Indian embassy helping 3 men on death row in Indonesia, legal aid in progress: Govt tells Delhi HC | India News – The Times of India

Indian embassy helping 3 men on death row in Indonesia, legal aid in progress: Govt tells Delhi HC | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday informed the Delhi high court that the Indian embassy in Indonesia is actively assisting three Indian nationals from Tamil Nadu who were sentenced to death for drug smuggling, including by providing legal aid and pursuing appeal remedies.The three men, Raju Muthukumaran, Selvadurai Dinakaran, and Govindasamy Vimalkandhan, were arrested in…

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High courts can stay discharge orders only in rare cases: SC | India News – The Times of India

High courts can stay discharge orders only in rare cases: SC | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Observing that staying a trial court’s reasoned order to discharge an accused in a criminal case resulted in curtailing the liberty granted to him, Supreme Court on Friday said high courts should stay an order only in rare and exceptional cases when the discharge order prima facie looked “perverse”.A bench of Justices Abhay…

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