The Supreme Court has upheld the conviction & life-term imprisonment of four in a murder case of a coolie while stating that findings of trial court leading to acquittal are perverse and erroneous, it is always open for appellate court to reverse such findings on reappreciation of evidence on record.
The bench while referring High Court's judgement held that there is no prohibition under the Special Marriage Act for solemnization of the marriage between an Indian citizen and a foreign citizen.
A Lucknow Special Court has acquitted former Union Minister and BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand on charges of sexually harassing a law student, after all witnesses in the case turned hostile.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's lawyer, senior advocate Vikas Pahwa dismissed the prosecution claim about the politician's extra-martial affair as nothing more than "imagination".
The Supreme Court five-judge Constitution Bench has reserved its judgment in petitions challenging the Maharashtra Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Act 2018 (SEBC act).