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Lucknow, April 10 A court here has sentenced nine people, including five Rohingya and three Bangladeshi migrants, to eight years of rigorous imprisonment after finding them guilty of illegal immigration, possession of fake documents, and human trafficking, the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad...

New Delhi, April 10 The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a fresh plea along with existing ones challenging the Election Commission's freezing of electoral rolls ahead of the upcoming assembly elections in West Bengal on April 13.The election panel has finalized and frozen the electoral...

New Delhi, April 10 The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking a direction to the Centre to stop the caste census, and criticized the petitioner for the language used in the public interest litigation (PIL)."You have used inappropriate language in your petition. Who wrote this...

Ballia (UP), April 6 A local court on Monday sentenced a man to 25 years of rigorous imprisonment in connection with a six-month-old case of kidnapping and rape of a 16-year-old girl.The court of Additional District Judge (POCSO) Pratham Kant also imposed a fine of Rs 35,000 on the accused...

Kannur (Kerala), April 6 A court on Monday acquitted seven members of the National Democratic Front in a case related to the alleged murder of a former CPI(M) worker in 2008.The Thalassery Additional Sessions Court Judge, Philip Thomas, acquitted the accused in the case concerning the death of...

Alappuzha (Kerala), April 5 Congress leader K C Venugopal has filed a defamation complaint against a man from Haryana before a court here, alleging that baseless and politically motivated accusations were made against him ahead of the upcoming Kerala Assembly elections.The case was filed...

New Delhi, April 2 A court has acquitted nine men in a case related to the 2020 Delhi riots, stating that the testimonies cannot be relied upon as they lacked specificity and were general in nature.Additional Sessions Judge Parveen Singh was hearing the case against nine individuals – Shah...

March 31, Kohima: The Principal District & Sessions Court in Kohima on Monday sentenced a 44-year-old man to six months of rigorous imprisonment after finding him guilty of sexual harassment under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code.The court also imposed a fine of 10,000 rupees, with...

New Delhi, March 31 – The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a petition filed by the Muslim side challenging the order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in the long-standing Bhojshala Temple-Kamal Maula Mosque dispute in the Dhar district.According to the cause list published on the official...

Chandigarh, March 31 The Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued notices to the Army, the Centre, and the CBI in response to a plea seeking directions for the disclosure of manuscripts, religious books, and other items allegedly seized during Operation Blue Star and handed over to the Shiromani...

Kolkata, March 30 – A fresh petition has been filed at a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Monday over the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s order on Sunday transferring 83 Block Development Officers (BDOs), who are also Returning Officers, and 184 Inspector-rank police officers...

Wellington, March 30 The identity of the nephew of one of Indira Gandhi's assassins, convicted in a drug case, was revealed after he lost a bid in a New Zealand court to keep his name secret, a local media report said.Baltej Singh, who is serving a 22-year prison sentence for importing over...

New Delhi, March 29 A court here has acquitted a man accused of attempting to murder a youth during a quarrel in northeast Delhi's Jafrabad area in 2020, saying that the prosecution failed to establish his identity as the assailant beyond a reasonable doubt.Additional Sessions Judge Kumar...

Dhar, March 28 Two judges of the Madhya Pradesh High Court inspected the Bhojshala Temple-Kamal Maula Mosque complex in Dhar on Saturday ahead of a hearing on April 2 related to the disputed 11th-century structure.Hindus consider it to be a temple of Vagadevi (Saraswati), while the Muslim...

Agartala, March 27 A man was sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Tripura for murdering his wife.Additional District and Sessions Judge of West Tripura, P P Paul, convicted Mithu Das and sentenced him to rigorous life imprisonment on Thursday.Mithu, a daily wage laborer, had been...

Kochi, March 26 The Kerala High Court on Thursday allowed the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) to close the proceedings related to the installation of a new temple flag mast at Sabarimala in 2017, after the agency said it could not find any evidence of criminal misappropriation...

Singapore, March 26 An Indian-origin man was charged in a Singapore court on Thursday for driving a luxury sports car with his two children sitting on the car's trunk.According to a report by Channel News Asia, Prem Anan Sugunakumar was charged with reckless driving that endangered the safety...

Kolkata, March 25 A top EC official in Kolkata said on Wednesday that nearly 40 per cent of the 32 lakh names that have been reviewed so far have been removed from the electoral rolls of West Bengal.Converting to actual figures, the number of electors removed after review currently stands at...

Sonbhadra (UP), March 25 A court here on Wednesday convicted a minor for murdering his stepmother over six years ago and sentenced him to life imprisonment.Government counsel Dinesh Prasad Agrahari said on September 19, 2019, Anirudh Gupta, a resident of Ajnia village, had filed a written...

Mirzapur (UP), March 23 A court here on Monday sentenced a man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment in a rape case involving a woman with hearing impairment, police said.The court also imposed a fine of Rs 60,000 on the convict.On March 28, 2018, a complaint was lodged at the Chunar police...