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Bombay HC asks civic bodies for data on FIRs against illegal hoardings-banners, fines recovered
Giving the TMC a last chance to file the affidavit, the court said if the same is not done by next week then it would be...
Cal HC to hear challenge to school jobs interview list on Nov 19
The SSC had on Saturday published the interview list of 20,500 candidates who qualified in the September 14 teacher recr...
Disqualification of BRS MLAs: SC issues contempt notice to Telangana speaker, calls it 'grossest kind of contempt'
The top court reiterated that the speaker acts as a tribunal while deciding disqualification pleas under the Tenth Sched...
Azam Khan, son Abdullah convicted in dual PAN card case; sent to Rampur dist jail
For offences under Section 468, the accused received three years' simple imprisonment and a fine of Rs 10,000, with thre...
X Corp challenges legality of ‘Sahyog’ portal takedown process before Karnataka HC
A key plank of the appeal is the allegation that the single judge misapplied the Shreya Singhal case, wrongly concluding...
SC directs Uttarakhand govt to take steps to restore Corbett Tiger Reserve
"With regard to the tiger safari... we have issued guidelines. We have held that it has to be in consonance with the 201...
SC defers hearing by six weeks on Sahara firm's plea seeking nod to sell properties to Adani
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the Sahara Group, said he would like to file a response to the note submitted...
Maharashtra: Tribunal awards Rs 74 lakh compensation to family of accident victim
Vinodkumar Bhagirath Chauhan, who worked with a private company, died in June 2020 after a speeding truck hit his motorc...
Administration of criminal justice 'most neglected sphere': ex-CJI U U Lalit
10 years of running after that so-called mice, and finally, it turns out that it was not a mouse, but it was a rabbit. N...
SEBI-Sahara case: SC to hear on Monday pleas of employees for payment of pending salaries
The bench asked the amicus curiae to also take note of the responses of other stakeholders with regard to these properti...
Tripura: Man gets 20 yrs RI for raping girl
The court of District and Sessions Judge, V P Debbarma, also slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 on Samir Kuri, a resident of In...
No elevation from 'may be true' to 'must be true', says Delhi court; acquits man in murder case
The prosecution, from the quality and quantity of the evidence, could not prove the chain of circumstantial evidence, wh...
Cal HC asks Bengal govt to publish draft notification on 15-yr-old buses
Disposing of the petition on Friday, Justice Rai Chattopadhyay gave liberty to the West Bengal government to publish the...
Delhi court acquits three in 2021 attempt to murder case
In an order dated November 12, the court said, "Not a scintilla of evidence has come on record against accused persons f...
Man acquitted in rape case; court cites inconclusive age proof, says relationship was consensual
her relations with the accused were mostly voluntary, consensual, and of her own free will. She also admitted that if he...
Right to Education example of affirmative action that transformed lives: Ex-CJI U U Lalit FORMER CJI-SPEECH
We keep hearing criticism that judges indulge in activism. Then this activism is at the highest level, where by interpre...
HC hears Prajwal Revanna's appeal; counsel alleges media trial, weak evidence
The case in which Revanna has been sentenced pertains to the one involving 48-year-old woman who was working as a help a...
Allahabad HC denies granting protection to live-in couple, says woman still married
A spouse has statutory right to enjoy the company of his or her counterpart and he/she cannot be deprived of that right ...
School teacher gets life term for raping 10-year-old girl in Kerala
The court decided not to order a separate sentence under IPC section 376(2)(f)(rape by a person in a position of trust o...
Pune land scam: suspended govt official gets temporary bail
On Saturday, the court passed an order that he shall be released on `ad-interim' (temporary) pre-arrest bail -- until th...
Korean firm takes legal action against illegal ESSE cigarettes
KT&G (Korea Tobacco & Ginseng Corporation), has engaged S S Rana & Co, a leading law firm, to launch a decisive legal in...
Delhi HC grants 3-week parole to HIV positive convict in Jigisha Ghosh murder case
The state's counsel further said that since the convict is undergoing treatment for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), ...
Defamation case, Rahul Gandhi, Court, Adjourns hearing, Dec 6
The court had directed the Nizampura police to conduct a probe and submit a report in connection with the case. The insp...
HC directs Rajasthan govt to complete panchayat, municipal polls by Apr 15 next year
The petitions, filed by former MLA Sanyam Lodha and 438 others, had argued that postponing elections violated Articles 2...
Instructions on using Aadhaar as proof of identity, not citizenship, already issued: EC to SC
The poll panel said the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), in an office memorandum (OM) in August 2023, h...
Union minister Arjun Meghwal calls for CAT bench in Jharkhand
We have entered AI-enabled technology era with development of artificial intelligence, robotics, 3-D painting, machine l...
Chaitanyananda claims threat to his life; Delhi court seeks report from prison authorities
According to the FIR, Chaitanyananda allegedly forced female students to visit his quarters late at night and sent them ...
MACT awards Rs 18.32 lakh compensation to kin of man killed in road accident
According to settled law, the presence of an FIR against the driver, along with the criminal record of the case showing ...
Thane court sentences three to life imprisonment in 2021 mob lynching case
Although the accused are young offenders and their family members are dependent on them, the manner of the commission of...
Engineer held by ATS for terror links, radicalisation remanded in judicial custody till Nov 28
In addition, a magazine titled 'Inspire' was found, containing photographs of AK-47 training at the OSG Gun School and d...
UP: 25 convicted in 2005 cow slaughter, attack on police case in Bulandshahr
During the investigation, sections of the Gangsters Act were added on May 17, 2005, and a chargesheet was later filed ag...
Mumbra railway accident: Judge notes maintainance failure while refusing pre-arrest bail
"From above discussion and both the reports on record, prima facie it seems that the alleged incident was not mere an ac...
Six sentenced to life imprisonment for killing man in 2023
Delivering the verdict on Friday, the court sentenced Humayu, Abad, Afaaq, Shahrooq, Afzal and Aurangzeb to life impriso...
My university fees not paid for 2 months, Karisma Kapoor's daughter tells Delhi HC
In the fairytale "Cinderella", the young woman is mistreated by her stepmother, who focuses all of her attention on her ...
UP court acquits BJP MLA, 7 others in 2012 road blocking case
The case pertained to allegations that they blocked a road during a demonstration near Khubbapur village on September 29...
NGT seeks MCD, govt response over improper waste disposal in Delhi's Jangpura
In an order dated November 7, the bench of NGT Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava and expert member A Senthil Vel h...