A recent case in Haryana confirms that abetment to suicide is a very dubious section. In many cases, causes of suicide are psychological and societal and should be dealt with accordingly and legal tests should be used before prosecution.
SC to consider the case of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker violating the three-month deadline in deciding the disqualification of the 22 defected MLA's from Congress to BJP, even after the matter becomes infructuous.
By-polls to the 28 assembly constituencies in Madhya Pradesh were held today. Two incidents of violence were reported, overall the polls were conducted peacefully.
Fugitive leader of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), Bimal Gurung, yesterday appeared in public for the first time in three years and announced his severing of ties with the BJP-led NDA and offered his full support to the Trinamool Congress.
Seriousness of the crime itself can not be taken as a factor to uphold the conviction unless the conscience of the court is satisfied, said the Kerala High Court while setting aside the life imprisonment sentence given to five BJP party workers involved in murder of two persons out of a political feud.
The Bankipur assembly constituency of Patna Sahib, Bihar, goes to the polls in the second phase of elections to be held on November 3. And the Congress is likely to field Shatrughan Sinha’s son Luv as its candidate.
The Supreme Court today put off till after the Dusshera holidays the hearing of an appeal filed against the verdict of the Jharkhand High Court, which had dismissed a plea filed by BJP leader Pradeep Sonthalia challenging the election of Congress member Dhiraj Sahu as Rajya Sabha MP from the state.
The petitioner submitted that the issue of the sanction comes after taking cognizance and not at the registration of FIR stage, according to Section 196 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.