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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 registered at Kartavya Path police station under various BNS provisions, including assault or criminal force on a woman with intent to outrage her modesty.
November 24, 2025SC 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 the high court transferring to itself all matters related to the dispute pending before the Mathura court.
November 24, 2025India 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 registered at Kartavya Path police station under various BNS provisions, including assault or criminal force on a woman with intent to outrage her modesty.
November 24, 2025Criminal 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 firm with four other individuals – Bhagwandas Bagri, Ramkishan Bagri, Shyamsundar Bagri and Jagdish Prasad Bagri (complainant) with an aim to carry on business of construction of warehouses and godowns and subsequently letting them out to third parties.
November 24, 2025Justice 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 justice of the Gujarat High Court and a judge of the Allahabad High Court. He was the first chief justice of a high court in India to live-stream court proceedings on a YouTube channel.
November 24, 20252023 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 sometimes becomes whimsical and goes into the loop of illusions, and the accused is suffering from delusional disorder
November 24, 2025SC 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, passed by the High Court of Delhi, which was upheld by this honourable court dated 04.10.2024 in SLP (Civil) No... and direct the respondents to remit the pension to the petitioners from 2006 as directed by the high court, including payment of all arrears as per the court's directions, in a time-bound manner
November 24, 2025NIA 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 at the time of transfer and that no medical treatment was therefore given.
November 24, 2025India 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 intent to outrage her modesty), 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt), 221 (obstructing public servants in discharge of duties) and 223 (disobedience to a lawful order from a public servant).
November 24, 2025Man 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 was also married.
November 24, 2025'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, when they were serving as Delhi chief minister and deputy chief minister, respectively. While Kejriwal was the chief guest, the then deputy speaker Rakhi Birla was the guest of honour, and Goel presided over the ceremony.
November 24, 2025CJI 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 of a lawyer, the husband of a judge, from the post of standing counsel for the Uttar Pradesh government.
November 24, 2025Maharashtra 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, and it will continue to extend the support till the investigation is ongoing
November 24, 2025SC 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 in cash below Rs 2,000 under section 13A(d) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, can no more be justified and is manifestly arbitrary and has no nexus to the object of maintaining transparency in the funding of political parties," it said.
November 24, 2025Two, 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 arrest of CPI(M) leader P Jayarajan in a criminal case.
November 24, 2025Delhi 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 225 crore) from AgustaWestland.
November 24, 2025Rape 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 retrospectively branded as instances of offence of rape merely because the relationship failed to culminate in marriage.
November 24, 2025Delhi 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 officers of the rank of commandant and below and officers above the rank of commandant in the Coast Guard, we are constrained to hold that Rule 20(1) and 20(2) of the 1986 Rules, insofar as it fixes different ages of superannuation, is unconstitutional and violative of Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution," a bench of justices C Hari Shankar and Om Prakash Shukla said
November 24, 2025Delhi 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 of probabilities that the deceased sustained fatal injuries in road accident at the detailed time and place due to rash and negligent driving of offending vehicle.”
November 24, 2025Rabri 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 be transferred to another court of competent jurisdiction.
November 24, 2025Ex-CJI Gavai leaves official car for successor Surya Kant at Rashtrapati Bhavan
Justice Kant was appointed the next CJI on October 30, and will remain in the post for nearly 15 months. He will demit office on February 9, 2027, on attaining the age of 65.
November 24, 2025CJI Kant to head SC collegium after predecessor Gavai demits office
Even though Justice Kant has a tenure of nearly 15 months as CJI, the collegium will undergo only one change when Justice Maheshwari retires on June 28, 2026. Justice PS Narasimha will become a member of the collegium. After CJI Kant retires, Justice JB Pardiwala will enter the collegium.
November 24, 2025From small-town lawyer to pinnacle of judiciary, 53rd CJI Surya Kant delivered many key verdicts
CJI Kant was also on the seven-judge bench that overruled the 1967 Aligarh Muslim University verdict, opening the way for reconsideration of its minority status.
November 24, 2025Outgoing CJI rejects popular notion that judges won't be seen as independent unless they rule against govt
“Even in Lutyens' Delhi, we heard bursting of crackers during the time when the ban was in force,” he said, adding that there were insufficient numbers of staff in the state pollution control boards.
November 24, 2025Only relaxed timeline, but governors cannot hold a bill indefinitely: Outgoing CJI Gavai defends verdict
“In any case the government may succeed or lose. But the thinking in some quarters that unless you decide everything against the government, you are not an independent judge, is not a correct approach,” CJI Gavai added.
November 24, 2025Outgoing CJI Gavai defends collegium system, bats for creamy layer exclusion in SC quota
Justice Gavai also spoke about the unprecedented and shocking incident of an elderly lawyer hurling a shoe towards him in his courtroom, apparently over his purported remarks on Lord Vishnu.
November 24, 2025Delhi tribunal awards Rs 1.1-crore compensation to family of serviceman killed in crash
"No contributory negligence can be attributed to the deceased on ground of intoxication," the tribunal said adding that, according to the high court verdict, being under the influence of alcohol did not "automatically establish contributory negligence."
November 24, 2025MACT awards compensation of Rs 54 lakh to man injured in 2018 road accident
Rajendra Digambar Jamdar (55) was injured on May 23 that year after he fell from the motorcycle on which he was riding pillion while it was trying to avoid a collision with an autorickshaw at Ovla Naka.
November 24, 2025Court permits NIA to probe into PFI men in Kerala palm chopping case
In the petition, the NIA stated that during custodial interrogation, Savad revealed that PFI cadres and leaders helped arrange shelter and employment for him in Pandrimalai, Dindigul in Tamil Nadu, and later in Kannur.
November 24, 2025Cal HC asks banks to file reports on use of regional language at branches
The RBI advised lenders through a circular dated July 1, 2014, on customer service regarding use of regional languages in public and private sector banks to ensure displaying indicator boards at all the counters in English, Hindi as well as in the regional language concerned.
November 24, 20258 years on, man gets 3-year RI for sexually assaulting minor girl in Thane
The judge rejected the defence's attempt to discredit the victim for not immediately reporting the incident to the watchman, stating, "This act on the part of victim is but natural. Therefore, non-disclosure of the incident by the victim to the watchman does not make any difference."
November 24, 2025UP: Three get life term for murder of Baghpat man in 2023
Police arrested the accused soon after the incident and sent them to jail. The case was heard in the court of Additional District Judge (Special SC/ST Court) Pawan Kumar.
November 24, 2025Bengaluru NIA court sentences two in Shivamogga terror module to 6 years of imprisonment
The convicts - Zabiulla (34), known by multiple names, and Nadeem Faizal (29) - were arrested in 2022 and charged under various provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Indian Penal Code, for offences of conspiracy, terrorist acts, and association with a banned organisation.
November 24, 2025Dealing with pendency of cases, promoting mediation will be my priorities as CJI: Justice Surya Kant
"Despite any weather conditions or anything, I normally go for my walk and average 50 minutes to one hour I walk...," he said.
November 24, 2025Man sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment for raping minor girl
The SPP said that the incident occurred on Christmas Eve in 2023 when John seuxally assaulted the girl near her house in Vandiperiyar while she was on the way back home after prayers.
November 24, 2025Environmental activists in country struggle to survive: Ex-SC judge Oka
"It is the judicial magistrate who has a role to play when an accused is produced before him; he has to see whether the constitutional mandate has been followed, whether he has been ill-treated after he is taken into police custody, whether the grounds of arrest have been provided to him," he said.
November 24, 2025