Bilaspur : The High Court of Chhattisgarh has upheld the life imprisonment of a Raipur man for the repeated sexual assault of a minor, a case solidified by DNA evidence that proved he was the biological father of the victim’s child. The Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal, dismissed…
The Gujarat High Court has begun hearing a plea filed by former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Sanjiv Bhatt, challenging a sessions court order that reinstated charges against him in a decades-old custodial death case. The case dates back to 1990, when Bhatt was serving as the Assistant Superintendent of Police in Jamnagar. During a…
The Chhattisgarh High Court, upheld the conviction of Jhaggar Singh Yadav for the abduction, sexual assault and murder of a minor girl but stopped short of confirming the death sentence the trial court had imposed. After a careful review of the evidence and recent Supreme Court guidance on capital punishment, a two-judge bench led by…
Citation : 2007 Local Law (CG) 2 The Chhattisgarh High Court has upheld the conviction and life sentence of a man found guilty of murdering his five-year-old nephew in Bastar over a superstition-driven dispute. The Division Bench led by Justice Sunil Kumar Sinha dismissed the appeal filed against the Sessions Judge’s order dated February 23,…
Citation : 2006 Local Law (CG) 297 : 2006(1)CGLJ353 The Chhattisgarh High Court has upheld the conviction and life sentence of four men found guilty of murdering college student Preeti Shrivastava in 1998. The court affirmed the trial court’s verdict delivered by the Sessions Judge of Sarguja, rejecting all appeals filed by the accused and…
A Division Bench led by Justices W.A. Shishak and R.S. Garg upheld the conviction of three men for murder under Section 302 IPC, ruling that discovery of bloodstained articles and the murder weapon was sufficient to sustain guilt despite failure to prove “last seen” evidence. The Chhattisgarh High Court has affirmed the conviction of three…