Senior criminal lawyers explain the minutiae of the National Herald case in an effort to help sort out the legal intricacies of the case for the layman.
A 1984 anti-Sikh riots victim alleged before a Delhi court that the Central Bureau of Investigation had discredited the witnesses in the case in order to "shield" former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler."The CBI failed once again. Whatever they did, it was only to shield the accused. Instead of protecting the witnesses, they started with the premise that they were not reliable," advocate Rebecca M John told Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Rakesh Pandit.
The Delhi High Court on Thursday restrained the city police from conducting a narco-analysis test on top Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy. Justice Indermeet Kaur stayed the trial court's order, which had on October 31 allowed the police to conduct the test on the 63-year-old Maoist leader. The court passed the order after Ghandy's counsel submitted that the test can't be conducted until and unless the Constitutional validity of the narco-test is decided.
'Capital punishments have rarely acted as a deterrent. What we need to do is to make our society, our workplaces, our streets safe for women'
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