Judicial Custody

In the case of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) scam, a special CBI refused to send accused to further CBI remand. The court pronounced the order, stating that "no grounds for further remand exist". The order has come after CBI had filed filed an application, seeking to remand accused TP Singh in CBI custody for five days. The CBI in the aforementioned matter, has arrested 5 others as well.

Mohammed Zubair, Co-founder of AltNews has been remanded four-day judicial custody in a case, registered against him over an objectionable Twitter post.  On June 28, a Patiala House Court remanded Mohammed, after he was produced before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate after the expiry of his one-day custodial interrogation. Although the Twitter post was shared in 2018, a case was registered with the Delhi Police recently, following which he was… read-more

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody of the Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain has been extended till June 13. A Delhi district court judge, on June 9, reviewed the custodial plea and extended the ED custody. Notably, Satyendar Jain has been arrested by the ED in a money laundering case, happened in 2017. He has been arrested on May 31 and has been under judicial custody since then.

YSRCP MLC Anantha Babu, an accused in the murder of his ex-driver V Subrahmanyam, confessed his crime before the AP police. He said, although he didn't plan to murder Subrahmanyam, he beat him to death. Notably, on May 19, V Subrahmanyam was found dead in Kakinada, following which a case was registered. After an initial investigation, Babu was produced before the court and is currently under 14-days of judicial-custody.

A special PMLA court extended the judicial custody of NCP leader Nawab Malik to the Enforcement Directorate till April 22. Notably, NCP leader and former Maharashtra Minister Malik has been accused of money laundering and connection with the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, which is being investigated by ED. Furthermore, this is the fourth time the PMLA court extended his custody. Meanwhile, the SC also agreed to list Malik's bail plea.