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Delhi court sentences 67-year-old man to 20 yrs RI for raping 6-yr-old girl
Additional Sessions Judge Ajay Nagar was hearing arguments on sentencing the man who had been earlier convicted under the penal provision of rape and Section 5(m) (aggravated penetrative sexual assault on a child below 12 years) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
July 7, 2026Maharashtra to bring law for regulating private coaching classes
Responding to a Calling Attention Motion in the legislative council, Bhuse also said that guidelines were being prepared for pre-schools, specifying the kind of facilities they should have.
July 7, 2026Delhi court directs city police to lodge FIR against property dealer for cheating woman
Chief Judicial Magistrate Harshita Mishra was hearing an application by a complainant, Anita, seeking the court's direction to register an FIR against the accused, A K Goel, who introduced himself as a property dealer possessing extensive contacts with IIFL Home Finance and allegedly cheated her in the name of delivering her an auction property in Ghaziabad's Ankur Vihar.
July 7, 2026Bihar: Hearing on Khan Sir's anticipatory bail plea deferred till Wednesday
The case relates to a firing incident that occurred in early June after the coaching institute of Faisal Khan, better known as 'Khan Sir', was allegedly vandalised in Patna by a group of miscreants. His security guards are accused of opening fire during the incident.
July 7, 2026Two get 3-year RI for using forged disability certificates to obtain govt job in Latur
The Shivajinagar police had registered a case against the two accused on February 23, 2008, based on a complaint filed by then block development officer of the panchayat samiti.
July 7, 2026UP court sentences Chinese national to 11-month imprisonment for entering India illegally
During interrogation, the person identified himself as Zhang Young and told police that he had visited Nepal and subsequently entered India without a valid visa.
July 6, 2026Court sentences CPI(M) leader Chitharanjan till rising of court in traffic obstruction case
The case relates to a protest march organised by the Kerala Cooperative Employees Union, affiliated to the CITU, from Palayam to the Government Secretariat on January 17, 2025, demanding job security for employees of cooperative hospitals.
July 6, 20262 months after arrest, Nashik court grants bail to TCS staffer Nida; no relief for co-accused
After being on the run for days, Khan was arrested on May 7 from a rented flat in the Naregaon area of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in central Maharashtra following a joint operation by law enforcement agencies.
July 6, 2026Man sentenced to 6 years RI for attempt to sexually assault schoolgirl
The order was passed by Changanassery Fast Track Special Court Judge Ranjith Krishnan in a case registered by the Changanassery police in 2023.
July 6, 2026Court denies bail to ex-director of Lodha Developers in Rs 181 cr land scam
The material collected during investigation, prima facie, discloses that the applicant is alleged to have abused the authority entrusted to him by entering into a series of unauthorised transactions relating to valuable immovable properties of the company in conspiracy with the co-accused
July 6, 2026UP: MP MLA court adjourns hearing in defamation case against Rahul Gandhi till July 18
Shukla said even if the sessions court dismisses the revision petition and the plaintiff approaches the high court, the hearing in the main case can still be delayed because the case records would remain with the lower court.
July 6, 2026Delhi court convicts man in 2015 attempt to murder case, says intent to kill proved
In an order dated July 2, the court said it was of the opinion that the complainant's deposition about the accused riding the motorcycle on which accused Abdul Wazir alias Sikandar was travelling as a pillion rider and he firing upon complainant Dr Afaq Hussain Ansari's waist area needs to be accepted and the contentions of the defence need to be rejected.
July 6, 2026Kerala: Charges framed against 16 accused in 2018 Abhimanyu murder case
Abhimanyu, a BSc Chemistry student at Maharaja's College and an activist of the CPI(M)'s student wing -- the Students' Federation of India (SFI) -- was stabbed to death in July 2018.
July 6, 2026Two months after arrest, TCS case accused Nida Khan gets bail from Nashik court
Additional Sessions Judge (Nashik Road Court) K G Joshi, who granted bail to Khan, however, refused a similar relief to her co-accused Danish Shaikh.
July 6, 2026UP court sentences ex-village head, his associate to death in murder case
Additional District Judge (FTC) Muzaffarnagar Ravi Kumar Diwakar has also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on each of the former village head Pramod and his associate Sahdev after holding them guilty under Section 302 of the IPC.
July 6, 2026Maharashtra minister appears in Goa court in 2013 toll plaza vandalism case
The minister's counsel informed the court that he had visited the concerned police station on Sunday to furnish a personal bail bond. The court has now scheduled the matter for final arguments on July 9.
July 6, 2026Man sentenced to 42 years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting minor in Kozhikode
Nadapuram Fast Track Special Court Judge Devan K Menon found Chandran (56), a resident of Kallipperambil, Peruvannamuzhi here, guilty in the case and sentenced him to 42 years of rigorous imprisonment.
July 6, 2026Red Fort blast case: NIA submits forensic report of 11 victims in Delhi court
Earlier, on May 14, the NIA had filed a 7,500-page chargesheet in connection with the high-intensity vehicle-borne IED blast that rocked the national capital on November 10 last year.
July 6, 2026‘Pushpa 2’ stampede: Actor Allu Arjun appears before court virtually
The Hyderabad police filed the chargesheet in December 2025 against 23 accused, including Allu Arjun, and the copies were given to the accused today.
