The Kerala High Court has dismissed a plea by the accused in the Shuhaib murder case to transfer the trial out of the Additional Sessions Court-III, Thalassery, while directing the trial court to ensure that both sides get a full and effective opportunity to participate, including cross-examination of witnesses.
A Gurugram court has remanded Kalyan Bainsla, the man accused of hitting a woman motorcyclist with his car on Golf Course Road, and his cousin, to two days’ police custody. The FIR, registered suo motu after the complainant’s video went viral, invokes attempt to murder, rash driving and endangerment, with stalking and modesty-related sections mentioned in the remand application. The allegations are untested.
A Kanpur pharmaceutical trader was stabbed to death on September 5. Three people have been arrested, and one of them has told police he carried out the killing at the instance of a co-accused, an allegation she denies. Police have sought custody remand of two of the accused and say the investigation is continuing. No charge has been established and the allegations remain untested.
Noting that the accused seen in the video and linked to DNA evidence had already been granted bail, and that the applicant had spent two and a half years in custody with only seven of thirty-one witnesses examined, the Delhi High Court held that his case prima facie stood on a better footing and granted bail despite his having been declared a proclaimed offender.
The Ketan Agarwal murder case has taken a dramatic turn as Advocate Ashutosh Srivastava, claiming to represent accused Siya Goyal, served a Rs.10 crore defamation notice to her brother Sahil Goyal over alleged defamatory remarks. The dispute follows Ketan Agarwal’s death after falling into a gorge at Lohagad Fort near Pune on June 18.
