-The Hindu Jammu: Responding to the public pressure, an Army court on Saturday decided to shift its centre of recording the statements of witnesses in the Pathribal carnage from Nagrota in Jammu to Awantipore in Kashmir valley. The court is holding trial on a chargesheet as the CBI has held a group of the Army officials guilty of killing five civilians in a fake encounter in Anantnag district in March 2000. Even...
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Suryanelli girl’s plea to arraign Kurien rejected
-The Hindu KOCHI/ KATTAPPANA: The Suryanelli rape victim is expected to move higher Courts to get P.J. Kurien, Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, arraigned as an accused in the case. Sources close to the victim said that her decision was taken after the Peerumade Judicial First Class Magistrate Court rejected her private complaint on Saturday. The girl had pleaded for a court order instructing the police to register a fresh case...
More »Every Rape Case Should be Tried In-Camera: Police to HC
-Outlook The Delhi Police today opposed the media plea seeking access to the trial in the December 16 gang rape case telling the High Court that the enquiry and trial in every rape case should be held in-camera. Appearing for the police before Justice Rajiv Shakdher, Special Public Prosecutor Dayan Krishnan countered the claim of petitioners that this case is "exceptional" and the media has an independent right derived from the Constitution. "The...
More »Let fast track Courts try crimes against SCs, STs: NAC -Smita Gupta
-The Hindu ‘Wilful negligence’ by public servants should be defined better in 24-year-old law Dedicated fast track Courts to try offences under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act should be set up, the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council recommended on Tuesday, even as it suggested that “wilful negligence” by public servants be better defined in the 24-year-old law. The NAC would like the Rules to the Act amended to...
More »Sibal takes on judges, says let the court allocate spectrum, explain its orders -Maneesh Chhibber
-The Indian Express On a day when the UPA government’s renewed effort to attract bids from telecom companies for the ensuing auction of 1,800 Mhz and 900 Mhz spectrum drew a blank, Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology Kapil Sibal said that “if the court were to take upon itself the responsibility of allocating spectrum in the public interest, in whichever manner it deems fit, it may serve us better”. With...
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