Criminal Law

Delhi High Court quashes Look Out Circulars in a six-year PMLA probe, holding that mere pendency of investigation cannot indefinitely restrict the Article 21 right to travel abroad.

The Supreme Court held that judges must not impose personal views on morality when deciding bail, setting aside an MP High Court order that cited 'social order' and 'morals'.

The Supreme Court quashed Mulla Afroz's NSA detention, holding a confessional statement cannot be the sole ground for preventive detention, and imposed ₹10 lakh costs on Uttar Pradesh.

The Delhi High Court held advocate-client privilege cannot bar a probe into a lawyer's own conduct. The Supreme Court has now stayed that ruling in the Puneet Batra GST search case.

Supreme Court holds Section 197 CrPC sanction bites only at the cognizance stage, not when a Magistrate orders police officials' FIR registered under Section 156(3).

Thirteen years and three failed investigations after a 17-year-old's rape and murder in Dharmasthala, the Supreme Court orders a fresh SIT probe, laying out when courts can order reinvestigation even after an acquittal.

The Supreme Court holds that bribe money recovered from an intermediary isn't proof a public servant demanded or accepted it, raising the evidentiary bar for India's most common corruption-case pattern.

The Supreme Court's new three-stage test means a company can be prosecuted even if no individual employee is ever named. Here's why that changes Indian corporate compliance for good.

The Supreme Court has ordered a final hearing within three weeks on the constitutional validity of the marital rape exception under IPC Section 375 and BNS Section 63.