Higher court can set aside anticipatory bail order: Supreme Court
Legal CorrespondentThe Supreme Court has held that a superior court can set aside an anticipatory bail order if there is enough material to suggest that factors like gravity of the offence and the role of the accused in the crime were not considered by the lower court.A Bench led by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud said that a court, while considering an application for grant of anticipatory bail, has to consider the nature of the offence, the role of the person, the likelihood of his influencing the course of
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2 booked for selling child sexual abuse material
Devesh K. PandeyThe CBI has booked two residents of Uttar Pradesh in separate cases for allegedly circulating and selling child sexual abuse material through their Instagram accounts.The first accused has been identified as Manish Patel, a resident of Mallawan in Hardoi, who had been publishing images of children depicting them in sexually explicit positions. He offered to sell such photographs at different rates. The second accused was identified as Vishal Yadav, a resident of Jaunpur, who had also been
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Modi too scared to call China out: Congress
Special CorrespondentCongress also questions his ‘continued’ silence in spite of fresh incursions by Chinese forces
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Veer Savarkar was an icon of Indian history, will remain so: Rajnath Singh
Special CorrespondentRSS chief Mohan Bhagwat says ‘those who do not know the generosity of Savarkar’s ideas defame him’
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