Criminal Law Amendment Act

A single-judge bench of Allahabad High Court while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Dharmendra and Satendra refused to release on bail the accused in the case of killing two people by firing and also killing an injured eyewitness in a land encroachment dispute.

The Court said the applicant's counsel had submitted that the prosecution case was imaginative with regards to granting bail. With the charge-sheet already filed, there is no hope of early conclusion of the trial and proceeded to grant bail.

The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court recently quashed an ongoing criminal case against an Indian Air Force officer. The officer was allegedly accused of assaulting hotel staff along with his other associates for refusing to serve liquor at a hotel in Gomti Nagar.

A single-judge bench of Allahabad High Court denied bail to two UP Police officials, SO Vinay Kumar Tiwari & Beat Officer Krishna Kumar Sharma while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Vinay Kumar Tiwari.

Counsel appearing for the applicant says that the applicant has been wrongly implicated in the case registered under Sections 147, 148, 149, 289, 336, 504, 506, 353, 307 I.P.C. and section 7 of Criminal Law Amendment Act.

New Delhi: Senior Advocate Rebecca John, representing Priya Ramani in MJ Akbar's criminal defamation case, said today that there was no complaint lodged until 2015, because in those days the scope of IPC Section 354 was not as wide.