CRIMINAL LAW ROUNDUP: A quick recap of the top criminal cases from February 2025
Top criminal cases on quashing of proceedings, arrest, bail, acquittal, and more.
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HIGH COURT FEBRUARY 2025 WEEKLY ROUNDUP | Stories on Masaba’s Trade Mark; Sidhu Moosewala’s Murder; Amandeep Singh Batra’s petition; Human Sacrifice; and more
A quick legal roundup to cover important stories from all High Courts this week.
Appeal shall abate if fine imposed on conviction stayed by judicial order or deposited with Court before convict’s death: Punjab and Haryana HC
The issue is that the demise of appellants (‘convicts’) have rendered the power of attorney legally inoperative and invalid. As a fundamental principle of law, only a living person possesses the capacity to confer authority upon another to act on their behalf.
Explained| Vicarious liability under Section 149 IPC: Impact of reduction in number of convicts below five on account of death of co-accused
Supreme Court: The bench of CT Ravikumar* and Sudhanshu Dhulia, JJ has held that merely because some of the convicts had died
Death of main accused under Prevention of Corruption Act does not result in abatement of trial
Bombay High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of Prakash D. Naik, J. answered a reference made by the Additional Chief Metropolitan