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Pune Police withdraw Freedom of Religion Act in 2 cases after realising it is not yet in force
Police first invoked the Act in an offence registered at Fursungi police station on August 5, where a 22-year-old man is...
2022 Amravati pharmacist murder: NIA court rejects bail plea of accused
Abdul Salim, the applicant, (prima facie) played an active role in giving support to the actual assailants and helped th...
Tribunal awards Rs 51 lakh compensation to kin of vegetable vendor killed in 2023 road crash
Tribunal's Presiding Officer R V Mohite, in an order on Monday, directed truck owner Rafik Fakir Mohammad Malim (Charbhu...
UP court sentences man to life imprisonment for killing two in car attack
Additional Sessions Judge (First) Rinku Jindal convicted the main accused, identified as Subhash, in the case arising fr...
I will find a way to vanish: Twisha Sharma's desperate texts form backbone of CBI chargesheet
In its 31-page chargesheet accompanied by voluminous documents, the CBI said investigators are awaiting the extraction a...
UP: Man gets life sentence for elder brother's murder over land dispute
Additional District and Sessions Judge Ravi Kumar Diwakar also slapped a fine of Rs 1 lakh on the convict, Sukhpal, afte...
Delhi court flags 'compromised' police probe, grants bail to man in Rs 20 lakh extortion case
Additional Sessions Judge Hargurvarinder Singh Jaggi was hearing the bail plea of Anup Singh alias Annu Sejwal, who was ...
Woman fined for lodging false case of rape of seven-year-old daughter by neighbour
The Rajasthan Police said on Tuesday that the woman alleged that her daughter was guarding a field when their neighbour ...
Delhi court grants 4 weeks' interim bail to ex-DGHS arrested in health scam
Her counsel had earlier moved the plea seeking interim relief on the ground that Aggarwal, 61, suffers from age-related ...
Delhi court slams Gujarat cops for 'hanging' minor boy as 'bait' to make father surrender
Additional Sessions Judge Parveen Singh said the officers’ duty was to search for the minor’s father, who was wanted in ...
Dr Pramesh to be chief guest at TISS convocation; CJI's calendar is full, institute informed
Earlier, Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant was to be the chief guest at the convocation scheduled for August 2, ...
'History-sheeters' infiltrated July 20 protest, 240 cops injured: Delhi Police tells SC
"More than 240 police officers have suffered injuries; the investigation will take into consideration the grievances of ...
T'gana: Man gets lifer for killing his Congolese wife
On the intervening night of July 3-4, 2016, following a heated quarrel, the accused allegedly throttled his wife to deat...
Eleven years on, Thane man gets life imprisonment for wife's murder over leg massage delay
When Waghmare demanded that his wife, Vaishali, massage his legs, she asked him to wait until she finished cleaning the ...
Mahatma Gandhi was not immediately rushed to hospital after shot by Godse: Savarkar's grandnephew
Meanwhile, Satyaki's lawyer Sangram Kolhatkar moved an application before the court seeking to obtain Rahul Gandhi’s voi...
Somnath Bharti case hearing deferred in UP's Sultanpur, next arguments on August 22
The apex court recently lifted the stay, following which Bharti was summoned at the previous hearing for proceedings rel...
Mumbai court rejects CA's discharge plea in Ponzi scam run by son
The order highlighted that Jain allowed his bank account to be used to divert depositors' funds, which amounts to abetme...
Delhi court refuses FIR over alleged harassment of girls at tuition centre
Additional Sessions Judge Parveen Singh dismissed a revision petition challenging a trial court's refusal to direct poli...
Ex-model Twisha Sharma's husband, mother-in-law accused of suicide abetment in CBI chargesheet
According to Twisha's family lawyer, Ankur Pandey, the CBI has submitted sufficient evidence along with the chargesheet....
Three get life term for killing man, son after abduction over money dispute in UP's Shamli
A complaint was lodged by Suresh Devi, mother of Bhupendra, against Vikrant, his brother Arjun, their father Virendra an...
Delhi tribunal awards Rs 31.7 lakh to woman whose arm was amputated after road accident
In an order dated August 7, the Delhi Motor Accident Claims Tribunal said, “This tribunal finds that there is sufficient...
Delhi court rejects bail of ex-DGHS procurement officer in corruption case
Ranga was arrested following an investigation into alleged large-scale irregularities in procurement by the Central Proc...
Lawyers' strike postpones hearing in Rahul Gandhi defamation case, next hearing on Aug 21
The defamation complaint relates to remarks allegedly made by Gandhi in Bengaluru against Union Home Minister Amit Shah ...
326 MPs, 14 CMs have criminal cases against them: SC told
The senior lawyer also filed an analysis of reports filed by various high courts, except Uttar Pradesh since no report w...
Scourge of dowry deaths still prevalent in Indian society: Delhi court
The judge said the offence was aggravated because "not only one life but two lives have been lost" due to the conduct of...
Man sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment in Hamirpur for raping minor
The incident had taken place on September 25, 2024. According to the prosecution, the girl had gone to a shop when the a...
Delhi court says lack of CCTV, medical evidence no ground to discharge man in cruelty case
The court said that at the stage of framing charges, it was only required to see whether the material on record disclose...
Bombay HC clerk typing test glitches: Aspirants halt protest, demand re-exam
Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) convenor Abhijeet Dipke, who joined the protest on Sunday, termed the exam glitches a "syste...
In four months, UP judge hands down 22 death sentences in 10 cases
Four people were sentenced to death on April 28, one on May 20, and two on June 20. In July, one received a death senten...
CJP's Dipke joins protest as candidates claim glitches during online Bombay HC clerk typing test
Dipke alleged that several candidates were declared failed without their fault and joined the demonstration demanding th...
Kerala man acquitted in POCSO case over alleged sexual assault of minor daughter
Special Court for Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act judge Bilkul G R acquitted Saji Kuttappan after findin...
Tribunal awards Rs 23.83 lakh compensation to man who lost arm in road accident
According to the claim, Jagan Rama Jadhav was riding a scooter on the Kalyan-Murbad road when a truck crashed into his t...
Don't just adapt but lead in determining use of technology to reshape legal system: CJI to NLUs
Addressing the Vice Chancellors' Conclave 2.0 at National Law University, Jodhpur, the CJI said that the legal professio...
Pune court remands 'drug kingpin' Virender Singh Basoya to NCB custody till Aug 21
The NCB's Mumbai unit took over the investigation and identified Basoya as the alleged mastermind who coordinated activi...
BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra apologises to law students over NALSAR row
In a statement issued on Independence Day, Mishra said recent developments had caused concern among students and express...
Delhi tribunal awards Rs 2.92 crore compensation to man disabled in 2020 road accident
Presiding Officer Abhilash Malhotra was hearing the claim petition of Nilmani Chauhan, who suffered 88 per cent permanen...