Azad said, There was a need for amendment. We are happy that the cabinet has approved the proposal.

Health Minister added, After amendment, it will become both patient friendly and stringent. Ten years of imprisonment will be handed over to doctors and touts involved in illegal organ transplantation.
Under the current provisions of the act, the maximum punishment is not more than five years.

he said earlier the act was only related to organs but after amendment it will take into account transplantation of tissues, bones and skin. Now grandfather and grandchildren are included in the scope of donor and recipient.

Justices B.N. Chaturvedi and GS. Sistani upheld the life term for then ACP SS. Rathi and nine others for gunning down Pradeep Goyal and Jagjit Singh on the Barakhamba Road March, 1997.

A city court held all 10 policemen guilty of gunning down the businessmen. Police approached the high court saying the shootout was a case of mistaken identity and not a conspiracy as the victims were mistakenly identified as Yaseen, a dreaded UP gangster.

Submitting the charge sheet in the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja, the special cell of Delhi Police sought prosecution of Mohammed Akbar Ismail Choudhary under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Explosive Substances Act for his alleged involvement in the serial blasts of the national capital.

D police filed four separate supplementary charge sheets against Akbar Ismail Choudhary, who had allegedly arranged a car of his elder brother Mohsin to Mansoor Asghar Peerbhoy and others for helping them.

Akbar Ismail Choudhary, a resident of Pune, was arrested by the Mumbai police in September 2008 before being taken into custody by the Delhi police for allegedly providing logistical support in connection with serial blasts.

Justices Bilal Nazki and A R Joshi acquitted him in the case, after Ravindra Kantrole filed an appeal in the HC.

Ravindra, who was charged with three murders, was earlier acquitted in two of the cases, but was convicted in one by the sessions court.

Kantrole was acquitted in the case where he was charged with killing a man sleeping on a pavement on the foot-over bridge near Metro cinema in south Mumbai on January, 2007.

Additional Sessions Judge Dharmesh Sharma said , The entire conduct vis-a-vis evidence suggests that she had willingly gone with the accused to different places and when her husband came to know about her elopement with the accused she tried to shield herself and framed the accused,.

Delhi police for delay in tracing her, Chief Justice AP Shah and Justice Manmohan said, due to you negligence the situation happened.

The girl was allegedly kidnapped in October last year and was traced from Jalandhar, Punjab, early this month.

Her parents found that she was in an advance stage of pregnancy and did not want to go back to the custody of her kidnapper.

Surajbhan Singh was facing life imprisonment for his involvement in the murder of former minister and RJD leader Brij Bihari Prasad. He was killed in judicial custody in 1998.

Justices Chandra Mohan Prasad and DD Jha passed the bail order on the petition filed by Singh.

Court gave a clean chit to Pandher, who was awarded death sentence by the special trial court of the CBI, it upheld the same sentence on his domestic servant Surinder, believed to be an equal partner in the gruesome killings.

Justice Imtiaz Murtaza and Justice KN.Pandey, however, made it clear that the acquittal was only with respect to the rape and murder of 14-year-old Rimpa Haldar, a maid who had disappeared from Pandher’s house about four years ago. The remaining 18 cases against the two accused would continue, the court clarified.

Significantly, the CBI had also given Pandher a clean chit after the UP police handed over the case to the premier investigation agency following much public outcry across the state and Delhi.Pandher and Koli had challenged the death sentence awarded to them on Feb 13 this year by the trial court in Ghaziabad.

The high court, while upholding the death sentence of Koli, who had admitted to have killed the 14-year-old girl, observed that the crime committed by him was “gruesome, heinous and cold-blooded” and “we would not forebear from expressing that the accused Surendra Koli is a menace to the society”.

The bench observed: “The depraved and brutish acts of Koli call for only one sentence and that is death sentence. We agree with the reasoning of the sessions judge awarding death sentence and affirm the same award to Koli.”

The conviction in the murder of 14-year-old Haldar, who was one of the 19 victims to be sexually exploited and brutally murdered at Pandher’s house at Nithari in Noida, was the first one to be pronounced against the duo.

While Koli was found guilty by the court under various sections of Indian Penal Code for murder and rape, Pandher was convicted on the same charges along with Section 120-B -criminal conspiracy.

Justice Sunil Hali, who had heard two separate bail applications moved by the police officers, granted bail to SP Javed Iqbal Mattoo, DSP Rohit Baskotra, SHO Shafeeq Ahmad and sub-inspector Qazi Abdul Karim on a conditions that they would not leave the state or influence witnesses.

police officials were arrested on orders of a Division bench of HC which included Justice Barin Ghosh for allegedly destroying evidence in the rape and murder of two girls.

Justice Sima Ali Khan ordered stay on the summons against Mr. Nitish Kumar issued by a court on August 31 on a writ petition filed by Yogendra Prasad Yadav, already chargesheeted in the case, seeking stay on the proceedings of Barh court saying it was violative of an earlier order of the High Court in this connection.

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Ranjan Kumar had passed the order asking Mr. Kumar and Dularchand Yadav to appear before him on September 9 following a petition filed by Ashok Singh, a relative of Congress activist Sitaram Singh who was killed in firing at a polling booth at Barh during the Lok Sabha election (1991).