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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 »

  Prakash was allegedly assaulted during a meeting at Kejriwal’s official residence on the night of February 19.  Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal issued the summons after taking cognizance of the charge sheet filed by the Delhi Police on August 13. The court said there were sufficient grounds to ... Read More »

Prakash was allegedly assaulted during a meeting at Kejriwal’s official residence on February 19 night.  Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal issued the summons after taking cognisance of the charge sheet filed by the Delhi Police on August 13. The court said there were sufficient grounds to establish the alleged charges ... Read More »

Tariq Anjum was accused of offering shelter the key convicts in Delhi.  The court convicted Aneeq Shafique Sayeed and Md Akbar Ismail Chowdhari and acquitted Farooq Sharfuddin Tarkash and Mohammad Sadiq Israr Shaik in a verdict issued on September 4 at Cherlapally jail. Hearing on Quantum of sentence will be ... Read More »

Special CBI judge O P Saini agreed to hear the plea at 2 pm today after the probe agency told the court that custodial interrogation of Karti Chidambaram was required in the matter. Earlier, on August 7, the Delhi court had extended till October 8 the interim protection from arrest ... Read More »

The next hearing in the extradition case is on September 12. Meanwhile, on Mallya’s plea, the UK court asked the Indian authorities to submit a video within three weeks of Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail cell where they plan to keep Vijay Mallya post-extradition. The extradition hearing kicked off in December last and ... Read More »

Patidar quota agitation leader Hardik Patel and two others have been sentenced to 2 years behind bars by a Gujarat court. The prison terms are linked to a case of rioting and arson in Visnagar town in July 2015. Hardik was held guilty along with Lalji Patel and A K ... Read More »

Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram were named in the chargesheet filed by the CBI in the case on July 19. CBI had filed a supplementary chargesheet before the special judge, who had fixed it for consideration on July 31. 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 »