DLC Legal News & Knowledge

Category: Sakshya Adhiniyam

Gifts at Wedding and Diwali Not Dowry, Calling Wife ‘Useless’ Not Cruelty: SC Quashes Dowry Death Case Against Husband Over Wife’s Suicide in Toronto

Nov 10—2026

BNS, BNSS, Crime against women, Criminal law, Evidence, Family Law, Sakshya Adhiniyam, Supreme Court

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Dishonest Intention From the Start Is a Matter for Evidence: Delhi HC Declines to Quash Cheating FIR in Jewellery Credit Case

Oct 12—2026

BNS, BNSS, Criminal, Criminal law, Delhi High Court, Evidence, High Court, Sakshya Adhiniyam

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Defence Must Put Its Case to Witnesses in Cross-Examination, Court Won’t Assume Facts: Patna HC

Oct 8—2026

BNS, BNSS, Criminal, Criminal law, CrPC, High Court, Sakshya Adhiniyam

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Victim’s Conversion to Christianity: AP HC Leaves SC/ST Act Question Open at Investigation Stage

Oct 5—2026

BNSS, Criminal law, CrPC, Evidence, High Court, Sakshya Adhiniyam, SC / ST

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SC: Police Confession Alone Can’t Justify Preventive Detention – 10 Lac fine imposed on State

Oct 3—2026

BNS, BNSS, Criminal law, CrPC, Evidence, Sakshya Adhiniyam, Supreme Court

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HC Refuses to Quash Sexual Assault Case Against 2 Senior Citizens – Trial Commenced

Oct 2—2026

BNS, BNSS, Criminal law, CrPC, Delhi High Court, Evidence, High Court, Sakshya Adhiniyam

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Pre-Trial Detention Cannot Act as Punitive Detention: Supreme Court Grants Bail in Jal Jeevan Mission Corruption Case

Oct 1—2026

BNS, BNSS, Criminal law, CrPC, Evidence, prevention of corruption, Sakshya Adhiniyam, Supreme Court

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SC Acquits Man of Rape – Testimony Cannot Be Split to Reject Abduction Yet Prove Consent Was Forced

Sep 30—2026

BNS, BNSS, Criminal, Criminal law, CrPC, Evidence, Sakshya Adhiniyam, Supreme Court

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SC Commutes Death Sentence in Child Sexual Assault and Murder Case – The Burden of Proof in Private Spaces and Reformative Jurisprudence – Sole Eyewitness Testimony and Commutation of Death Sentence

Sep 29—2026

BNS, BNSS, Criminal, Criminal law, CrPC, Evidence, Sakshya Adhiniyam, Supreme Court

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SC Quashes False POCSO Case and Mandates Expert Safeguards for Accused Parents – child psychiatry / psychology experts to be appointed

Sep 29—2026

BNS, BNSS, Child Custody, CrPC, Evidence, POCSO, Sakshya Adhiniyam

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SC Orders Fresh SIT Investigation in 2012 Karnataka Rape and Murder Case, Citing Flawed Investigations

Sep 28—2026

BNS, BNSS, Criminal, Criminal law, CrPC, Evidence, Sakshya Adhiniyam, Supreme Court

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SC: Illegal arrest requires immediate release – failed to produce within 24 hours

Sep 27—2026

BNSS, Criminal law, CrPC, Evidence, Sakshya Adhiniyam, Supreme Court

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SC Acquits 6 in Election-Day Murder Case Over Unreliable Eyewitnesses and Deficient Investigation

Sep 24—2026

BNS, BNSS, Criminal, Criminal law, CrPC, Evidence, Sakshya Adhiniyam, Supreme Court

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