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'Would Kasab have got bail too?' Centre’s explosive question to Supreme Court during heated UAPA debateThe Centre questioned the Supreme Court of India over whether prolonged delays in trials should automatically result in bail for those accu...
Top cases on the United States Supreme Court's docketThe U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing significant cases. These cases cover voting rights, presidential authority, immigration policies, and g...
Judge releases note that cellmate says he found after Jeffrey Epstein's suspected suicide tryA note found by Jeffrey Epstein's former cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, after Epstein's first suspected suicide attempt has been released....
2006 Malegaon blasts case reached dead end: High Court; raps NIA for overlooking evidenceThe Bombay High Court has discharged four individuals in the 2006 Malegaon blasts case. The court found insufficient evidence to proceed wi...
Incarceration without trial is punishment, says SC; grants bail to accused in jail for 2 yearsThe Supreme Court granted bail to a Punjab man after two years in jail without trial, emphasizing that prolonged incarceration without conv...
Excise policy case: Delhi HC seeks Kejriwal, Sisodia response on ED plea to expunge remarksThe Delhi High Court has asked Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, and 21 others to respond to the Enforcement Directorate's plea to expunge "...
Prolonged pretrial incarceration has effect of converting detention into punishment: SCThe Supreme Court has granted bail to Arvind Dham, former Amtek Group chairperson, in a major bank fraud case. The court emphasized that pr...
Supreme Court grants bail to Kapil, Dheeraj Wadhawan in ₹34,000-crore DHFL bank fraud caseThe Supreme Court has granted bail to Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhawan in a massive bank fraud case. The court cited the slow pace of proceedings...
Elgar case: Bombay HC grants bail to ex-DU professor Hany BabuThe Bombay High Court has granted bail to former Delhi University professor Hany Babu. He was arrested over five years ago in connection wi...
Bombay HC grants bail to Dawood Ibrahim syndicate's gangsterThe Bombay High Court granted bail to Tariq Parveen, an alleged member of Dawood Ibrahim's syndicate, citing prolonged incarceration withou...
Detaining prisoner without trial amounts to pre-trial punishment; bail is rule, says HCThe Bombay High Court stresses that bail is a norm. Refusal is an exception. Prolonged detention without trial equates to pre-trial punishm...
Money laundering case: Wadhwan brothers secure bail; HC cites long incarceration, distant trialThe Bombay High Court granted bail to DHFL promoters Dheeraj and Kapil Wadhwan in the 2020 Yes Bank money laundering case due to their long...
Constitutional courts can't allow PMLA provisions to become tools in hands of ED: Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court has ruled that constitutional courts must prevent the misuse of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act by the Enforcement...
ED faces SC ire for keeping accused in custody without trial in money laundering casesThe top court was hearing the default bail plea of Prem Prakash, an alleged associate of former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren. Prak...
Delhi HC grants bail to CA in Shakti Bhog money laundering caseThe judge stated that the trial cannot proceed or charges cannot be framed till the investigation comes to an end and the applicant cannot ...
Can't allow incarceration for long without trial: SC in 2018 narcotics seizure caseThe top court allowed the appeal filed by the accused against the November 2021 order of the Calcutta High Court which had denied them bail...
Nearly 80 pc prisoners are undertrials, need to question procedures: CJI"We need a holistic plan of action to increase the efficiency of the administration of the criminal justice system," the CJI said at the in...