Section 27 of the Evidence Act clearly speaks of information received from a person Accused of any offence while in the custody of the police leading to a discovery of a fact being enabled of proof in ...

Ordinarily no routine direction for second statement under Section 183 B.N.S.S. can be given but under exceptional circumstances. High Court in exercise of it’s extraordinary ju ...

SURVIVING PARTNER IN A MUTUAL SUICIDE PACT IS LEGALLY CULPABLE. 117. Notwithstanding the culpability of the act of purchasing pesticide, the Accused’s participation in a suicide ...

This note sets out: (i) the BNSS statutory authority to collect biological samples, (ii) the Supreme Court’s uniform ...

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There is no psychiatric evaluation, no IQ assessment, no description of the degree of intellectual disability, and no medical board report. Before recording the prosecutrix’s evidence, the then ...

(a) It is declared that the Petitioner was not produced before the nearest Magistrate within 24 hours, thereby making his arrest illegal. (b) Consequently, the Petitioner shall be released on bail on ...

The Court is very much conscious of the fact that the merits of the proposed amendment cannot be looked into. The fact, however, remains that no fruitful purpose would be served by granting ...

16. Pending applications, if any, also stand disposed of.

under Article 142 of the Constitution of India.

At its core, the judgment does two things for the legal system: first, it gives a structured, mens rea–centric interpretation of Section 15 of the POCSO Act (post-2019 amendment) as creating three ...