| |
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
Country's
first govt. school bus services launched |
|
Sarkozy
to submit bill banning Islamic face veil |
|
Top
bureaucrats found involved in corruption cases |
|
In
vibrant Gujarat, women queue up till late night to fetch
water |
|
'Changing
jail of the blast accused against the manual' |
|
Reconsider plea of the Madrassa: Gujarat HC to the state |
|
Pakistani
editor Rehana Hakim pessimistic about SAARC meet |
|
'Indian
Muslims should vote for development, not fear' |
|
|
|
 |
Backward Federation for quota within quota in Women Reservation Bill:
Chairman of All India Backward Classes Federation and senior RJD
leader Indra .....Read
Full
Govt. proposes steps for increasing
representation of women
Reservations: Dilemmas Galore
|
|
 Indo-Pak
trust deficit looms large over Bhutan SAARC summit:
Persisting ambiguity
over the possibility ....
Read Full
Pakistani
editor Rehana Hakim pessimistic about SAARC meet |
| |
|
|
 |
|
Supreme Court can
also make mistake, not once twice:
Judges are also human,
this fact has been amply demonstrated while trying to correct the
mistake committed by a bench of the Supreme Court, the new bench
....
Read Full |
 'Indian
Muslims should vote for development, not fear':
"India is most likely to
become a modern nation because all the four pillars of modernity
through Democracy, adult ....
Read Full |
|
 No
proposal to walk out of Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline: Govt.:
The Government today
denied that it was considering a proposal to walk out of the
Iran-.....
Read Full |
 100
million more Indians now living below the poverty line:
India now has 100
million more people living below the poverty line than in 2004,
according to ....
Read Full |
| |
|
|
 |
|
|
 'Indian
Americans catching up in US politics too’:
Recipient of this year’s prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honour,
Indian American business leader Rao S. Anumolu .....
Read Full |
 Jessica
murder:
SC
upholds life for Manu Sharma:
The Supreme Court Monday dismissed an appeal by Manu Sharma,
Congress leader Venod Sharma's son ....
Read Full |
|
 'Islamic
Finance is not a Muslim-only affair':
"There is nothing more
powerful in the world than an idea whose time has come. Islamic
finance is not a Muslim-only affair. It shows qualities .....
Read Full |
 MIM
opposes union territory status to Hyderabad:
TEnding its silence over the Telangana issue, the
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) Sunday opposed the demand for
union .....
Read Full |
|
 Decks
cleared for setting up 20 new IIITs:
Decks have been cleared for setting up of 20 new IIITs
in the country after differences between industry bodies and
....Read
Full |
 Mujibullah,
who brought glories to Indian Railways:
An abiding interest in Railways led
Mohd Mujibullah, Heritage Assistant, Eastern Railways ....
Read Full |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Supreme Court can
also make mistake, not once twice:
Judges are also human,
this fact has been amply demonstrated while trying to correct the
mistake committed by a bench of the Supreme Court, the new bench
....
Read Full |
|
|
New Delhi:
Conceding it erred, the Supreme Court has released four Madhya
Pradesh natives who were sent to jail by it in November 2008, in a
1991 murder-cum-riot case, without affording them a hearing.
This was the fourth time that the matter came up before the court,
as on earlier three occasions the court had failed to resolve the
issue related to wrongful imprisonment of the four accused.
A four-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan,
Wednesday ordered release of Bhoja, Puran, Balveer and Raghubir,
conceding that they had been sent to jail without being given an
opportunity to have their say in the court proceedings - a serious
violation of the principles of natural justice.
When the mistake was pointed out by counsel Aftab Ali Khan for the
four accused, the CJI's bench, which also included Justice S.H.
Kapadia, Justice Altmas Kabir and Justice R.V. Raveendran, on April
20 promised to correct the judicial mistake, if committed, in the
first week of May.
But following news reports on the queer judicial mistake, the court
promptly took up the matter Wednesday and rectified it.
The four - Bhoja, Puran, Balveer and Raghubir - all residents of
Negma village of Shivpuri district in Madhya Pradesh were originally
convicted by a Shivpuri trial court in October 1991 in a
murder-cum-riot case along with four others from the village - Sugar
Singh, Laxman, Onkar and Ramesh.
The eight subsequently went in appeal to the Gwalior bench of the
Madhya Pradesh High Court, which acquitted them all in January 2003.
This led the state government to move the Supreme Court, challenging
the acquittal of four of the eight persons - Sugar Singh, Laxman,
Onkar and Ramesh - of murder charges.
But in November 2008, Justice Arijit Pasayatâ??s bench restored the
conviction of all eight, without hearing Bhoja, Puran, Balveer and
Raghubir.
They could not get an opportunity to have their say in the court
hearings as the state government had not challenged their acquittal
and they had not received any notice to appear in the court to
defend themselves.
But Justice Pasayatâ??s bench went on to restore their conviction
and 6-year-long sentence on charges of rioting and culpable homicide
not amounting to murder, imposed by the Shivpuri sessions court in
1991.
The four eventually surrendered to the court in November 2008 and
sought review of its order jailing them. But the court dismissed
their review petition, repeating the mistake.
The four subsequently moved the apex court yet again through a
curative petition, which was heard by a bench of chief justice and
three other judges.
But while deciding the curative petition, the four judge bench ended
up ordering release of four others, against whom the state had come
in appeal to the court, while virtually forgetting all about the
other four, who had been sent behind bar without being heard. This
was the mistake committed the third time.
The court eventually corrected the mistake Wednesday in its fourth
attempt.
|
Comment on this article