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6 years on, tribunal awards Rs 25 lakh compensation to accident victim's kin
MACT member Rupali V Mohite, in the order on November 20, directed the truck's insurance company to pay the compensation...
Chennai court awards lifer to three Bawaria gang members for murder of AIADMK MLA
About 86 people were examined. After the investigation from all sides was completed, the judge pronounced the verdict in...
Uttarakhand HC seeks expert opinion on artificial rain to extinguish forest fires
The petition stated that although the government was using helicopters to extinguish fires, it was costly and not entire...
India Gate protest: 22 sent to judicial custody; cops claim pro-Hidma slogans raised
In the second case, Judicial Magistrate Sahil Monga sent the 17 accused persons, including 11 women, to three days' jail...
Chennai court awards lifer to three Bawaria gang members for murder of AIADMK MLA
On January 9, 2005, at 2.45 am, a five-member gang broke into his house in Thanakulam near Periyapalayam, shot Sudarsana...
Allahabad HC pulls up trail court for 'lethargic' handling of 20-yr-old criminal case
Shrish Kumar Malviya, 73, is facing prosecution under Section 129 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, since 2...
SC sets aside Himachal Pradesh HC order, upholds govt’s cancellation of ePoS tender
Writing the first judgement as Chief Justice of India, Justice Surya Kant, on Monday held that the state government was ...
Profits from cricket betting constitute proceeds of crime under PMLA: Delhi HC
The high court passed the verdict dismissing a batch of petitions filed by several persons in an alleged Rs 2,400 crore ...
Wife's pregnancy can't erase acts of cruelty, says Delhi HC; husband granted divorce
The family court rejected the divorce plea on the grounds that the husband had failed to prove cruelty and did not suffi...
Custodial violence and death a blot on system, country will not tolerate this: SC
While hearing a suo motu case concerning lack of functional CCTVs in police stations, a bench of Justices Vikram Nath an...
Uttarakhand HC rejects local BJP leader Madan Joshi's anticipatory bail plea
A division bench comprising Chief Justice G Narendra and Justice Subhash Upadhyay on Monday rejected the anticipatory ba...
Protest at India Gate: Delhi court sends 17 agitators to 3-day judicial custody
The investigating officer further states that the accused persons refused to disclose their identity and did not coopera...
Special judge for ACB cases refuses bail to Mumbai civil court clerk held for Rs 15 lakh bribe
Vasudeo was arrested two weeks ago for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 15 lakh from a businessman in exchange for a fa...
Maharashtra minister's PA arrested for 'abetting' wife's suicide; in police custody till Nov 27
State Women's Rights Commission will follow up on the entire investigation. The commission is with the family of Palave,...
Bail granted to Chinnaiah arrested in Dharmasthala case
He was arrested on August 23 for alleged perjury and initially taken in to SIT custody before being sent to judicial cus...
Protest at India Gate: Delhi court sends 17 protesters to 3-day judicial custody
Judicial Magistrate Aridaman Singh Cheema was hearing the case against the five students against whom an FIR was registe...
SC to hear on Dec 1 plea of Hindu party in Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Idgah mosque dispute case
The Supreme Court is already seized of a petition filed by the mosque committee challenging the May 26, 2023, order of t...
India Gate protest: Demonstrators raising pro-Hidma slogans, Delhi Police tells court
Judicial Magistrate Aridaman Singh Cheema was hearing the case against the five students against whom an FIR was registe...
Criminal law can't become platform for settling personal scores: SC
According to the dispute, in 1976, Inder Chand Bagri, who was owner of the disputed land decided to form a partnership f...
Justice Vikram Nath named NALSA executive chairman; Justice Maheshwari to head SCLSC
Justice Nath, who has been serving on the Supreme Court Bench since 2021, has previously held positions as the chief jus...
2023 train firing case: Sacked RPF constable seeks bail, claims suffering from delusional disorder
The accused is suffering from extreme mental strokes, and he is a partial mental patient/mentally challenged, who someti...
SC seeks response from Union ministries on plea of retired IPS officers’ body challenging pension clause
Issue an appropriate writ, order or direction directing the respondents to comply with the judgment dated 20.03.2024, pa...
NIA court directs CJM to take action on alleged custodial torture in jail
The Superintendent of Viyyur High Security Prison filed a statement stating that Manoj did not have any serious injuries...
Delhi HC sets aside rule of different retirement age for Coast Guard officers
In the absence of any factor which indicates a rational nexus between fixing of different ages of superannuation for off...
India Gate protest: Delhi court sends five demonstrators to 2-day judicial custody
The FIR has been registered under relevant sections of BNS including 74 (assault or criminal force to a woman with inten...
Maharashtra minister's PA arrested for 'abetting' wife's suicide; in police custody till Nov 27
In their police complaint, Palve's family alleged that Garje had an extra-marital affair, and she caught him chatting wi...
Man sentenced to death for murdering pregnant woman in Kerala's Alappuzha
According to the prosecution, Prabeesh was in a relationship with both Anitha, a mother of two children, and Rejani, who...
Sonam Wangchuk's detention: SC adjourns wife's plea to December 8
Wangchuk was detained under the stringent National Security Act (NSA) on September 26, two days after violent protests d...
'Phansi ghar' row: Kejriwal, Sisodia not cooperating with privilege committee, says Assembly Secretariat to HC
The 'phansi ghar' was inaugurated in the presence of Kejriwal and Sisodia inside the assembly complex on August 22, 2022...
CJI Surya Kant says no to oral mentioning of cases, hears 17 cases on first day
The bench led by Justice Kant heard an appeal challenging an Allahabad High Court decision refusing to order the removal...
SC issues notice on plea concerning cash donations received by political parties
"Thus, with the advent of UPI revolution in the country, permitting exemption of income received by way of contribution ...
Two, including CPI(M) candidate convicted in crude bomb attack case in Kannur
The case relates to an incident in August 2012, when a crude bomb was hurled at policemen in Payyannur following the arr...
Delhi HC seeks Centre, CBI, ED's response on Christian Michel's plea challenging extradition provision
The ED, in its chargesheet filed against Michel in June 2016, had alleged that he received 30 million euros (about Rs 22...
Rape case: Misuse of criminal justice machinery calls for condemnation, says SC
The bench said in such cases, physical intimacy that occurred during the course of a functioning relationship cannot be ...
Delhi tribunal awards over Rs 35 lakh compensation to family of youth killed in 2022 accident
In a judgment dated November 18, the tribunal said, “The claimants have successfully proved on a scale of preponderance ...
Rabri Devi alleges bias, seeks transfer of CBI, ED cases to another court
The plea claimed there was "a reasonable apprehension of bias" and that in the interest of justice, the cases needed to ...