The Kerala High Court has held that when trial courts frame charges in deaths involving motor vehicle accidents, they should decide whether an alternative charge for an offence under Section 304A IPC.
The Supreme Court ruled that liability of murder accused will not be diminished merely because the death of the victim occurred after a considerable lapse of time from when he suffered injuries due to the acts of accused
A 15-year-old Dalit boy has died days after he was thrashed by his schoolteacher here, prompting the opposition parties to target the Yogi Adityanath government while local residents staged a protest, officials said on Tuesday.Nikhil Kumar, a class 10 student at a local inter-college on Phaphond Road in Achalda police station area, was allegedly thrashed by his social sciences teacher Ashwini Singh on September 7 for making mistakes in a test.