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Court issues notice to filmmaker, others in actress Manju Warrier defamation case
Third Additional Munsiff Court Judge Reeja R Nair issued notices to Sasidharan, Shajan Skaria, who runs a Malayalam online news portal, and to Meta Platforms Inc.
September 19, 2026MCC violation case against Sanjay Singh: Hearing in UP court deferred to Sept 25 due to lawyers' boycott
Advocate Rudra Pratap Singh Madan, representing Singh, said MP-MLA special court magistrate Shubham Verma fixed the next date for recording defence evidence.
September 19, 2026NIA court rejects joint bail plea of 3 accused in 2022 Jammu terror attack case
The court accordingly rejected the joint bail application of the three accused, keeping in view the nature and gravity of the offences and the larger interest of the State and Union territory.
September 19, 2026Gurugram: Assam man gets life imprisonment in 2023 murder case
The case pertained to the death of Kalpana, a domestic worker the convict Mukesh had been living with at the time. She died after falling from a rooftop on February 20, 2023.
September 19, 2026UP court issues notice to Rahul in Hathras defamation case
The hearing was scheduled for Saturday but it could not take place as the judicial officer was not holding court, said Munna Singh Pundhir, advocate of the complainants.
September 19, 2026Four high courts get 14 judges
Three judges have been appointed to the Jharkhand High Court and three additional judges to the Karnataka High Court.
September 19, 2026Court grants one-day Excise custody of Malayalam TV channel MD in liquor seizure case
Sultan Bathery Judicial First Class Magistrate Adheena Biju granted custody to the Excise Department in the case registered under the Abkari Act.
September 19, 2026Judicial custody of 8 accused in Ayodhya Ram temple donation theft case extended till Sep 21
The eight accused, who were associated with the temple's donation-counting process, were arrested after an FIR was lodged on June 25 following a preliminary report by a state government-constituted Special Investigation Team (SIT). They are currently lodged in jail.
September 18, 2026Palghar hospital violence: 22 accused remanded in judicial custody till Oct 1
The prosecution sought two-day extension of police custody citing the need for further investigation and seizure of vehicles allegedly connected with the incident.
September 18, 2026Court order in Jhiram Valley case cites chilling details of Maoist planning unravelled by NIA probe
The probe details into the May 25, 2013 attack are contained in the order of a special NIA court in Jagdalpur, which on Wednesday sentenced 10 accused to death in the case. The order was uploaded on Friday.
September 18, 2026Special Court directs Lokayukta police to submit report on Kharge linked trust land case
The Additional City Civil and Sessions Court passed the direction after noting that the complainant, Vijayraghava Marathe, had cured a defect in his affidavit and that there was no impediment to proceeding with the matter.
September 18, 2026Bengal court remands arrested Maoist leader Akash to 10 days' police custody
According to police, Akash was a close associate of Maoist military commander Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishenji, who was killed in an encounter with security forces in West Bengal's Jhargram district in 2011.
September 18, 2026Court rejects bail plea of Malayalam TV channel MD in liquor seizure case
Sultan Bathery Judicial First Class Magistrate Adheena Biju dismissed the bail plea in the case registered by the Excise Department under the Abkari Act.
September 18, 2026MACT awards compensation to accident victim's parents despite MSRTC bus driver's acquittal by court
The petition, filed by Eknath Namdev Chaudhari (47) and Manisha Eknath Chaudhari (45), sought compensation for the death of their son, Suraj Eknath Chaudhari.
September 18, 2026Illicit trade causes economic losses, facilitates organised crime : Justice Sachdeva
He was speaking at the 12th edition of MASCADE 2026, organised by FICCI CASCADE under the theme "ONE WORLD, ONE FIGHT: Eliminating Counterfeiting and Smuggling Through Collective Action" and said counterfeit and smuggled goods undermine legitimate businesses, deplete government tax revenues and lead to loss of jobs.
September 18, 2026UP man sentenced to death for sexual assault, murder of 5-year-old boy in Punjab's Hoshiarpur
Terming it a "rarest of rare" case, Additional Sessions Judge Manpreet Kaur directed that the accused Nanke Yadav alias Radhe Sham, a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Gonda district, be hanged till death under Section 103 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
September 18, 2026UP: Judge who awarded 23 death sentences claims 'injustice' as 97 cases recalled from his court
He also wrote that power must be exercised with responsibility and discretion, warning that unchecked authority could turn a mechanism intended to protect people into one that causes oppression.
September 18, 2026Delhi court grants default bail to US national in Myanmar drone training camp case
During the hearing, NIA had said the investigation into offences under the UAPA had been kept pending for further probe, and the agency could file a supplementary chargesheet if an offence under the anti-terror law was established.
September 18, 2026UP: Former CMO, 3 Ballia hospital doctors booked for tampering with minor's age certificate
Pursuant to an order from the Juvenile Justice Board, the district hospital determined Pravindra Kumar's age to be 20 years, and an age certificate was issued by the hospital on January 17, 2022.
