The Karnataka High Court has refused to quash a criminal case against a 22-year-old accused of sending a bomb threat email to the Bengaluru Police Commissioner, holding that a disputed internet outage defence is a matter for trial.
Reporting to the police every day and furnishing two sureties are the terms of the conditional bail the Madras High Court has granted to a man accused of using AI videos of CM Vijay to collect money from the public. Chennai: The investigation is complete, the chargesheet is ready and the phone allegedly used has […]
Holding that the offence of sexual intercourse on a false promise of marriage under Section 69 BNS cannot be attracted against a woman accused on the allegations made, the Karnataka High Court has quashed that charge against a woman named as the second accused in an FIR, while allowing the investigation into the remaining allegations […]
A Mumbai magistrate court has ordered the discharge of Vishal Jha in the Bulli Bai case, holding that merely following the Bulli Bai app is not an offence and that nothing further in the charge-sheet shows his role. Mumbai: A Bandra court has discharged Vishal Jha, an accused in the Bulli Bai case, holding that […]
The Bombay High Court at Nagpur has dismissed Nikhil Madhukar Thepale’s appeal against refusal of anticipatory bail in a case under the BNS, the IT Act and the SC/ST Act, holding that circulation of objectionable videos and photographs of the complainant on WhatsApp is prima facie within public view and that the bar under Section 18 of the SC/ST Act applies, and noting that he has remained absconding. The allegations are untested.
The Supreme Court has granted bail to a 30-year-old security guard accused over allegedly obscene and derogatory Facebook posts about Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s wife and MLA Kalpana Soren, noting that he has been in custody for over a year, that the maximum sentence is three years and that custodial interrogation is not required.
