Tag Archives: court

Udaipur : A Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court in Udaipur, on Wednesday,  ordered to give away 56.863 grams of gold to the custody of CGST-Chittorgah, that was raised by public contribution 55 years ago to weigh (tuladaan) the erstwhile Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shashtri on his proposed visit to the Chittorgarh ... Read More »

The court halted the conviction after the Prosecutor General requested the apex court to review verdict against him last Sunday. The order requested state authorities not to take any action against Nasheed until it reviews his verdict as requested by the PG’s office. The judgement comes two days before former ... Read More »

The Court has fixed January 4 and 5 for recording the statement of the complainant. Also, first witness of prosecution will also be examined by the Court. Pachauri has been charged with assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty; using word, gesture or act intended ... Read More »

  NEW DELHI:  The Supreme Court on Friday put on hold the Uttarakhand High Court order imposing a blanket ban on the issuance of ‘fatwas’ by the religious bodies. The bench of Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta stayed the High Court order on a petition by Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind challenging the ... Read More »

The enforcement order gives 13 banks the legal option of entering the UK-based properties of Vijay Mallya, who is fighting extradition to India on fraud and money- laundering charges. Problems of liquor baron Vijay Mallya just got bigger as a UK High Court judge issued an enforcement order in favour ... Read More »

U.S. President Donald Trump has hailed a Supreme Court ruling upholding his travel ban which covers people from several Muslim-majority countries. The White House issued a statement saying the ruling was “a tremendous victory for the American People and the Constitution”. The travel ban has been fully in place since ... Read More »

A special court in Mumbai has issued a non-bailable warrant against diamantaire Nirav Modi and his family members in the over Rs 13,000 crore PNB scam case, after taking cognizance of a charge sheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate last month. The ED had last week moved the special court, ... Read More »

The accused, Imtiyaz Ansari, Haider Ali, Mujib Ullah, Omair Siddiqui and Azharuddin Qureishi, were found guilty and convicted on May 25 by Special NIA judge Manoj Kumar Sinha. The court was convinced that the intention was to cause heavy casualties and maximum punishment under the law followed.  The world-renowned Buddhist pilgrimage ... Read More »

The UPA may have gone out of power 4 years ago, but details of scams during its regime continue to surface at regular intervals. While on the one hand the CBI is fast progressing into investigations of Air Asia flouting regulations and bribing ministers, the threat of arrest seems to ... Read More »

NEW DELHI:  A PIL was filed yesterday in the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored CBI probe into deaths of protesters during the anti-Sterlite rally at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu. The plea, which is likely to come up for hearing during next week, was filed by lawyer G S Mani. It has ... Read More »

ISLAMABAD:  Nawaz Sharif today warned that those who dragged his daughter Maryam to Pakistan’s anti-corruption court in the Panama papers case will bear the consequences of their actions. Three corruption cases were launched last year against the deposed Pakistan prime minister and his family on their posh properties in London which were ... Read More »

The situation in Tuticorin remains tense but under control. Protestors set buses on fire at several places. One protestor died as security forces tried to keep angry protesting crowds under control. The state administration in Tamil Nadu has declared prohibitory orders under Section 144 in the violence hit areas of ... Read More »

Philip Wilson, the archbishop of Adelaide, is expected to be sentenced by the court in June. He faces a maximum penalty of two years in jail. He was accused of covering up a serious indictable offence by another priest, James Fletcher, after being told about it in 1976 when he ... Read More »

Bank of India is the second lender bank to file a recovery law suit in the Hong Kong court since third week of April. Earlier, Punjab National Bank had moved a recovery writ in a Hong Kong court against Nirav Modi for an amount over five million US Dollars.  India has ... Read More »

In-camera proceedings would be held. Next date of hearing in the case is July 9. The victim’s father had moved the apex court earlier, seeking shifting of the trial to Chandigarh and handing over investigation to the CBI citing threat to the family, a friend and their lawyer. An eight-year-old ... Read More »

A bench headed by Chief Justice of India had stayed the trial in the case till today. The court will hear the plea of the victim’s father for shifting the trial to Chandigarh and the plea of the accused seeking handing over the probe to CBI. The victim’s father had ... Read More »

Attorney General K K Venugopal said the apex court cannot make rules or guidelines which go against the law passed by the legislature. Venugopal also pointed out that the SC/ST verdict had resulted in loss of lives and the case be referred to a larger bench. The Supreme court on ... Read More »

Venugopal also pointed out that the SC/ST verdict had resulted in loss of life and the case be referred to a larger bench. The Supreme court on the other hand said that it was “100 per cent” in favour of protecting the rights of these communities and punishing those guilty ... Read More »

The Supreme Court has asked Karnataka to see how much water can be released to Tamil Nadu and asked it to apprise the court by the 8th of this month. The Apex Court also asked the Centre to apprise it on May 8 about steps being taken for setting up ... Read More »

Mumbai: Bombay High Court on Friday issued notice to Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) asking how it plans to provide water for maintaining the Pune stadium ground for IPL matches. CSK’s home matches were shifted out of Chennai to Pune recently due to anti-IPL protests in the state of Tamil Nadu. ... Read More »