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Two 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, 2026Absconding PFI case accused surrenders before court in Kerala's Kochi
The court remanded him to judicial custody till July 31, following which he was shifted to the Ernakulam District Jail at Kakkanad.
July 3, 2026Kerala: Court grants bail to DYFI leader in 2024 poll fake post case
Kozhikode Principal Sessions Judge V S Bindukumari granted bail to Jithin Bhaskar, who was arrested by the Special Investigation Team on June 16.
July 3, 2026Court stays functioning of AMMA ad hoc committee
Menon, who was the president of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (AMMA), approached the court contending that the formation of the ad hoc committee was contrary to the bylaws of the charitable organisation formed for the welfare of actors in the Malayalam film industry.
July 3, 2026Baba Siddique murder: Kin moves court seeking direction to cops to take Anmol Bishnoi's custody
The application, filed by Siddique's daughter Shehzeen Ziauddin Siddique, alleged that police were avoiding taking Anmol Bishnoi's custody due to "external pressure".
July 3, 2026Delhi court orders FIR against 2 DU professors over research publication fraud
The complainant alleged that the two professors persuaded her to pay Rs 1 lakh in cash as publication charges and travel expenses, and collected her original research papers, promising to publish them in reputed academic journals.
July 3, 2026Kerala court sentences man to 34 years for sexually assaulting 11-year-old girl
Idukki Fast Track Court Judge Nobel D S sentenced the man to a total of 34 years in prison under various provisions of the IPC and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
July 3, 2026Honeymoon murder: Sonam wouldn't have got bail if CBI probed case from outset, say victim's kin
Sonam was arrested on June 9 last year from Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh, on charges of conspiracy to murder her husband Raja Raghuvanshi. She remained in judicial custody in Shillong District Jail for more than 10 months before being released on bail.
July 3, 2026MACT awards Rs 33 lakh compensation to kin of school peon killed in 2020 road accident
Sunil Dattatray Jadhav was riding pillion on a motorcycle on the old Pune-Mumbai highway in Khandala on October 26 that year when the rider lost control due to excessive speed, leading to the two-wheeler slipping. Jadhav sustained severe head injuries and died on October 29.
July 3, 2026Man sentenced to life for brother's murder
Vasant Rupji Dolare was scolding his daughter for teasing his son, which led the accused, who lived next door, to suspect that the reprimand was directed at him.
July 3, 2026Delhi court extends judicial custody of 6 foreigners in national security breach case
Meanwhile, the court noted that the six foreign nationals had consented to provide their voice samples in response to the National Investigation Agency's (NIA's) plea seeking the same.
July 3, 2026Celebratory firing murder case: Convicted BJP MLA Raju Kumar Singh seeks release on probation
In its 97-page verdict convicting Singh, the court had observed that "acts of celebratory firing during festivities are a scourge which often cause fatalities in our country".
July 3, 2026Pune realtor's murder: Accused Siya Goyal, Chaudhary remanded in judicial custody till Jul 16
The prosecution sought three-day extension of police custody, arguing that data recovered from the mobile phones of Goyal and Chaudhary contained chats in signs and coded language, and that their custodial interrogation was necessary to decipher the conversations.
July 3, 2026Ordinary marital discord not cruelty: Thane court acquits 3 in suicide abetment case
Additional Sessions Judge Pankaj A Patki on Thursday ruled that the prosecution failed to establish specific instances of cruelty or a direct link between the actions of the accused and the woman's decision to end her life.
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