RANCHI, India, June 25 -- Jharkhand High Court issued the following order on May 27: 1. The petitioner is accused for the offence punishable under Section 305 B.N.S., 2023. 2. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case and has not committed any offence as alleged in the F.I.R. The brother of the petitioner (the pairvikar of this case) is owner of shop, namely Alka Jewellers, Chutia, Ranchi. The petitioner has been made scapeg...
GANGTOK, India, June 25 -- Sikkim High Court issued the following judgment/order on June 19: 1. The Prosecution case commenced with the lodging of the FIR (Exbt P-1/PW-1) by PW-1, the uncle of the victim, alleging that on 07-02-2022, PW-2, his niece, the victim had gone for tuition. She called him up that evening from her friend's mobile to inform him that she would sleep over at her friend's house and return the next morning. When she failed to return the next morning, he set out to look for h...
GANGTOK, India, June 25 -- Sikkim High Court issued the following judgment/order on June 19: 1. The Appellant was charged with the offence under Section 5(j)(ii), punishable under Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (hereinafter, "POCSO Act") and Section 376(1) of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (hereinafter, "IPC"). He was convicted for the POCSO offence (supra) and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a term of twenty years and to pay fine of rs 2,000/...
GANGTOK, India, June 25 -- Sikkim High Court issued the following judgment/order on June 19: 1. The questions that fall for determination before this Court are, (i) whether the Appellant perpetrated sexual assault on the victim; (ii) whether such act could be described as a sexual assault; or (iii) whether it was consensual. 2. On 07-02-2022, Exbt 1, the FIR, was lodged by PW-1, the sister-in-law of the victim PW-2, informing the jurisdictional Police Station that, the Appellant had raped the ...
GANGTOK, India, June 25 -- Sikkim High Court issued the following judgment/order on June 10: 1. Mr. Pradeep Tamang, Learned Counsel enters appearance for the Respondent No.1 today and undertakes to file Vakalatnama during the course of the day. 2. Heard on I.A. No.01 of 2025 which is an application filed by the Petitioners seeking to place certain documents on record. 3. The challenge in this Petition is to the Order dated 24-03- 2025, of the Court of the Learned Civil Judge, Gangtok, in Titl...
RANCHI, India, June 25 -- Jharkhand High Court issued the following order on May 27: 1. The petitioner is accused for the offences punishable under Sections 8/ 15/18/46 of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. 2. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case and has not committed any offence as alleged in the F.I.R. He has been roped in the present case merely on the basis of the statement of the Choukidar of the...
GUWAHATI, India, June 25 -- Gauhati High Court issued the following order on May 25: 1. Heard Mr. N. H. Mazarbhuiyan, the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the appellants and Mr. M. J. Quadir, the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the respondents. 2. This is an appeal under Section 100 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (for short 'the Code') challenging the order dated 10.08.2023 passed in Misc. (J) Case No.9/2023 arising out of Title Appeal No.02/2023 by the learned Court of the...
GUWAHATI, India, June 25 -- Gauhati High Court issued the following order on May 25: 1. Heard Mr. N. H. Mazarbhuiyan, the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the appellants and Mr. M. J. Quadir, the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the respondents. 2. This is an appeal under Section 100 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (for short 'the Code') challenging the order dated 10.08.2023 passed in earned Court of the Additional District Judge, Hailakandi (hereinafter referred to as 'the ...
GUWAHATI, India, June 25 -- Gauhati High Court issued the following order on May 25: 1. Heard Ms. R. Choudhury, the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the appellant and Mr. A. Sattar, the learned counsel who appears on behalf of the respondents. 2. This is an Appeal preferred under Section 100 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (for short, 'the Code') challenging the order dated 31.08.2017 passed in petition No.443/2015 dated 30.01.2015 arising out of Title Appeal No.12/2017 whereby the...
GUWAHATI, India, June 25 -- Gauhati High Court issued the following order on May 25: 1. Heard Mr. R. K. Bhuyan, the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners and Ms. N. B. Kayastha, the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the respondent. 2. The revisional jurisdiction of this Court has been invoked to challenge the order dated 13.07.2015 passed in Title Suit No.313/2005 whereby the learned Court of the Civil Judge No.1, Kamrup, Guwahati {presently the learned Court of the Civi...