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HC seeks Delhi govt, Centre's stand on plea to constitute Delhi Waqf Board

HC seeks Delhi govt, Centre's stand on plea to constitute Delhi Waqf Board

Justice Anish Dayal issued notice to the governments on a petition seeking directions to them to complete the statutory ...

Man sentenced to 10 years in jail for attempted murder in Thane

Man sentenced to 10 years in jail for attempted murder in Thane

According to the prosecution, Shaikh got into a fight with Hussein Khan on March 4, 2025, over some financial matters an...

31 years on, six sentenced to life for witchcraft killing in Assam

31 years on, six sentenced to life for witchcraft killing in Assam

The six convicts, all residents of the same village, were identified as Soneswar Boro, Jungle Boro, Suraj Boro, Kandura ...

Court grants bail to TISS student, says possessing books is no proof of 'Maoist mindset'

Court grants bail to TISS student, says possessing books is no proof of 'Maoist mindset'

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Dattatray Khedekar said that prima facie there was no incriminating material agains...

Sambhal court seeks police report on complaint against Jairam Ramesh over 2009 Hindu deities remark

Sambhal court seeks police report on complaint against Jairam Ramesh over 2009 Hindu deities remark

The complaint was filed by Hindu Shakti Dal national president Simran Gupta before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistr...

Chhattisgarh: Man sentenced to death for rape, murder of 6-year-old niece

Chhattisgarh: Man sentenced to death for rape, murder of 6-year-old niece

The accused, whose name was not disclosed to protect the victim's identity, was also sentenced to five years' rigorous i...

SC collegium approves elevation of 8 judicial officers as Delhi HC judges

SC collegium approves elevation of 8 judicial officers as Delhi HC judges

The eight judicial officers are Gurvinder Pal Singh, Nivedita Anil Sharma, Nisha Sahay Saxena, Sanjay Sharma-I, Bharat P...

Palghar hospital violence: Police custody of suspended Sena functionary Gharat extended till Sep 13

Palghar hospital violence: Police custody of suspended Sena functionary Gharat extended till Sep 13

Violence broke out at the hospital over a dispute concerning billing, diagnostic procedures, and the discharge of injure...

Odisha: Woman gets life imprisonment for strangling husband with mobile charger cable

Odisha: Woman gets life imprisonment for strangling husband with mobile charger cable

On the basis of the evidence, the court sentenced Mamata to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh....

Three men in UP's Jaunpur awarded life sentence for murdering farmer

Three men in UP's Jaunpur awarded life sentence for murdering farmer

According to the prosecution, Bhupendra Singh, a resident of Sandaha village under Sarai Khwaja police station, was retu...

Coal lock case against Nippon Denro Ispat Ltd: Court accepts CBI's closure report

Coal lock case against Nippon Denro Ispat Ltd: Court accepts CBI's closure report

The agency's report had said that after the probe, no offence of conspiracy, cheating and abuse of official positions wa...

Youth gets 25 years RI for sexually assaulting minor in Keralam’s Idukki

Youth gets 25 years RI for sexually assaulting minor in Keralam’s Idukki

Idukki Fast Track Special Court for POCSO Act cases Judge Nobel D S sentenced R Amal of Anayadi in Sooranad, Kollam, to ...

BRICS keeps cops away from court; lawyer seeks urgent hearing of bail plea, judge warns him

BRICS keeps cops away from court; lawyer seeks urgent hearing of bail plea, judge warns him

The hearing witnessed a heated exchange between the two and the judge warned the lawyer of possible contempt proceedings...

Custodial death of temple guard: Court remands 4 police officials, including DSP, on murder charge

Custodial death of temple guard: Court remands 4 police officials, including DSP, on murder charge

The V Additional District and Sessions Court, Madurai, framed a murder charge under Section 103 of the Bharatiya Nyaya S...

Independent judiciary can't function without ethical, fearless Bar: Justice V Kameswar Rao

Independent judiciary can't function without ethical, fearless Bar: Justice V Kameswar Rao

Justice Rao said the Bench and the Bar were not opposing institutions but partners in administration of justice, and all...

IRCTC hotels money laundering case: Delhi court orders framing of charges against Lalu, 8 others

IRCTC hotels money laundering case: Delhi court orders framing of charges against Lalu, 8 others

Pronouncing the substantive portions of the order orally, the judge said the exacting standards of finding the criminal ...

28-year-old gets life sentence for wife's murder

28-year-old gets life sentence for wife's murder

Additional Sessions Judge R V Tamhanekar passed the order on August 31. A copy of the order became available on Wednesda...

Delhi court orders framing of money laundering charges against Lalu Prasad, son Tejashwi

Delhi court orders framing of money laundering charges against Lalu Prasad, son Tejashwi

On Thursday, Special Judge Vishal Gogne said there was a "strong suspicion" against seven persons for the offence of mon...

