Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has expressed concern over an emerging trend of failed intimate relationships increasingly resulting in criminal proceedings. Justice Krishan Pahal, while allowing the bail application of one Arun Kumar Mishra, observed that the woman, with full and conscious knowledge of the applicant’s marital history – that he had earlier been married … Read more
Weeks after an Allahabad High Court judge observed that grabbing breasts or snapping a pyjama string do not constitute rape or attempt to rape, his colleague has granted bail to a rape accused, noting that the victim “invited trouble and was also responsible for the same”. According to the FIR registered in September last year, … Read more
Prayagraj: Justice Yashwant Varma, who was transferred from the Delhi High Court to the Allahabad High Court amid cash-at-home allegations, was administered the oath in a “clandestine” manner on Saturday, the High Court Bar Association (HCBA) here claimed while condemning the move. The lawyers’ body, which had opposed the repatriation of the judge, questioned why … Read more
Underlining a “total lack of sensitivity”, the Supreme Court today paused the Allahabad High Court ruling in a child abuse case, in which the judge had observed that the grabbing of breast and pulling the string of a pyjama don’t amount to a rape attempt. The bench of Justice BR Gavai and Justice Augustine George Masih … Read more
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has taken cognisance on its own of a controversial Allahabad High Court ruling that mere grabbing of the breast and pulling the string of a ‘pyjama’ do not amount to offence of rape. A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Augustine George Masih is slated to hear the matter … Read more
New Delhi: Allahabad High Court lawyers will go on an indefinite strike to protest the Supreme Court Collegium’s decision to return to them Justice Yashwant Varma – the Delhi High Court judge from whose bungalow in the city a pile of burnt cash was reportedly recovered on Holi. Justice Varma was previously an additional judge, … Read more
New Delhi: Union Minister of Women and Child Development Annpurna Devi today strongly condemned a recent judgment by the Allahabad High Court, which ruled that the act of grabbing a woman’s breast and snapping the string of her pyjama does not constitute rape but instead falls under the category of assault with intent to disrobe. … Read more