Protest Petition News Today

The Supreme Court held that if the Magistrate takes cognizance of the offence and issues summons to an accused by recording satisfaction based on the additional evidence produced by way of a protest...

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - Curtailment of 15 days of police custody by any extraneous circumstances, act of God, an order of Court not being the handy work of...

The Telangana High Court has held that a Magistrate cannot take cognizance against those accused, against whom a chargesheet is not filed, merely based on a note affixed by the Superintendent of...

Judicial Magistrate cannot entertain a protest petition against an order taking cognisance of a final report, held the Supreme Court in a recent judgment.In this case, a Chief Judicial Magistrate took...

15 days police custody meant to be applied to the entire period of investigation as a whole : Supreme Court doubts 1992 precedent. V. Senthil Balaji v. State, 2023 LiveLaw (SC) 611 : 2023 INSC 677A...

Judgment/OrdersMotor Accident Claims - Social Status Of Deceased To Be Considered If Theres No Definite Proof Of Income: Supreme CourtCase title: Kubrabibi v. Oriental InsuranceCitation: 2023 LiveLaw...

SUBJECT WISE INDEXAbkari ActPerson receiving information of crime or detecting the occurrence can investigate it. Sathyan v. State of Kerala, 2023 LiveLaw (SC) 627 : 2023 INSC 703Abortion Woman alone...

Citations: 2023 LiveLaw (SC) 680 To 2023 LiveLaw (SC) 736SUBJECT WISE INDEXAbortion Woman alone has the right over her body; shes the ultimate decision maker on abortion. XYZ v. State of Gujarat,...

Judgment/OrdersMotor Accident Claims - Social Status Of Deceased To Be Considered If Theres No Definite Proof Of Income: Supreme CourtCase title: Kubrabibi v. Oriental InsuranceCitation: 2023 LiveLaw...

The Supreme Court observed that on the receipt of final report, Magistrate can exercise his discretion to treat protest petition as a complaint case.The bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Dipankar...