Shruti Kakkar
Special Legal Correspondent at The New Indian Express
Principal correspondent @httweets | ✉️[email protected] | previously @LiveLawIndia @NewIndianXpress/ @TheMornStandard
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2 weeks ago |
htsyndication.com | Shruti Kakkar
India, June 14 -- The Delhi High Court has held the State vicariously liable for unnatural deaths in judicial custody, asserting that it has a constitutional obligation to ensure the safety and dignity of incarcerated individuals. The verdict came on Thursday from justice Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar in a case involving the custodial death of a Tihar Jail inmate, Javed, just two days before he was to be released in 2013.
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2 weeks ago |
hindustantimes.com | Shruti Kakkar
The Delhi High Court has held the State vicariously liable for unnatural deaths in judicial custody, asserting that it has a constitutional obligation to ensure the safety and dignity of incarcerated individuals. The verdict came on Thursday from justice Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar in a case involving the custodial death of a Tihar Jail inmate, Javed, just two days before he was to be released in 2013.
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2 weeks ago |
hindustantimes.com | Shruti Kakkar
The Delhi high court on Thursday denied bail to Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah, who has been jailed in connection with a terror funding case since 2019. “The present appeal is dismissed,” said a bench of justices Navin Chawla and Shailender Kaur, pronouncing the operative part of the order. Shah moved the court against a Delhi court’s July 2023 order denying him bail.
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2 weeks ago |
htsyndication.com | Shruti Kakkar
India, June 12 -- The Delhi high court on Wednesday suggested that the Delhi government reconstitute the sentence review board (SRB), which handles premature release pleas of life convicts, observing that the board was mechanically rejecting applications without meaningful review.
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2 weeks ago |
hindustantimes.com | Shruti Kakkar
The Delhi high court on Wednesday suggested that the Delhi government reconstitute the sentence review board (SRB), which handles premature release pleas of life convicts, observing that the board was mechanically rejecting applications without meaningful review.
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Woman’s gender can neither be the basis for her withdrawing any rape allegations nor should be used to question the authenticity of her accusation, the Del HC has held. https://t.co/JfhLxuu4Nd