SC bins plea challenging Mumbai University's decision to reduce intake of students in law colleges

SC bins plea challenging Mumbai University's decision to reduce intake of students in law colleges

A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant upheld the Bombay High Court order which had rejected th...

Probe underway, Google details sought: Police to court on Dhruv Rathee's 'Hindu deities' video

Probe underway, Google details sought: Police to court on Dhruv Rathee's 'Hindu deities' video

This comes as police filed a status report before Chief Judicial Magistrate Niharika Kumar Sharma and informed the court...

Assault on doctors: Thane police file chargesheet against Shiv Sena corporator, 4 others

Assault on doctors: Thane police file chargesheet against Shiv Sena corporator, 4 others

On July 6, Mhatre, a corporator of the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation, and the other accused gathered at Shastri ...

Justice A Y Kogje sworn in as Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh HC

Justice A Y Kogje sworn in as Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh HC

The swearing-in ceremony began and concluded with the singing of the national song, Vande Mataram, and the national anth...

Justice Alpesh Yeshvant Kogje sworn in as Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh HC

Justice Alpesh Yeshvant Kogje sworn in as Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh HC

MP Governor Mangubhai Patel administered the oath of office to the newly appointed Chief Justice at a function in the Lo...

Thane court acquits man in rape case, says relationship consensual and victim an adult

Thane court acquits man in rape case, says relationship consensual and victim an adult

The accused and the victim were in a romantic relationship, Special POCSO Court Judge Premal S Vithalani (POCSO Act) not...

Chandigarh court restrains Majithia, others from posting bribery allegations against CM Mann's wife

Chandigarh court restrains Majithia, others from posting bribery allegations against CM Mann's wife

The court, however, declined at this stage to order removal or deletion of the posts, videos and photographs cited by th...

Jharkhand court sentences 3 brothers to imprisonment for narcotics trade

Jharkhand court sentences 3 brothers to imprisonment for narcotics trade

In the police chargesheet, 99.600 kg of poppy husk was seized from Pun Yadav's house, and 40.500 kg of poppy husk was re...

Court takes cognizance of chargesheet on 'godman' Kharat in money laundering case, summons accused

Court takes cognizance of chargesheet on 'godman' Kharat in money laundering case, summons accused

The court said the material depicted that Kharat, assisted by co-accused, lured people in "a consistent and systematic c...

Court grants bail to 5 accused including ex-CEO of DJB Udit Rai in corruption case

Court grants bail to 5 accused including ex-CEO of DJB Udit Rai in corruption case

Special Judge Dig Vinay Singh of the Rouse Avenue Courts granted bail to Rai, Ankit Srivastava, a former DJB contractual...

Ballia court imposes fine on Pawan Singh for skipping hearing in wife's maintenance case

Ballia court imposes fine on Pawan Singh for skipping hearing in wife's maintenance case

Pawan Singh's lawyer Harivansh Singh told PTI that a hearing was scheduled before Judge Kamalapati Prajapati on Wednesda...

Chargesheet alone cannot prove rash driving: Delhi tribunal

Chargesheet alone cannot prove rash driving: Delhi tribunal

The tribunal found significant contradictions in the testimony of a bus marshal who was presented as a witness to the ac...

Delhi building collapse: Two-day police custody for owner's son, PG operator, contractor

Delhi building collapse: Two-day police custody for owner's son, PG operator, contractor

The city police had sought three-day custody of the accused to question them in connection with the Sunday incident. The...

Delhi court acquits man in illicit liquor case, says lack of witnesses casts doubt on recovery

Delhi court acquits man in illicit liquor case, says lack of witnesses casts doubt on recovery

Judicial Magistrate Vikas Madaan was hearing a case against Baldev Singh, who was accused in a case registered under Sec...

Delhi building collapse: Police seek 3-day custody of owner's son, PG operator, building contractor

Delhi building collapse: Police seek 3-day custody of owner's son, PG operator, building contractor

Gupta was produced before the court after the completion of his two-day police custody. The two others were produced a...

MP court sentences former executive engineer to 5 years of RI in 2002 disproportionate assets case

MP court sentences former executive engineer to 5 years of RI in 2002 disproportionate assets case

In an order passed on Tuesday, First Additional Sessions Judge and Special Court Judge Rajkumar Chauhan also imposed a f...

Sub-registrar, clerk, stamp vendor sentenced to 2 years in prison in bribery case in Latur

Sub-registrar, clerk, stamp vendor sentenced to 2 years in prison in bribery case in Latur

Latur, Sept 9 A court in Maharashtra’s Latur has sentenced a former sub-registrar, a junior clerk and a private stamp ve...

Justice Bhati sworn in as chief justice of J-K, Ladakh high court

Justice Bhati sworn in as chief justice of J-K, Ladakh high court

Saxena is currently holding additional charge as LG of Jammu and Kashmir as incumbent Manoj Sinha is on leave. ...