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Gurugram bar association boycotts court of magistrate alleging 'mistreatment' of lawyers
According to the lawyers, on Wednesday, a senior advocate was requesting the court to grant a new date for a hearing, ci...
Sajjan Kumar dies on day SC was to hear his three-week parole plea
Kumar, 84, was brought to Safdarjung Hospital around 11 am in an altered state of consciousness and was immediately admi...
Rajasthan: 17-year-old boy convicted of rape in Kota, gets 20-year jail
The minor has been awarded the punishment for abducting and raping a 15-year-old girl, a Class 9 student, in September 2...
Delhi court acquits man in Rs 7.5 lakh fake currency case
The court said that a crucial police witness who acted as a decoy customer said during his examination-in-chief that he ...
Willing to settle defamation case filed by Sanjay Raut, Narayan Rane tells court
Raut, who is also a Rajya Sabha member, had filed a criminal defamation complaint against the former Union minister for ...
Advocates protest outside BCI office alleging irregularities, demand chairman's resignation
The demonstration saw members of the legal fraternity raising several demands, including the implementation of an Advoca...
2024 gangrape of minor girl: Vadodara court convicts 5 persons; sentencing likely on Aug 25
The court convicted the five accused on charges of gangrape, destruction of evidence and dacoity, among others, under th...
Tarun Tejpal moves SC against his conviction in sexual assault case
Earlier, the Goa government moved the top court seeking enhanced sentence for the former editor of Tehelka, contending t...
Ex-SP MLC Kamlesh Pathak, 9 others sentenced to life in Auraiya double murder case
The complainant alleged that a dispute had arisen over possession of the Panchmukhi temple located in the locality and t...
Hyderabad court sentences 33 accused in POCSO, human trafficking case
On July 17, 2015, one victim lodged a complaint stating that when she was engaged in agricultural work a person known to...
DJB corruption case: Delhi court sends Satyendar Jain, 4 others to judicial custody
Special Judge Dig Vinay Singh sent Jain, former Delhi Jal Board CEO Udit Prakash Rai, and private persons Nagendra Yadav...
100 murder cases shifted from UP judge's court after he awards 22 death sentences in 4 months
Government counsel Kuldeep Kumar told PTI that the cases, involving offences punishable with death or life imprisonment,...
Thane court sentences man to 15 years in prison in drugs case; co-accused gets 1 year; 1 acquitted
Additional Public Prosecutor Vibhavari Y Pathak told the court that a team from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence ...
Two women get 10 year-RI in 2022 Thane sex trafficking case
The court also imposed a collective fine of Rs 6,000 on the convicts, identified as Jeenat Rehman Shaikh (39) and Saeeda...
UP: Man gets life imprisonment for 2016 murder in Mainpuri
According to the prosecution, on 11 March, 2016, Ramvir and Rajdeo took Atul to a tehravi feast at Nagendra Bharti's hou...
Delhi court sends Satyendar Jain, 4 others to judicial custody in corruption case
The court also issued notice to the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) on a bail plea of Jain, which was moved by his counsel ...
Man gets six-month RI for derogatory remarks against Dr B R Ambedkar
Special Judge Y P Manathkar for cases under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act on ...
Delhi court acquits husband, in-laws in dowry death case over lack of proof of cruelty
Additional Sessions Judge Pooja Talwar acquitted Rohit Kumar, and his parents Sunita and Vijay Kumar in the 2016 death o...
National medical body questions in SC adequacy of NTA's measures to curb exam paper leaks
FAIMA, which filed its response to an affidavit filed by NTA, contended that the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfa...
Delhi court reserves order on ACB plea seeking judicial custody of Satyendar Jain
During the proceedings, counsel for Jain said that after the FIR was registered "way back on May 10, 2024", his client w...
Delhi court denies bail to man accused of Rs 10.4 crore impersonation fraud
In an order dated August 17, the court said, “There is a possibility that accused/applicant might abscond and can commit...
Arrest warrant against TMC MP Mahua Moitra for not honouring court summons in hate speech case
Noting that she had failed to appear despite repeated summonses, the 3rd judicial magistrate at the Krishnanagar Court o...
UGC-NET June 2026 exam to be conducted again in September: Centre to Delhi HC
Taking note of the submission of Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, Justice Jasmeet Singh dis...
Delhi court acquits man in dowry death case, says suspicion cannot replace proof
Additional Sessions Judge Anuj Agrawal acquitted Anil Kumar of offences under Sections 498A and 304B of the IPC, saying ...
SP leader among 14 sentenced to life imprisonment in Raebareli murder case
According to the prosecution, Aditya Singh, a resident of Sikandarpur in Maharajganj, had gone with his friends to a roa...
Man sentenced to life for sister-in-law's murder committed at 16
The special court in Bahraich convicted the accused of murder, criminal conspiracy and causing disappearance of evidence...
ACB seeks 14-day judicial custody of former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain
In its submissions to Special Judge Dig Vinay Singh, the ACB sought the police custody of only one of the total six accu...
Former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain, 5 others produced in court in DJB 'scam' case
The other accused are Ankit Srivastava, a former contractual consultant with the DJB, and private persons Nagendra Yadav...
Senior Advocate Pradeep Rai elected SC Bar Association president
Rai secured 822 votes in the presidential election. The other candidates were Anupam Lal Das, who polled 451 votes, Adis...
Court sentences man to life imprisonment for killing pregnant worker to conceal affair
To conceal the affair and prevent his reputation from being tarnished, the accused decided to kill Ambili, and for that ...
UP: Kushinagar man gets life term for killing wife, son by setting them on fire
Additional District Government Counsel K K Pandey said the incident took place on the night of June 23, 2022, in Farad M...
Jharkhand exam stir: Govt cancels 44 recruitment tests, students' protests on
The decision, announced after a cabinet meeting on Monday and followed by eight notifications issued late Tuesday night,...
SC collegium approves proposal for appointment of four advocates as Orissa HC judges
"The Supreme Court collegium in its meeting held on August 18, 2026 has approved the proposal for appointment of the fol...
Goa govt moves SC seeking enhanced sentence for Tarun Tejpal
On August 6, the Bombay High Court convicted Tejpal of rape and sentenced him to rigorous imprisonment for 10 years, ove...
After 15 years in jail, Maoist leader Azad acquitted in Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati murder case
Azad was acquitted of the charges of murder due to lack of evidence against him. With this development, the Maoist leade...
In HC, JSSC admits unauthorised interference in marks computation of Madhyamik Acharya exam
The commission also acknowledged that there had been unauthorised interference in the computation of marks, prompting it...