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Victims of criminal acts are entitled to pursue constitutional redress in courts even as police investigations on same violations are still ongoing
Background Anjlee Parveen Kumar Sharma filed a constitutional petition after the fatal shooting of her husband, Bunty Bharat Kumar Shah, by police officers at their home in Westlands on 21st October 2017. She brought the petition as administrator of her late husband’s estate and as next friend of their minor son. ...
Child born of a Kenyan citizen married to a non-Kenya(Refugee) automatically acquired a Kenyan citizenship by birth
The petitioner brought a petition on the grounds that there are serious violations or threats to violation of fundamental rights occasioned by the respondents in relation to children born in Kenya parent and the other a Refugee parent ....
The ODPP has a discretion to convert a prosecution witness into an accused person
The Supreme Court in its mandate to interpret the Constitution under Article 163(4)(a) held that the ODPP had power and discretion to transpose a prosecution witness to be charged as an accused person as far as the decision was procedurally fair, constitutional compliant and free of abuse of process