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Anand Marriage Act to come into force in Sikkim from June 1
This will allow members of the Sikh community in Sikkim to register their marriages solemnised under the traditional 'An...
Financial advisor gets 2-year RI, fined Rs 30 lakh in breach of trust case
Special court judge G T Pawar, however, cleared the accused, Mateshwar Rajpat Giri, of charges of cheating under the IPC...
Navi Mumbai court acquits two men in 2018 murder case
Additional Sessions Judge Makarand R Mandawgade of the Belapur court on Friday, acquitted Mohammad Akram Tafajjul Khan (...
UP: Rampur court sentences SP leader Azam Khan to 2 years in jail in model code violation case
The case pertains to a speech delivered by Khan during an election rally in the Mankara area within the Bhot police stat...
TCS sexual harassment case: Court says clear evidence of abetment by POSH committee member
Chainani was a member of the Internal Committee of the company, formed under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace...
Sambhal violence case: Police officer Anuj Chaudhary cross-examined
Chaudhary, now posted as an Additional Superintendent of Police, was cross-examined through video conferencing before Di...
Constitution doesn't mandate judicial representation on EC appointment committee: Centre to SC
The government said the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service...
ASI allows Hindus unrestricted access to Bhojshala following HC order
The HC on Friday also quashed the ASI's April 7, 2003 order which had allowed Muslims to offer Friday prayers at the com...
Surat court orders registration of criminal case against Anurag Kashyap for comments on Brahmins
The court of Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) A S Jani partly allowed a private complaint filed by lawyer and Vish...
NEET paper leak: Delhi court sends kingpin Kulkarni, accused Waghmare to 10-day CBI custody; biology lecturer arrested
The development came as biology lecturer Manisha Mandhare, who was part of the National Testing Agency's (NTA) paper-set...
Court extends ED remand of Punjab minister Sanjeev Arora in money laundering case
The agency sought his custody for five more days, saying it needed to investigate the routing of funds through shell com...
Delhi court grants bail to Robert Vadra in Haryana land deal case
The court granted them bail on furnishing a bail bond and surety bond of Rs 50,000 each, subject to the condition that t...
NEET paper leak: Delhi court sends kingpin Kulkarni, accused Waghmare to 10-day CBI custody
Special Public Prosecutor Neetu Gupta appeared for the federal agency and sought a 14-day remand for the interrogation o...
Kerala: Court extends judicial custody of alleged PFI activists by 90 days
The two are accused in cases related to alleged anti-national activities of the Popular Front of India, including the mu...
Temple-Mosque litigation in India: Krishna Janmabhoomi, Kashi Vishwanath and others
Apart from the Ayodhya title dispute, in which the Supreme Court order in 2019 led to the building of a Ram temple at th...
Vigilance Court sentences VEO to 5 years RI for fund misappropriation
Thiruvananthapuram Vigilance Court Judge Manoj A found Dinu S G (41), a resident of Nettayam in the city, guilty of caus...
Judiciary needs to function like 24x7 hospitals to address common man's pain, aspirations: CJI
He said technology was the only effective answer to wastage of judiciary's time, and called for deepening technology and...
CJI Surya Kant clarifies 'parasites' remarks, says 'pained' over media reports
Kant emphasised that his remarks were specifically directed at individuals entering the legal profession through "fake a...
CJI calls for deepening technology and AI-based judicial architecture for faster justice delivery
Stating that technology was the only effective answer to wastage of judiciary's time, he said the country's judiciary wa...
Technology only effective answer to wastage of judiciary's time: CJI
He was speaking at a programme of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on 'Fragmentation to fusion empowering justice via unite...
Six of family among seven sentenced to life imprisonment in murder case in UP
He said those convicted are Ajay Tiwari of Tandwa village; his sons Alok and Abhay; his brothers Uday Narayan Tiwari, Ma...
Thane court sentences man to life imprisonment for bludgeoning wife to death
The court sentenced him to life imprisonment and a three-year term to be served concurrently. It also imposed a fine of ...
Hindu petitioners term Bhojshala ruling victory after 700-year struggle
The Public Interest Litigation filed by the organisation claimed that Bhojshala was originally a Saraswati temple built ...
Nashik TCS sexual harassment-forced conversion case: Bail pleas of five accused rejected
Arguments on the bail pleas took place between May 11 and 13, with the prosecution and defence putting forth their sides...
Bhojshala dispute: Muslim petitioners to move SC against high court decision
Ashar Warsi, the Muslim side's lawyer, told PTI, "We are not satisfied with the High Court's decision. We will challenge...
Elgar case: NIA seeks cancellation of activists Sudha Bharadwaj and Varavara Rao's bail
At the time of granting them bail, the trial court imposed a slew of other conditions on the duo, including not leaving ...
Hearing deferred in case against Kumar Vishwas, other AAP leaders over non-service of summons
During the previous hearing on May 1, the court had issued summons to all the accused and directed them to appear on May...
Court sentences two men to 5 years of RI for threat calls to Gadkari in 2023
The court found them guilty under IPC sections 385 and 387 (putting person in fear of death of grievous hurt in order to...
Hindu party files caveat in SC in Bhojshala complex dispute case
In a huge win for the Hindu side, the Madhya Pradesh High Court declared that the disputed Bhojshala complex in Dhar dis...
NEET paper leak: Delhi court sends Lokhande to 6-day CBI custody
Special CBI judge Ajay Gupta was hearing the federal agency's plea seeking six days' custodial interrogation of Lokhande...
Assam: Man gets 20 years RI for sexually abusing minor
The court of Additional Sessions Judge-cum-Special Judge, Nurjamal Haque, also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on the convic...
Hindu party files caveat in SC in Bhojshala complex dispute case
The caveat, filed by Jitendra Singh ‘Vishen’ through advocate Barun Kumar Sinha, said, "Let no order be made in the abov...
SC to hear cases through video conferencing on Mondays, Fridays for optimum fuel utilisation
The move came following a call by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on cutting down avoidable expenditure due to the ongoing ...
Elgar case: NIA seeks cancellation of activists Sudha Bharadwaj and Varavara Rao's bail
At the time of granting bail to them, the court had imposed a slew of other conditions on the duo, including not leaving...
NEET paper leak: Delhi court sends Lokhande to 6-day CBI custody
Special CBI judge Ajay Gupta allowed the agency's plea seeking six days' custodial interrogation of Lokhande, who had be...
Unemployed 'youngsters like cockroaches' become media, activists; attack system: CJI
A visibly anguished CJI observed that if the Delhi High Court would confer senior advocate designation upon the petition...