Section 37 News Today

The Kerala High Court was considering whether an executing court while enforcing an International arbitral award could direct payment of interest on the amount awarded from the date of the award till...

The High Court said that prolonged incarceration militates against Article 21 of the Constitution and that conditional liberty must override the statutory embargo under Section 37, NDPS Act.

In a recent judgement denying bail to two accused under the NDPS Act, the Kerala High Court clarified that “Section 37 of the NDPS Act does not lay down any stipulation that the accused in entitled to...

The Gauhati High Court recently granted bail to an accused arrested for an offence under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act) considering that there was no plausible...

Observing that the right to a speedy trial had been violated, the Punjab & Haryana High Court granted bail to a man who had been in custody for over 3 years, accused of being in possession of...

The Court ruled that bail can be granted in NDPS cases if there is undue delay in trial.

The court said that a plain and literal interpretation of the conditions under Section 37 would effectively exclude grant of bail altogether.

The Court said that the Constitutional guarantee of expeditious trial cannot be diluted by applying the rigors of Section 37 of the NDPS Act in perpetuity.

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Section 377A, a decades-old law criminalising gay sex, has officially been struck from the books, as President Halimah Yacob had assented on Dec 27 to the Bill that proposed the repeal.

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