An indigent legal-aid appellant was sent to jail only because he could not deposit Rs 10,000; the Rajasthan High Court has held that a convict’s inability to pay prosecution costs cannot revoke probation, and has set that order aside. Jodhpur: Probation granted to a convict has been restored by the Rajasthan High Court after a […]
Para 13(A) of the Supreme Court’s April 27 order is gone: trial courts no longer have to call for mitigation reports in every death-eligible case, though the requirement for High Courts stays. New Delhi: Accepting a clarification application by the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA), the Supreme Court has deleted its direction that trial courts […]
Anticipatory bail granted without hearing the POCSO victim is void ab initio and cannot stand, the Allahabad High Court has held, stressing that notice and a hearing to the victim or informant is a mandatory statutory requirement. Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has set aside an order of the Special Judge (POCSO Act), Bulandshahar, granting […]
At an MPSLSA programme for children with hearing and speech impairment in Jabalpur during Sign Language Week, Chief Justice Alpesh Y. Kogje urged them not to let an apparent limitation define their ability, while Justices Vivek Rusia and Vivek Agarwal spoke on sign-language interpreters, early intervention and skill development.
Justice Milind N. Jadhav of the Bombay High Court has granted eight months’ interim bail to Pooja Lovepreet Lal, accused by the DRI of carrying 6 kg of cocaine, on humanitarian grounds, noting that her eight-month-old daughter, housed with her in prison, has had respiratory illness requiring repeated hospital care, while stressing that Section 37 NDPS is not diluted and the order is not on merits.
