The Patna High Court quashed the discharge refusal and charge-framing orders against a former Anchal Adhikari of Keoti, holding that cognizance was taken without the previous sanction Section 197 CrPC requires for official acts.
The Patna High Court has set aside a Bhojpur Magistrate’s Section 366A cognizance order against the parents and maternal uncle of a man accused of taking away a 15-year-old schoolgirl, noting that the girl did not support the kidnapping allegation before a Magistrate and that the police had not sent the three up for trial. […]
Answering five questions referred by the Supreme Court, the Patna High Court has examined the remission and premature-release regime under the Bihar Prison Manual, 2012 and issued seventeen recommendations to make it transparent, time-bound and fair. It held the rules are not ‘absolutely selective’, but directed that every prisoner be given a duplicate History Ticket showing remission earned or forfeited, that no remission be seized without a hearing and reasons, and that an appeal and grievance mechanism be created, with safeguards for illiterate prisoners.
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.
The Patna High Court today set aside the convictions of former Bihar MLA Anant Kumar Singh in two cases, resulting in his imminent release from prison. The court ruled that the prosecution failed to prove his involvement in the seized weapons. This decision has raised questions about political motivations and alliances in Bihar, drawing criticism from the opposition.
