Seven FIRs over one incident, and a news report reposted on X: the Karnataka High Court has issued six guidelines against mechanical arrests and repeat FIRs over social media posts, saying that registration of a crime must not automatically lead to arrest, and has quashed the Puttur case against the account’s administrator. Bengaluru: Crime No. […]
Married in January 2025, living apart from March 2025, FIR in May 2026: the Madhya Pradesh High Court has refused to quash the dowry cruelty FIR, holding that the 14-month delay does not by itself make the wife’s complaint a counterblast. Jabalpur: Dismissing a petition by a husband and his parents to quash a dowry […]
A fresh petition seeking the registration of an FIR against former judge Yashwant Varma over the cash-at-home controversy was mentioned before Chief Justice of India Surya Kant for urgent listing, the petitioners contending that the Registry was refusing to list it. The CJI did not expressly indicate anything on listing. Earlier pleas seeking an FIR and a CBI probe have been dismissed by the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court respectively.
The Patna High Court has acquitted five men convicted of a 1989 murder and dacoity, holding that the prosecution suppressed the genesis of the case by withholding an earlier written complaint that ought to have been treated as the FIR, and instead placing on record a later statement, which attracted an adverse inference and the bar under Section 162 CrPC. Coupled with material discrepancies between the two eye-witnesses, this cast a thick cloud of suspicion on the prosecution case.
