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Judges appointed to Chhattisgarh, Gauhati high courts
According to the Union law ministry, three judicial officers have been elevated as judges of the Chhattisgarh High Court...
Four drug peddlers convicted in two separate NDPS cases in J-K's Doda
In the second case, registered in 2021 under the NDPS Act at Gandoh, the Sessions Court, Bhaderwah, convicted Abdul Qayo...
‘Court not mere post office to frame charges’: 7 accused of arson during 2019 protest against Pak
Second Additional Sessions Judge Anoop Kumar Sharma also said that mere presence in a large gathering could not by itsel...
Maoist leader Rao, wife get 7-year jail term for 2015 attack on cops in Kanker; 3 others get 5 years
Rao and his wife Kange once carried rewards of Rs 25 lakh and Rs 8 lakh, respectively, on their heads and their convicti...
Two held in Mumbai for entering BKC mall with firearm, fake PMO ID card
The arrests of Rohan Parikh (24) and Dilip Kunde (49) followed an incident on Monday evening at the Jio World Plaza, whe...
Activist-influencer Santosh Pandit sent in 14-day judicial custody
As per the complaint filed by Sarika Kamble, a conservancy worker with the Pune Municipal Corporation, Pandit uploaded v...
NEET protest: Petitioner urges SC to fix accountability for use of force against women protesters
The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)-led march to Parliament in Delhi on July 20 had seen clashes between protesters and secu...
NIA files chargesheet against Van Dyke, others; does not invoke UAPA, seeks further probe
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) chargesheet, filed before Special Judge Prashant Sharma, accused the seven of of...
Ballistic evidence 'fatal blow' to prosecution case: Delhi court acquits 2 in 2018 shooting
Additional Sessions Judge Hargurvarinder Singh Jaggi acquitted Anuj Gulliya alias Annu and Aash Mohammad alias Ashu of c...
Security breach case: NIA files chargesheet against Van Dyke, other foreigners; does not invoke UAPA
The NIA had arrested Van Dyke on March 13, along with six Ukrainian nationals -- Kaminskyi Viktor, Hurba Petro, Slyviak ...
Prajwal Revanna sent to two-day police custody over alleged mobile phone use in jail
The court remanded Revanna and Rai to police custody for two days to facilitate further investigation into the alleged u...
UP: Father, son among four sentenced to life in 11-year-old murder case
Around 6.45 am on June 14, Brijraj, son Avnish and two others allegedly entered Arvesh's house, brandishing firearms and...
Couple sentenced to life imprisonment for killing businessman in 2022
Additional District and Sessions Judge Kamal Lohia on Monday also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 each on the convicts Jasmi...
UP: Juvenile gets 25-year jail for raping minor in Ballia
According to Special Public Prosecutor Vimal Kumar Ram, Judge Pratham Kant directed the superintendent of the Special Ho...
15 years on, man gets 10-year RI for raping minor girl
The victim, hailing from Dombivli in Maharashtra's Thane district, had voluntarily accompanied the accused, Azhar alias ...
Ramdev's associate Balkrishna acquitted in forged documents case
The court of the Special Judicial Magistrate (CBI) also acquitted Naresh Chandra Dwivedi, a co-accused charged with prov...
Delhi building collapse: PG operator, wife sent to judicial custody, son gets 2-day police remand
Hariram Gupta, 81, and his wife, Urmila Gupta, 75, were sent to 14 days of judicial custody, while their 52-year-old son...
Shiv Sena Palghar city chief Gharat held over attack on hospital staffers; suspended from party
Inspector Kishor Mahanubhav of the Palghar Police Station said after arrest, Gharat was produced before a local magistra...
Boy killed in car accident: Court denies bail to woman; was not talking on phone, claims accused
She only used her mobile phone to call her husband after the "unfortunate incident" to inform him about it, her plea sai...
Aviation firm files Rs 3 cr defamation suit against Nora Fatehi for ‘toy plane’ remark
According to the suit filed by Dunes Aviation, Fatehi recorded videos inside a Cessna Citation CJ2 aircraft during a Mum...
Ex-bureaucrat moves Delhi court seeking copy of FIR on posts involving EC
Joshi, a former controller of communications in the Department of Telecommunications, had been brought to the Special Ce...
Man gets death penalty in 2018 dowry-death case; UP court's 23rd capital punishment in 4 months
The death sentence was awarded in an eight-year-old case involving the killing of Nadeem's wife Shehzadi (23), who was a...
Two siblings held for forging Guv office documents to get rail ticket reservation denied bail
Additional Sessions Judge S B Dige, in an order passed on September 3, held that it was a "serious offence" and that gra...
Judge vs Judge: SC's Justice Sandeep Mehta writes fresh letter to CJI against Rajasthan HC judge
Justice Mehta had earlier written three letters on August 2, 10 and 17, accusing Sharma, the then acting chief justice o...
Delhi court defers framing of charges in ED's IRCTC cases against Lalu Yadav
The court staff of the judge, who has been transferred from the Rouse Avenue courts to the Dwarka district court as Addi...
Hindutva influencer Bhardwaj sent to 14-day judicial custody in assault case
Bhardwaj was detained in Bulandshahr on Friday, hours after the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) staged a protest outside the...
YouTuber Ajeet Bharti denied pre-arrest bail in SC-ST Act case
During the proceedings, Bharti's advocate contended that he did not make any casteist slur and had responded to a grave ...
Justice Sanjay Kumar Agrawal sworn in as Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court
Justice Agrawal, who previously served as a judge of the Chhattisgarh High Court, was appointed as Chief Justice of Raja...
Hindutva influencer Bhardwaj sent to one-day judicial custody
On Saturday, Bhardwaj was produced at the residence of Additional Sessions Judge Saurabh Pratap Singh Laler, who allowed...
Ram temple donation theft: Court extends judicial custody of 8 accused
The eight accused, who were associated with the temple's donation-counting process, were arrested after an FIR was lodge...
UP court sentences man to life imprisonment for raping woman
Special Judge (SC/ST Act) Govind Mohan also imposed a fine of Rs 40,000 on the convict, Kamlesh Yadav, said government a...
Mohali rape survivor appears before court, opposes police cancellation report
She had lodged a complaint of rape against Gurwinder Singh alias Guri Chahal and the FIR was registered on May 1 at the ...
Juvenile justice system should be fair, child-centric: Justice Sindhu Sharma
Addressing the annual consultation on the Juvenile Justice Act, Justice Sindhu Sharma emphasised that a child in conflic...
Nation developing without regard to apparatus sustaining forests will maim future generations: CJI
Addressing the gathering at a session on judicial leadership in ecological governance and the advancement of sustainable...
2013 Jhiram Valley Maoist attack: Court convicts all 10 accused; sentencing on Sept 16
The attack in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district on May 25, 2013, had wiped out almost the entire top leadership of the Cong...
SC announces monthly lecture series on law, justice & legal education; proposes annual award
On the occasion of Teacher's Day, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant announced on Saturday that the top court is set to l...