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Twisha case accused and ex-judge Giribala seeks safe place in jail; wants media trial protection

A court in Bhopal remanded late model Twisha Sharma's husband Samarth Singh and mother-in-law Giribala Singh, both accus...

Justice Meenakshi Rai appointed new chief justice of Patna High Court

She will assume charge following the retirement of incumbent Chief Justice Sangam Kumar Sahoo on June 4....

Money laundering case: Mumbai court summons former executive chairperson of Religare Enterprises

Besides Saluja, the special court for the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) cases issued a notice and summons to...

Delhi court discharges 4 in MCOCA case against alleged robbery syndicate

The judge said although the accused had common involvement in several cases and could be inferred to be working together...

Saket building collapse: Delhi court sends owner to three-day police custody

Seeking custody, the police told the court that Sejwal was the owner of the building and custodial interrogation was req...

Doctor convicted in wife's dowry death over Volkswagen car, Rs 50 lakh demand

In an order dated May 30, the court said, "The deceased was subjected to cruelty by the accused by pressuring her to mee...

2020 Delhi riots: Court acquits five in Shiv Vihar charred body case

According to the prosecution, a mob attacked Anwar and his brother Saleem's properties in Shiv Vihar on February 25, 202...

Twisha Sharma death case: Her husband and mother-in-law get judicial custody till June 16

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) produced Samarth Singh and his mother, a retired district judge, in the court ...

Husband, mother-in-law among 3 sent to 10-year RI for dowry harassment

The convicts were identified as Amir Khan, his mother Nasrin and his brother Sonu alias Firoz. The case pertains to an i...

NEET paper leak: Delhi court extends judicial custody of 5 accused till June 15

Meanwhile, counsel for accused Yadav said that the court had allowed his client's plea seeking books to prepare for the ...

Twisha Sharma case: Hubby Samarth Singh and mother-in-law remanded in judicial custody

The CBI produced Samarth Singh and his mother, a retired district judge, in the court of Shobhna Bhalave, after completi...

CJI administers oath of office to five new SC judges; strength rises to 37

Justice Chandrashekhar was part of the three-member committee constituted by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to probe the gro...

CJI administers oath of office to five new SC judges, strength rises to 37

The Centre on Monday cleared the appointment of Justice Nagu, Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Justic...

Five new judges appointed to SC will be sworn in on Tuesday

The Centre on Monday cleared the appointment of senior advocate Venkita Subramani Mohana; Justice Shree Chandrashekhar, ...

Uphaar tragedy: Delhi court allows CBI to withdraw plea for closure of case against ex-IPS officer

In April, the agency's bid to close the case against Kanth came under judicial scrutiny after Chief Judicial Magistrate ...

Court allows CBI to arrest former Reliance ADAG executive Jhunjhunwala in bank fraud case

Jhunjhunwala was produced before special CBI judge J P Darekar on a production warrant from New Delhi's Tihar Central Ja...

UP: Man gets life term for sexual assault of teen, driving her to suicide

Government counsel Vinay Arora told PTI that following sexual harassment at the hands of the accused, the girl, a studen...

PIL in SC seeks constituency-wise disclosure of disenfranchisement in West Bengal

The PIL was filed by the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee's SIR Committee chairperson Prasenjit Bose seeking direc...

Full Court Reference held for Chief Justice Arun Palli after elevation to Supreme Court

Justice Sanjeev Kumar, Justice Sindhu Sharma, Justice Rajnesh Oswal, Justice Sanjay Dhar, Justice Mohd. Akram Chowdhary,...

UP woman gets life term for throwing acid on husband, causing blindness

Kahkansha allegedly poured acid on her husband, Muzaffar (35), while he was sleeping at their home with the intention of...

Delhi court acquits man in 2021 firing case that left policeman, civilian injured

Additional Sessions Judge Sheetal Chaudhary Pradhan was hearing a case against Sujeet, who was accused under charges of ...

NEET paper leak: Delhi court sends 3 accused to 14 days’ judicial custody

Special Judge Ajay Gupta allowed the CBI’s plea seeking judicial custody of physics translator Manisha Sanjay Hawaldar, ...

Venkita Mohana becomes second woman to be directly elevated to SC from Bar

Mohana, 59, graduated from the Coimbatore Law College in 1988 and has been practising since then. The Supreme Court desi...

Will not allow senior advocates to argue during partial court working days: SC

The summer vacation in the top court has been rechristened as partial court working days. This year, three to four bench...

Thane court acquits three women accused of running prostitution racket

Special Judge (POCSO) S P Agarwal acquitted Sharminbanu, alias Zeenat Yunus Siddhiqui (36), Rizwana Javed Khan (27), and...

Man gets 20 years in jail for raping 15-year-old girl in Navi Mumbai

In July 2019, Nirmal pulled the victim, a Class X student, from a common water tap into his house and raped her twice. A...

T'gana CM appears before court in Hyderabad over cases registered during BRS regime

While one case was registered at Huzurnagar police station in Suryapet district, the other was booked in Kamalapur polic...

Kerala court denies bail to 5 accused of attack on ED officials' vehicles

Thiruvananthapuram Judicial First Class Magistrate-III Tania Mariam Jose denied the relief to the accused saying that gr...

NEET leak: Court extends Hawaldar's CBI custody by 2 days; remands Mandhare to judicial custody

Seeking extension of Hawaldar's custody, the Special Public Prosecutor VK Pathak submitted that she was empanelled as a ...

UP: District Court summons records in alleged defamation case against Rahul Gandhi

Special Judge MP-MLA Rakesh Kumar passed the order as he took up a plea by the complainant challenging the lower court's...

Man sent to prison for remainder of life by Kerala court for sexual assault of minor boy

If the amount is realised from the convict, it should be paid to the victim, the court said and also directed the Kozhik...

Court orders framing of charges against Jacqueline, Sukesh for money laundering; 'conman' charged under MCOCA in another case

The court also ordered framing of charges against Chandrashekar and 20 others for various offences, including under the ...