Supreme Court Judgement

Allahabad High Court while hearing an application under section 482 filed by Sukhbir Singh set aside an order of the magistrate dismissing the discharge application filed by an accused booked under Section 306 IPC.

We have to part company with the precedents of the British-Indian period tying our non-statutory area of law to vintage English Law christening it “justice, equity and good conscience”. After all, conscience is the finer texture of norms woven from the ethos and lifestyle of a community and since British and Indian ways of life vary so much that the validity of an Anglo-philic bias in Bharat’s justice, equity and good conscience is questionable today,

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to set aside the conviction and order of life imprisonment of one 72-year-old man while stating that recovery of bloodstained lathi and bloodstained clothes of the appellant on his confession

The Karnataka High Court sought the response of the Central government in a petition challenging the validity of Section 2(c)(i) of the Contempt of Courts Act.