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Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: M.A RASHID August 16, 2018 12:26 pm Change Font Size Legal experts demanded re-consideration of a recent Supreme Court Judgment whereby a two-Judge bench of the Court upheld the concurrent conviction and sentence of an accused in a case of dacoity with murder (S.396 IPC) based on a confession statement of accused produced by police to prove recovery of some incriminating articles under Section 27 of Indian Evidence Act. The Bench of Justice NV Ramana and Abdul Nazeer in Raju Manjhi Vs. State of Bihar dismissed the appeal against the Judgment of Patna High Court, whereby the High Court dismissed the appeal filed by the accused-appellant and upheld the order of conviction and sentence passed by the learned Additional District & Sessions Judge, Gaya. The Counsel for the Appellant submitted that the confessional statement of the appellant has no evidentiary value under law for the reason that it was extracted from the … [Read more...] about Conviction Based On Confession Statement Of Accused: Experts Demand Reconsideration Of Supreme Court Judgment

Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: Live Law July 3, 2018 7:17 pm Change Font Size “In 2017, we can see that while Article 19 freedoms were not that strongly prominent, Article 25 Right to Freedom of Religion protection was very strong”,  Jayna Kothari, Editor, Rights in Review & Director, Centre for Law & Policy Research. ‘Rights in Review’ is an annual review of the decisions of the Supreme Court of India on the protection of fundamental rights, prepared and published by Supreme Court Observer under the aegis of Centre for Law and Public Research. The first review was published in 2014. In 2017, the fourth edition of the Review was published, covering the decisions of the Supreme Court dealing with fundamental rights in the year 2017. In this interview with Live Law, Jayna Kothari, the Editor of Rights in Review 2017 edition and also the Director of Centre for Law and Policy Research, shares her insights and reflections … [Read more...] about Dissecting Supreme Court’s Protection of Fundamental Rights- In conversation with Jayna Kothari, Editor, Rights in Review

Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: Apoorva Mandhani June 22, 2018 10:35 pm Change Font Size The Supreme Court of the United States of America (SCOTUS) on Friday ruled with a 5-4 majority that the police generally need a search warrant to obtain broad access to data that shows the location of cellphone users, unless a warrant-less search is necessary in view of the“exigencies of the situation”. Authoring the majority judgment in Carpenter Vs United States, Chief Justice John Roberts was joined by liberal Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. They held that cellphone location records deserve enhanced protection under the Fourth Amendment which protects people from unlawful searches and seizures, opining that “individuals have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of their physical movements.” Conservative Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch authored … [Read more...] about Privacy Prevails: Police Generally Need Search Warrant To Obtain Cell Phone Location Info: US Supreme Court [Read Judgment]

The hearing in the string of writ petitions seeking an independent probe into the death of CBI special judge B. H. Loya resumed on Monday, with Senior Counsel Dushyant Dave submitting before the Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice D. Y. Chandrachud and Justice A. M. Khanwilkar a compilation of cases “where the apex court has rightly and proactively intervened from time to time”. “There is an order of February 23 in a matter concerning Shashi Tharoor (seeking the response of the Delhi Police on the Sunanda Pushkar death probe)…there is also the Kerala case where this court ordered a NIA investigation…I expect the same in the present matter…”, he advanced. “Facts must come on record so that allegations can be reverted to…if there are no affidavits, no one can be held accountable…”, he continued, quoting former Supreme Court judgements. “On November 27, 2017, two sitting judges of the Bombay High … [Read more...] about Judge Loya Case Hearing: Heated Exchanges Between Senior Lawyers Again In Supreme Court