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Sheena murder: Key accused Indrani Mukerjea moves fresh plea, seeks court nod to travel abroad

Sheena murder: Key accused Indrani Mukerjea moves fresh plea, seeks court nod to travel abroad

Mukerjea's move came after the Supreme Court last month refused to entertain her plea to travel abroad and directed her ...

Mumbai court acquits Shiv Sena leader in 2015 case of insulting woman's modesty

Mumbai court acquits Shiv Sena leader in 2015 case of insulting woman's modesty

Acquitting Sunil Chitnis, the accused, Additional Sessions Judge S S Adkar held that the prosecution failed to prove the...

MP court orders registration of FIR in Jabalpur boat tragedy that killed 13 people

MP court orders registration of FIR in Jabalpur boat tragedy that killed 13 people

Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) D P Sutrakar said the "failure" of the cruise boat driver and other crew members ...

Cabinet approves proposal to increase number of Supreme Court judges by 4

Cabinet approves proposal to increase number of Supreme Court judges by 4

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said a bill will be brought in the next session of Parliament to raise the apex court's ...

Delhi court directs confiscation of UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari's properties

Delhi court directs confiscation of UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari's properties

Special Judge Sanjay Jindal noted that on July 5 last year, Bhandari was declared a fugitive economic offender in connec...

Delhi court acquits man accused of attempting to kill cop

Delhi court acquits man accused of attempting to kill cop

Additional Sessions Judge Harvinder Singh was hearing a case against Anwar, accused of possessing a firearm and firing i...

Kishore Datta resigns as West Bengal advocate general

Kishore Datta resigns as West Bengal advocate general

He was appointed advocate general on December 16, 2023, for a second term, following the resignation of SN Mookherjee....

4 TCS employees get judicial custody till May 18 in male colleague's religious conversion case

4 TCS employees get judicial custody till May 18 in male colleague's religious conversion case

The four accused - Raza Rafiq Memon (35), Tausif Bilal Attar (37), Danish Ejaz Sheikh (32) and Shahrukh Husain Shaukat Q...

Drone import 'bribery' case: Delhi court grants bail to senior executive of corporate group

Drone import 'bribery' case: Delhi court grants bail to senior executive of corporate group

Special Judge Chhavi Kapoor was hearing Mathur’s plea seeking relief. The accused had been earlier remanded to five days...

Thane court acquits three persons in 2015 human trafficking case

Thane court acquits three persons in 2015 human trafficking case

Additional sessions judge D S Deshmukh acquitted Radheshyam alias Raju Brajkishore Nath, Kamala Ajay Dadhich, and Geeta ...

Thane MCOCA court acquits robbery case accused, cites identity doubt

Thane MCOCA court acquits robbery case accused, cites identity doubt

Special MCOCA Court Judge V G Mohite acquitted the accused, Bakar alias Babar Akram Alli, a resident of Bidar in Karnata...

Man sentenced to death for burning woman alive after rape attempt in Mathura

Man sentenced to death for burning woman alive after rape attempt in Mathura

District Judge Vikas Kumar convicted the accused, Umesh Kumar, in the case on April 30 and pronounced the sentence on Tu...

Thane court acquits three in 2021 murder case; says prosecution failed to prove guilt

Thane court acquits three in 2021 murder case; says prosecution failed to prove guilt

While the medical evidence confirmed homicidal death, it was insufficient to link the accused to the crime, Principal Di...

Top executives of pvt firms among 7 held in 'overtime payment' scam in Chhattisgarh

Top executives of pvt firms among 7 held in 'overtime payment' scam in Chhattisgarh

Businessman Anwar Dhebar, elder brother of Raipur's former mayor Aijaz Dhebar, was apprehended in the case in February. ...

Private firms' top executives among 7 held in 'overtime' scam at Chhattisgarh govt body

Private firms' top executives among 7 held in 'overtime' scam at Chhattisgarh govt body

Businessman Anwar Dhebar, elder brother of Raipur ex-Mayor Aijaz Dhebar, was apprehended in the case in February 2026. A...

Delhi court sentences 3 men to 4 yrs imprisonment for defrauding IDBI bank in 2009

Delhi court sentences 3 men to 4 yrs imprisonment for defrauding IDBI bank in 2009

Special Judge Sudhanshu Kaushik was hearing arguments on sentencing after the private company's ex-officials, Sumit Chat...

Delhi court grants bail to ex-official accused of diverting funds from India’s Geneva Mission

Delhi court grants bail to ex-official accused of diverting funds from India’s Geneva Mission

Special Judge Vijeta Singh Rawat was hearing the third regular bail application of Mohit, who joined the Permanent Missi...

33 years on, Gujarat court convicts 12 in arms landing case linked to Dawood; 10 get 5-year RI

33 years on, Gujarat court convicts 12 in arms landing case linked to Dawood; 10 get 5-year RI

The case pertains to a conspiracy hatched by Ibrahim, later designated as an international terrorist, and his associates...

