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Tribal communities will be excluded from scope of Uniform Civil Code: Madhya Pradesh CM
A proposal to implement the UCC in the state will be introduced in the coming monsoon session of the legislative assembl...
MP: Former bank manager gets life term for murdering wife, staging snake-bite
Additional Sessions Judge Hemant Kumar Raghuvanshi, in the judgment passed on June 24, held that Pateria was found guilt...
Bengal: Court remands Shakir Ali to 2 days' NIA custody in 2023 Ram Navami violence case
Ali, husband of former TMC MP Aparupa Poddar, was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday from th...
Delhi court sends IPS officer to 1-day CBI custody in alleged bribery case
Gahlawat, a 2012-batch Haryana cadre IPS officer who was also serving as BCAS regional director at the time of the alleg...
Court directs TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee to give voice sample in intimidatory speech case
The police have sought his voice sample under Section 349 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita in connection with a...
Mandi court sentences man to five-year rigorous imprisonment in NDPS case
The accused, Sohan Singh, a resident of the Kotmorse area of Mandi district, was arrested with 945 grams of cannabis in ...
All India Bar body chief urges CJI Surya Kant not to entertain oppn parties' memo on SIR
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh in a post on X on Tuesday said the opposition parties were firmly anchored in "...
Court orders FIR against SHO, 5 others for allegedly assaulting POCSO accused in Shahjahanpur
Advocate Priyam Chauhan told PTI that a 25-year-old woman alleged before the Chief Judicial Magistrate's court that poli...
Maharashtra to set up units for flagging firms or schemes offering unrealistically high returns
Replying to a discussion on the Maharashtra Protection of Interests of Depositors (in Financial Establishments) (Amendme...
Delhi tribunal applies latest SC ruling, awards Rs 14.1 lakh in 3-year-old's death case
Presiding Officer Sudeep Raj Saini was hearing a claim petition filed by the parents of baby Ekra and directed the Bajaj...
Delhi court sends Haryana cadre IPS officer to 1-day CBI custody in bribery case
Special Judge Sushant Changotra allowed one-day custodial interrogation of Gahlawat, a 2012-batch IPS officer posted on ...
Plea in SC refers to 'Rs 370 biryani' remark at standup comedy show, seeks regulatory framework
Tiwari in his PIL said that existing legal mechanisms are predominantly reactive and become operational only after false...
Delhi court acquits man in 2022 murder case, cites unreliable witnesses
Additional Sessions Judge Vishal Singh was hearing a case against Manajar Alam, who was charged under IPC Section 302 fo...
Infant is not 'non-earning' member, says tribunal; orders payout to kin of minor victim of accident
In its order passed on Tuesday, MACT Chairman and Principal District Judge R D Sawant ordered truck owner Dinkar Mane an...
Tamil Nadu govt moves SC against Madras HC order banning cow slaughter
In its plea, the Tamil Nadu government challenged the May 27 order of the high court, which directed the chief secretary...
Man gets 10-year jail for selling spurious liquor that killed two in UP
Additional District and Sessions Judge Vishnu Chandra Vesh on Tuesday also imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh on the convict, S...
Pune fort murder: After Siya Goyal's kin deny appointing him as legal counsel, lawyer sends notice
For the past few days, lawyer Aashutosh Srivastav had been claiming to represent Siya and had given interviews to news c...
Hearing in Rahul Gandhi's case over remarks against Amit Shah deferred to July 1
Gandhi's counsel Kashi Prasad Shukla said that arguments in this case were scheduled to take place in the court of ADJ-5...
Honeymoon murder: Will move SC to seek cancellation of accused Sonam's bail, says victim's brother
The Meghalaya High Court on Monday dismissed the state government's petition seeking the cancellation of the bail grante...
DMK leader Baalu withdraws defamation case against Anammalai
Baalu had filed a suit at Saidapet court here demanding Rs 100 crore in compensation from Annamalai for spreading defama...
Good judicial infrastructure 'no longer luxury but necessity': Meghalaya HC Chief Justice
The new complex, coming up at Umsawli, is expected to significantly strengthen the state's judicial infrastructure and i...
Odisha court sentences man to death for killing 12-year-old niece
Fast-track court judge Rohit Lal Panda observed the case falls under the rarest of rare category and sentenced the convi...
Delhi tribunal awards Rs 29.74 lakh to man left permanently disabled in hit-and-run accident
Presiding Officer Aditi Garg was hearing a claim petition filed by Deepak Gupta, who suffered multiple injuries and 66 p...
3 UP cops get 18 months jail in 1994 Rampur Tiraha firing-related case
Special CBI Magistrate Devendra Kumar Fauzdar convicted former Jhinjhana SHO Brij Kishore and retired constables Umesh C...
Viral video leads GRP to recover knife used in Mumbai local train murder
In a related development, a magistrate court on Tuesday extended the police custody of the accused, Roshan Suvarna, till...
Twisha Sharma case: CBI seeks court's nod to collect voice samples of her husband, mother-in-law
The court of Justice Aarti Aditya Bandil on Tuesday extended till July 14 the judicial custody of Samarth Singh and Giri...
Delhi tribunal awards Rs 29.74 lakh to man left permanently disabled in Mercedes hit-and-run
Presiding Officer Aditi Garg was hearing a claim petition filed by Deepak Gupta, who suffered multiple injuries and beca...
Man gets 20-year RI in sexual assault case; Consent immaterial in cases involving minors, says court
The court demolished the defence's argument of a "consensual love affair," underscoring that the statutory age threshold...
Delhi court acquits three in 2020 attempt to murder case after complainant fails to identify accused
In an order dated June 9, the court said, "It is a cardinal principle of criminal jurisprudence that suspicion, however ...
Delhi court grants bail to CBI official who allegedly stole Rs 1 lakh during raid
It said that the accused did not appear to be at flight risk and there were no circumstances to suggest that releasing h...
Delhi court grants bail to ex-GST officer accused of fraudulently releasing public funds
The investigating officer (IO) claimed that the unusual haste in sanctioning refunds is an important incriminating circu...
Prayagraj court awards death penalty to man for rape, murder of 3-year-old girl
District Government Counsel Manoj Kumar Pandey said Additional Sessions Judge and Special Judge (POCSO) Vinod Kumar Chau...
Patna court extends Khan Sir's protection from arrest till July 3 in coaching institute firing case
Khan was named in an FIR related to a firing incident by his guards when miscreants vandalised his coaching institute in...
Judicial review cornerstone of India's constitutional democracy: CJI Surya Kant
The Chief Justice of India (CJI) made the remarks on Monday at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral A...
Pune man, 65, gets death penalty for rape-murder of minor girl; court says he is menace to society
Terming the case "rarest of the rare", Additional Judge S R Salunkhe rejected the defence's plea for leniency based on a...
Rule of law disciplines exercise of power to ensure none left vulnerable: CJI Surya Kant
The CJI was delivering the keynote address at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) ...