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    • FIR in Delhi Airport Terminal 1 collapse case in sensitive category, not declared heinous crime

      The First Information Report filed against unknown persons has charges of negligence causing grievous hurt and death.

    • New criminal laws prioritise victims, upgrade definitions of crime, push for digitising criminal justice system, experts say

      The new laws provide greater focus on crimes against women and children, specific laws for financial and cyber crimes, a longer process to file an FIR, greater emphasis on victim rights, speedier trials, and introduction of new offences like hate speech and terrorism.

    • New criminal laws: Delhi records first FIR under new penal code BNS against a street vendor

      From now on, all FIRs will follow BNS provisions, while cases before July 1 will continue under the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), and Indian Evidence Act

    • Lawyers, litigants brace for new criminal laws that take effect on July 1

      Implementing the new laws will require additional training for law enforcement and administrative personnel, straining an already overburdened system.

    • SC refuses to entertain three new criminal laws to replace IPC, CrPC, Evidence Act

      A vacation bench of justices Bela Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal dismissed the plea noting that the law has not come into force as yet.

    • New criminal laws will mean procedural change; offences, though, remain much the same: Sr Adv Amit Desai

      According to Desai, the effects of the new laws on the criminal justice system and in investigations may take five to seven years to fully pan out.

    • Goa court sends start-up firm CEO to 6 days of police custody for alleged murder of her 4-yr-old son

      The Goa police arrested the accused, Suchana Seth, 39, from Chitradurga in Karnataka on Monday night. She was brought to Goa on Tuesday afternoon, following which she was presented before a court in Mapusa town.

    • PIL in Supreme Court challenges 3 new criminal laws to replace IPC, CrPC, Evidence Act

      The PIL seeks for directions to the government to constitute an expert committee under the chairmanship of a former judge of the apex court examine, assess, identify the viability of the three new criminal laws.

    • Old criminal laws to continue till government notifies new laws, experts say

      While parliament can question the government for not notifying the laws despite receiving presidential assent, the government cannot be forced, even by an order of the court, to notify the laws.

    • MC Explains: What changes as Indian Penal Code becomes Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita

      From bringing terrorism and organised crime under the ambit of ordinary criminal law to repealing Section 377 that criminalised homosexuality, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill, 2023 makes several key departures from the Indian Penal Code

    • Lawyers urge SC to constitute a 7-judge bench to hear challenges to sedition law

      It was argued that in 1962, a 5-judge bench of the Supreme Court upheld the validity of sedition law in Kedarnath Singh's judgment and hence it needs to be placed before a 7-judge bench if the 5-judge judgment needs to be reviewed

    • Man held for threat call claiming Dawood gang tasked him to assassinate PM Modi, UP CM Adityanath

      The 29-year-old accused, identified as Kamran Amir Khan, is a resident of Sion East in Mumbai. He made this threat call on Tuesday, which later turned out to be a hoax, the official noted.

    • One worker dead, four hospitalised after gas leak in industrial unit in Raigad

      A case was registered under Indian Penal Code sections for causing death by negligence, rash and negligent act endangering human life and other offences, the official added.

    • Action taken against Amethi's Sanjay Gandhi Hospital after probe, says Dy CM Pathak

      Congress leader Sonia Gandhi is the chairperson of the Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Trust New Delhi which runs the Amethi hospital, while party leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi are the members of the trust.

    • SC refers pleas against sedition law to Constitution Bench

      Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud will take a call on whether the case will be heard by a bench of five judges or seven judges.

    • Court sends suspended Delhi government officer Premoday Khakha to 1-day judicial custody

      His wife Seema Rani, who is accused of giving the girl medicine to terminate her pregnancy, was also sent to judicial custody for a day.

    • PM degree row: Court rejects Kejriwal, AAP MP plea for fast-tracking hearing against summons

      Kejriwal, who is also the AAP convenor, and Singh had on Monday requested the sessions court to hear their plea, challenging the summons by the metropolitan court, expeditiously after it adjourned the hearing to September 16.

    • Gujarat court denies interim bail to father of collegian involved in flyover accident that killed nine

      Tathya's father Pragnesh Patel was arrested on the charges of criminal intimidation for allegedly threatening people gathered at the accident site, where his son rammed his car into a crowd.

    • Extended deadline to submit suggestions to Law Commission on UCC ends

      On July 14, the law panel extended the deadline for the public to send their views on UCC till July 28, saying the decision was taken following an overwhelming response and numerous requests seeking more time for submitting suggestions.

    • Husband watching Brahmakumari videos, not consummating marriage is not cruelty: High Court

      The High Court noted that failure to consummate a marriage does not amount to cruelty under the definition of section 498A of the IPC

    • Law commission's recommendation on sedition not binding, says law minster

      The law minister also further said that the law commission's report on sedition is one of the steps in the extensive consultation process that the government has undertaken.

    • Law commission recommends retaining sedition as offence in criminal law

      The law commission's report has recommended that the punishment for committing an act of sedition be increased to seven years from the current punishment of three years.

    • IndiGo passenger arrested for smoking inside toilet in Bengaluru-Kolkata flight

      The IndiGo aircraft cabin crew suspected that Priyanka C was smoking mid-flight and after an inspection, found a cigarette in the dustbin.

    • Noida neta row: Local police station in-charge shunted as probe intensifies

      Sujeet Upadhyay, in-charge of Phase 2 police station, was removed from the post late Sunday night. Sujeet Upadhyay, in-charge of Phase 2 police station, was removed from the post late Sunday night.

    • Marital rape gets split verdict by Delhi High Court on criminalisation

      The judgment comes on a batch of petitions that challenged the exception of marriage to the provision of rape under Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code

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