COURT GRANTS NGIGE BAIL DESPITE EFCC OBJECTIONS, SPARKS DEBATE OVER CORRUPTION TRIALS. (PHOTO).
Court Grants Ngige Bail Despite EFCC Objections, Sparks Debate Over Corruption Trials In a move stirring controversy, former Labour Minister and ex-Anambra State Governor, Dr. Chris Ngige, has been granted bail by Justice Maryam Aliyu Hassan of the FCT High Court, even as he faces an eight-count corruption charge filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). While the court adopted the administrative bail previously granted by the EFCC on self-recognizance, it imposed stringent conditions: Ngige must produce a surety who is a Federal Government director, owns land in the FCT with a Certificate of Occupancy, and submits both the original certificate and international passport to the court. Until these are fulfilled, Ngige remains in Kuje Prison. Justice Hassan stressed the constitutional principle that defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty and warned against bail conditions so harsh they amount to denial of liberty — a point clearly at odds with EFCC’...
According to Manish Singh,The Bombay High Court has ruled that it is not illegal to watch pirated content on the web.The ruling addresses a somewhat misleading notice posted by internet service providers in India last month which said that ''viewing'' copyright infringing content too is a punishable act under Indian law.Justice Gautam Patel of the Bombay High Cout ruled that only when a user distributes a copyright infringing content that he or she is committing an offense.''The offense is not in viewing,but in making a prejudicial distribution,a public exhibition or letting for sale or hire without appropriate permission copyright-protected material,'' he said.Several internet service providers in the country began warning customers last month when they visited several torrent and file sharing websites.The warning said that ''viewing,downloading,exhibiting,or duplicating an illicit copy of the contents {...} is punishable as an offence under the laws of India,including but not limited to under Sections 63,63-A,65,and 65-A of the Copyright Act,1956,''.
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