Bribery conviction set aside: the Supreme Court cleared a former Assistant in the Saraikela District Education Office who had already served his four-year sentence, holding that demand and acceptance of the Rs 5,000 bribe were never proved.
Holding that a missing ticket cannot by itself defeat a claim for railway compensation, the Supreme Court has restored a Rs 8 lakh award to the parents of a man who died after falling from a train near Ahmedabad, setting aside the Gujarat High Court’s reversal. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has held that the […]
A Bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Atul S. Chandurkar has set aside the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s refusal of regular bail to Kanha @ Kanhaiya Singh in a POCSO and SC/ST Act case, holding that courts must not impose a judge’s views on morality in bail matters, and directing his release on bail after over a year in custody, subject to his custody in a connected conviction appeal.
A Special Bench of Justice Manoj Misra and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan has listed the CAPF officers’ contempt case with the challenge to the CAPF Act on October 15, to examine whether the 2025 judgment’s directions stand independent of the new law, after ASG Aishwarya Bhati apologised for seeking a combined listing before the CJI without informing the petitioners.
The Supreme Court has acquitted a Patwari, since deceased, in a Prevention of Corruption Act bribe-trap case, holding that proof of both the demand and the acceptance of illegal gratification is a sine qua non for conviction under Sections 7 and 13 of the Act. With the complainant having died before deposing and the shadow witness turning hostile, no witness saw the demand or the handing-over of the money, and the recovery of tainted currency alone could not sustain the conviction.