld the conviction of a retired judicial officer and a practising advocate in a 2005 assault case linked to a land dispute. While affirming their guilt, the Court reduced the sentence to the imprisonment already undergone by the convicted appellants.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear Meghalaya’s plea challenging bail granted to Sonam Raghuvanshi, accused of murdering her husband Raja Raghuvanshi during their honeymoon. The State argued she was likely to abscond, urging the Court to reconsider the bail order.
The Supreme Court held that an accused cannot claim default bail merely because a copy of the chargesheet was not supplied. It also ruled that failure to file additional chargesheet copies under Section 193(8) of the BNSS does not invalidate the chargesheet.
The Karnataka High Court questioned Darshan Srinivas’s claim that the Kannada film BOSS could affect the fairness of his Renukaswamy murder trial. Justice Pradeep Singh Yerur observed that the concern should be possible impact on witnesses and proceedings, not whether judges could be influenced.
A Pune court sentenced a 65-year-old man to death for the rape and murder of a three-year-old girl in Nasrapur village, calling it a crime that “shocks even the conscience of society.” The court held the case fell within the “rarest of rare” category after convicting him of kidnapping, molestation, rape, and murder.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court reduced a man’s conviction for killing his pregnant wife, ruling that the act occurred during grave and sudden provocation. The Court changed the offence from Section 304 Part I IPC to Part II and reduced the sentence to seven years.
