Citation : 2025 Local Law (CG) 850 The Chhattisgarh High Court at Bilaspur has set aside a 1998 acquittal and convicted 11 men for the 1994 murder of a villager in Mahasamund district, ordering them to serve life imprisonment. A division bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Bibhu Datta Guru delivered the judgment…
The High Court of Chhattisgarh set aside a 2016 acquittal and convicted two men for the 2013 murder of Dashrath Lal Khandelwal, finding that eyewitness testimony, a test identification parade, extra-judicial admissions and forensic evidence together established their guilt. The court sitting before Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Bibhu Datta Guru held that the…
Citation : 2001 Local Law (CG) 29 The Chhattisgarh High Court rebuked a lower court for arbitrarily denying bail to an accused who was not named in either the First Information Report (FIR) or the dying declaration of the victim. Justice R.S. Garg described the lower court’s decision as “whimsical” and “capricious,” emphasizing that judicial…