Speech-and-hearing impaired man gets life imprisonment for sexually assaulting minor girl in Gondia

Speech-and-hearing impaired man gets life imprisonment for sexually assaulting minor girl in Gondia

Special Judge (POCSO Act) and Additional Sessions Judge K N Gautam sentenced Laxman alias Mukka Isaru Bramhankar (47) to...

Shirdi cops take custody of 'godman' Kharat in cheating case filed by Ahilyanagar farmer

Shirdi cops take custody of 'godman' Kharat in cheating case filed by Ahilyanagar farmer

The case was registered on the complaint of farmer Raosaheb Nanasaheb Gondkar (55), a resident of Pimpalwadi in Shirdi i...

Allegations grave in nature: Delhi court denies bail to Al-Falah chairman in ED case

Allegations grave in nature: Delhi court denies bail to Al-Falah chairman in ED case

Additional Sessions Judge Sheetal Chaudhary Pradhan rejected the regular bail plea, saying the accused is a "central fig...

Gujarat court convicts 12 in 1993 arms landing case linked to Dawood; 10 of them get 5-year RI

Gujarat court convicts 12 in 1993 arms landing case linked to Dawood; 10 of them get 5-year RI

Special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act court Judge RP Mogera convicted 12 accused, and sentenced 1...

Prosecution failed to prove its case: Delhi court acquits man, family members in dowry death case

Prosecution failed to prove its case: Delhi court acquits man, family members in dowry death case

Additional Sessions Judge Shivani Chauhan passed the order during the hearing of the case against Tanuj Behuria, his bro...

Systematic plan to brainwash victim: Court on denying pre-arrest bail to Nida Khan in TCS case

Systematic plan to brainwash victim: Court on denying pre-arrest bail to Nida Khan in TCS case

"The magnitude of the offence is truly multi-dimensional and multi-layered, and the custodial interrogation was required...

Delhi court stays FIR against Abhijit Iyer Mitra over derogatory posts on women journalists

Delhi court stays FIR against Abhijit Iyer Mitra over derogatory posts on women journalists

Additional Sessions Judge Purushottam Pathak was hearing a plea moved by Mitra seeking a stay on a magistrate order date...

Thane man acquitted in kidnap & rape case; court cites victim's consent

Thane man acquitted in kidnap & rape case; court cites victim's consent

As the victim was a major, she was competent to make her own decisions, Special POCSO Court Judge Ruby U Malvankar said ...

Deeply shocked: Court raps Delhi Police for arresting murder accused from Bihar without transit remand

Deeply shocked: Court raps Delhi Police for arresting murder accused from Bihar without transit remand

Noting that Mukesh was apprehended in Darbhanga and brought to Delhi, the court asked the investigating officer (IO) to ...

Jaipur court grants divorce to man citing wife's conduct as mental cruelty

Jaipur court grants divorce to man citing wife's conduct as mental cruelty

According to the husband's counsel, D S Shekhawat, the petitioner sought divorce alleging mental cruelty, claiming that ...

LeT operative sentenced to 7-year RI in Bengaluru prison radicalisation case: NIA

LeT operative sentenced to 7-year RI in Bengaluru prison radicalisation case: NIA

The Bengaluru special court has sentenced Vikram Kumar alias Chota Usman to seven years' rigorous imprisonment (RI), a s...

Firing at Salman Khan's house was attempt to kill him: Actor's bodyguard tells court

Firing at Salman Khan's house was attempt to kill him: Actor's bodyguard tells court

Recounting the incident, the bodyguard, also the complainant in the case, last month testified that he reported for his ...

Delhi court denies bail to Al Falah University group chairman in money laundering case

Delhi court denies bail to Al Falah University group chairman in money laundering case

Additional Sessions Judge Sheetal Chaudhary Pradhan made the decision after hearing arguments from both Siddiqui and the...

UP: Hathras court adjourns hearing in defamation case against Rahul Gandhi till May 13

UP: Hathras court adjourns hearing in defamation case against Rahul Gandhi till May 13

The complaint was filed in an MP-MLA court over Gandhi's alleged statement describing certain youths as accused in the c...

Ex-IRS officer appeals against 3-month jail to CBI officers, seeks harsher sentence

Ex-IRS officer appeals against 3-month jail to CBI officers, seeks harsher sentence

On April 28, Judicial Magistrate Shashank Nandan Bhatt sentenced retired police officer V K Pandey and Ramneesh to three...

Nashik court denies pre-arrest bail to TCS employee Nida Khan; custody of 4 extended till May 5

Nashik court denies pre-arrest bail to TCS employee Nida Khan; custody of 4 extended till May 5

The offence is a serious one, Nida Khan is one of the prime accused and therefore her custodial interrogation is necessa...

UP court rejects plea seeking Rahul Gandhi's voice sample in defamation case

UP court rejects plea seeking Rahul Gandhi's voice sample in defamation case

The plea, filed by BJP leader Vijay Mishra through his counsel Santosh Kumar Pandey, had sought Gandhi's voice sample fo...

4-year-old girl sexually assaulted, murdered in Pune district; 65-year-old man arrested

4-year-old girl sexually assaulted, murdered in Pune district; 65-year-old man arrested

The accused, who works as a labourer, allegedly lured the girl with the promise of food on Friday and took her to a catt...