The Patna High Court acquitted a man sentenced to life for the 2005 murder of a boy in Khagaria, holding that the FIR was lodged after the body was found and named no one, the claimed eyewitnesses were examined after delays of 12 days to nearly two months, and the Investigating Officer was never examined.
Justice Soni Shrivastava of the Patna High Court has quashed a Magistrate’s 2022 cognizance order and the entire prosecution of two members of the Jhunjhunwala family under Sections 448, 341, 323 and 506 of the IPC, holding that the FIR was vague, belated, attended with mala fide and lodged amid a dispute over ancestral property.
The Delhi High Court has granted anticipatory bail to an elderly man accused by his daughter-in-law of sexual misconduct and other offences in a matrimonial FIR, citing the four-year delay in the complaint, the absence of specific dates, and the lack of any real need for custodial interrogation, while cautioning that its observations are only for bail.
Dr. Sandip Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Medical College, was arrested for alleged corruption and financial misconduct. Facing public outrage over a doctor’s rape and murder at the hospital, he stepped down but was appointed as principal of another college by the West Bengal government. The case has been transferred to the CBI.
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