HIGH COURT MAY 2024 WEEKLY ROUNDUP | Stories on Delhi serial bomb blasts; Karnataka State Legislative Elections 2023; Childbirth after sterilization; and more
A quick legal roundup to cover important stories from all High Courts this week.
Police atrocity
Patna HC orders Department of Police to pay Rs 2 lakh compensation to a man subjected to custodial violence and police atrocity
Police excesses and maltreatment of detainees/undertrial prisoners or suspects, tarnishes the image of any civilised nation, and encourages the men in ‘Khaki’ to consider themselves to be above the law and sometimes even to become law unto themselves.
[Police Atrocity Case] Calcutta High Court orders ₹2 lakh compensation to atone laches in allegedly ‘falsely implicated’ case
“The prime concern and endeavour of law should be to secure justice on the basis of truth, which ought to be unearthed through a committed and competent investigating agency.” observes the Court.
Punjab gangster Jai Pal Singh Bhullar gets killed in alleged police encounter in Kolkata; SC directs P&H HC to re-consider plea for second post-mortem
Supreme Court: The Division (Vacation) Bench of Indira Banerjee and M.R. Shah, JJ., directed the High Court of Punjab and Haryana to
Was ‘Third degree’ torture used against YSRC MP K. Raghurama Krishnam Raju? Supreme Court directs fresh medical examination
Supreme Court: The vacation bench of Vineet Saran and BR Gavai, JJ has directed that YSRC MP K. Raghurama Krishnam Raju be