The Court said the power to arrest is a dangerous one as it encroaches on the most precious right of an individual i.e. personal liberty. It said the police must exercise this power with due care and circumspection.
While disposing of a revision petition, a division bench of the Jharkhand High Court has recently held that sentences in separate trials involving different offences and victims cannot run.
Calcutta High Court acquitted a man of rape for a broken promise to marry, after finding that the woman had voluntarily entered the sexual relationship because she was in love and “not because he promised to marry her.”
West Bengal Cattle Smuggling Case: TMC ‘Bahubali’ Anubrata Mondal is under the CBI scanner for his alleged role in the inter-state cattle smuggling scam.
The freedom and agency of a woman in her matrimonial home is restricted even in the present times, observed the Calcutta High Court recently while rationalising a delay in lodging a complaint in a rape case.