July 6, 2026Thane court acquits man accused of stabbing nephew as victim turns hostile
Sessions judge R D Sawant acquitted Arun Bhikaji Pathare, a resident of Uthalsar, of charges under section 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code and provisions of the Arms Act.
July 6, 2026Court acquits ex-DTC driver in 2011 road accident case
Additional Sessions Judge Dhirendra Rana was hearing the appeal of Shyam Sunder, who had been convicted by a magistrate under IPC sections 304 A (causing death by negligence) and 279 (rash and negligent driving), and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment in May last year.
July 5, 2026Court directs FIR against actress Lakshmi Priya, husband, woman cop in Ansiba Hassan harassment case
Hassan appeared before the magistrate when her petition against Lakshmi Priya, Jayesh and Reshma, a sub-inspector attached to the Women’s Cell, came up for hearing on Saturday.
July 5, 2026Thane court acquits man in rape case, cites woman's continued relationship
The court cleared the 30-year-old man, a resident of Mumbra in Maharashtra's Thane district, of charges under Sections 376, 376(2) (n) (repeated rape), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), and 504 (intentional insult) of the Indian Penal Code.
July 5, 2026Court not a forum for conjecture: Delhi court clears man of Passports Act charge
Additional Sessions Judge Saurabh Partap Singh Laler was hearing the revision petition filed by Palwinder Singh against the January 29, 2026, order of a magisterial court framing charges against him under the Passports Act.
July 5, 2026'Operation Conviction': Six sentenced to life term in three murder, abduction cases in UP
In Meerut, an additional district and sessions court sentenced four members of a family, including a woman's husband, to rigorous life imprisonment for setting her on fire with petrol in 2020.
July 5, 2026Pune realtor's murder: Judicial custody for Goyal, Chaudhary; cops don't press for polygraph tests
Police sought an extension of their custodial remand, but the court declined the request. Some witnesses who were present at the crime spot have now come forward to provide information, a senior police official told reporters while talking about the probe.
July 4, 2026Gurugram: 'Tower of Justice' to be inaugurated Jul 12 by CJI; judges review preparations
The judges said convenience of visitors should be accorded top priority during the event, and directed every arrangement within the premises be well-organised, managed and secure.
July 4, 2026Security breach case: Delhi court seeks NIA reply on US citizen's plea for American diet in jail
Van Dyke, an US citizen, was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on March 13, along with six Ukrainian nationals, after they allegedly infiltrated into India from Myanmar via the Mizoram border before being intercepted at various domestic airports across the country.
July 4, 2026Celebratory firing death: Bihar BJP MLA gets 4-yr jail; judge says no leniency, 'we don't need Singham or Pushpa'
Special Judge Vishal Gogne also slapped a fine of Rs 25 lakh on the legislator from Bihar's Sahebganj who was convicted for the death of a guest, Archana Gupta, at a New Year's party at a farmhouse in Fatehpur Beri here on the night of December 31, 2018. The amount will be paid as compensation.
July 4, 2026PM's degree record: Gujarat court rejects Kejriwal's revision plea
The former Delhi chief minister had filed the plea as part of the ongoing trial against him and fellow Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh in a criminal defamation case filed by Gujarat University for allegedly claiming that the varsity possibly issued fake degrees to Modi and the PM's degress could be fake.
July 4, 2026MACT awards Rs 1.32 cr compensation to kin of two software engineers killed in 2018 road accident
Challapalli Lekhi Chaitanya (27) and Mannem Venkata Sai Kumar (24), employees of Hexaware Technologies in Navi Mumbai, died on December 24 that year after their car rammed into a truck ahead that suddenly applied brakes on a bridge near Tembari village in Raigad district.
July 4, 20262020 Delhi riots: Court denies bail to student activists Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam in larger-conspiracy case
Khalid and Imam moved the bail pleas contending that their continued incarceration without the commencement of the trial violates their fundamental right to liberty.
July 4, 2026Court acquits man in rape case as victim remains untraceable
During the trial, the prosecution examined only two witnesses. Despite multiple summonses, the complainant could not be located to depose before the court, forcing the prosecution to close its evidence.
July 4, 2026Celebratory firing murder case: Bihar BJP MLA Raju Kumar Singh gets 4-year jail
Earlier on Friday, Singh had urged the court to release him on probation, arguing that he had no intention to cause death and had an otherwise unblemished record as a public representative.
July 4, 2026Thane MACT grants Rs 19.2 lakh compensation to man injured in 2018 accident
MACT member R V Mohite on Thursday directed the insurer, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Co. Ltd, to pay the compensation at an interest rate of 9 per cent per annum from the date of the petition at first instance and then recover it from the owner of the vehicle involved in the accident due to a breach of policy terms.
July 4, 20263 sentenced to life imprisonment in home guard's murder case in Himachal's Mandi
Sessions Judge Abira Basu further sentenced the three convicts, namely Sanjay, Manish Kumar and Pankaj Soni, residents of Sarkaghat, for three years' rigorous imprisonment and also imposed a fine of Rs 30000 for voluntarily causing hurt to a public servant to deter them from performing their official duties.
July 4, 2026