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News of Jan
2 2007
Courts to Deliver
Crucial Judgements This month
New
Delhi, Jan 2
The Supreme Court and other courts in the capital, re-opening
Wednesday after winter break, will begin the New Year on a busy
note, with verdicts expected in a number of public interest cases,
including the so- called tandoor murder case and the murder of
journalist Shivani Bhatnagar.
The apex court is expected to pronounce its verdict on a slew of
matters of legal and constitutional import in January. January will
also see the Delhi High Court and its subordinate courts taking up
adjudication of several high profile criminal suits.
The Supreme Court will witness the change of guard in the middle of
January - senior most judge K.G. Balakrishnan is to assume charge as
chief justice of India with the retirement of Y.K. Sabharwal.
A nine-judge constitutional bench is likely to deliver its verdict
on the apex court's constitutional powers of judicial review of laws
put in the 9th schedule of the constitution this month.
Another important matter on which the Supreme Court is likely to
deliver its verdict in January involves the issue of disciplinary
jurisdictions of the Lok Sabha speaker and Rajya Sabha chairman over
MPs in their respective houses.
The court has already completed its hearing on a petition by 11 MPs,
challenging their ouster from parliament following their alleged
role in the cash-for-query scam of December 2005.
The month is likely to see the high court deliver its verdict on the
appeal of former Youth Congress leader Sushil Sharma, facing death
sentence for the murder of his wife Naina Sahni and later disposing
off her body in a tandoor (oven) of a restaurant July 2, 1995.
In what came to be known as "tandoor murder case", Sharma was
awarded death sentence by Additional Sessions Judge G.P. Thareja Nov
7, 2003.
His accomplice Keshav Kumar, the manager of the open-air Bagiya
restaurant in the premises of the erstwhile Ashok Yatri Niwas, too
was convicted and given seven years' rigorous imprisonment. The two
have appealed in the high court against the trial court judgement.
Delhi trial courts also have their share of high-profile cases to
adjudicate over. A session court at the Karkardooma complex in east
Delhi is likely to give its verdict in the case related to the
murder of journalist Shivani Bhatnagar, involving former senior
police officer Ravi Kant Sharma.
Shivani was found murdered in her east Delhi flat Jan 23, 1999. The
probe revealed that Sharma allegedly eliminated her with the help of
professional killers.
Another session court in the Patiala House Court complex with
jurisdiction over New Delhi is to continue hearing the case related
to Nitish Katara's murder, in which the prime accused are Vikas
Yadav, son of Uttar Pradesh politician D.P. Yadav, and his cousin
Vishal Yadav.
Katara
had been allegedly kidnapped and done to death by Vikas and his
accomplices because he did not like the victim's friendship with his
sister Bharati Yadav.
IANS News of Jan
2 2007
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