September 18, 2026POCSO court sentences man to life term for raping deaf, mute girl in UP's Ballia
Additional District Judge (POCSO) Pratham Kant on Thursday also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on Satyendra Yadav, Special Public Prosecutor Vimal Kumar Rai said.
September 18, 2026Delhi court grants bail to US national Van Dyke's in terror-conspiracy case
According to court sources, Special Judge Prashant Sharma granted bail to Van Dyke on a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh and a surety in the like amount. The court directed that he shall not leave Delhi.
September 18, 2026Lucknow court convicts constable in 2018 killing of city's Apple area manager, acquits another
Sessions Judge Malkhan Singh directed that Chaudhary, who is in jail, be produced before the court on September 21 for hearing on the question of sentence.
September 17, 2026Odisha: 12 get life imprisonment in father-son murder case
Additional District and Sessions Judge of Paralakhemudi, H P Pattanaik, also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on each of the convicts, failing which they would have to undergo another six months rigorous imprisonment, said public prosecutor Rajesh Kumar Mishra.
September 17, 2026MACT awards Rs 20.17 lakh to man who suffered permanent disability in 2019 accident
Rahul Dattatreya Thombare, a 36-year-old pharmaceutical firm employee, sustained severe injuries on December 4 that year when his motorcycle was hit on Boisar-Nandgaon road by a pick-up van.
September 17, 2026UP court sentences man to life imprisonment for wife's murder
Circle Officer, Dhampur, Anjani Kumar Chaturvedi said Mahendra Pal Singh had lodged a complaint alleging that his 26-year-old daughter Chitra was killed by her in-laws at Kagpur on August 13, 2024.
September 17, 202626/11 attack: Mumbai Police seek time from court to execute proclamation order against Hafiz Saeed
At the last hearing, the police had told the court that they had written to the Union Home Ministry for taking necessary steps to serve the proclamation order through Interpol against the accused who are in Pakistan.
September 17, 2026Former Keralam DGP Tomin Thachankary sentenced to 4 years in DA case
"The higher the public office held, greater is the obligation to maintain the highest standards of integrity and probity," the court observed in its order, noting that the convict was a senior IPS officer who had held several responsible positions during his career, including that of DGP, Keralam.
September 17, 2026Delhi court directs registration of FIR over derogatory social media posts
Chief Judicial Magistrate Mridul Gupta was hearing a plea by advocate Amita Sachdeva seeking the court's direction to register an FIR against one Karishma Aziz for making derogatory social media posts on X (formerly Twitter).
September 17, 2026Ready to reduce qualifying percentile to 30 in NEET-SS: Centre tells SC
In a note filed before the top court, the Centre submitted that 1,857 super speciality seats are currently lying vacant after the completion of the second round of NEET-SS counselling and a substantial number of these seats pertain to highly specialised medical and surgical disciplines.
September 17, 20264 get life imprisonment for killing dairy delivery driver in Rajasthan
The case dates back to December 31, 2022, when Jamnashankar, a resident of Kota Khurd, lodged a police complaint following an attack on his son Hariom, who worked as a driver for a local milk dairy vehicle, near Makhida T-junction by four to five armed men.
September 17, 2026Keralam: Three ex-civic officials, building owner get four-year RI in building rules case
Thiruvananthapuram Vigilance Court Judge Manoj A also imposed a fine of Rs one lakh each on former Assistant Planning Officer J Jayashankar, former Building Inspector V Sashidharan Nair and former U D Clerk R Sankaran, and Rs two lakh on building owner G Mohandas.
September 17, 2026'Cybercrimes rising at exponential rate': Delhi court denies bail to 2 accused in sextortion racket
Additional Sessions Judge Twinkle Wadhwa made the observations while dismissing the bail applications of Kunal and Rajesh, accused in an FIR registered by the Cyber Cell.
September 17, 2026Delhi court flags 'inappropriate' arrest of man in extortion case, grants him bail
Additional Sessions Judge Balwinder Singh was hearing a bail plea filed by Zuber Khan, who was arrested in connection with the alleged abduction of complainant Devender Singh, and allowed the plea.
September 17, 20268 years after death in road accident, victim's family gets Rs 25.82 lakh compensation
The plea had been filed in New Delhi District, as the office of the insurance company, New India Assurance Company Ltd, was within the territorial limits of the tribunal at Patiala House courts.
September 17, 2026Former Keralam DGP sentenced to four years' RI in disproportionate assets case
This is the first case in Keralam in which an officer of DGP rank has been sentenced for possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, according to reports.
September 17, 2026Delhi ACB files chargesheet in health scam case
“Fresh chargesheet is received by way of assignment. It be checked and registered,” Special Judge Vidya Prakash said in an order issued on Wednesday.
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