Bhopal, April 3 Madhya Pradesh Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti has been disqualified from the state legislative assembly following his conviction in a case involving the tampering of bank records to secure illegal interest payments, officials said on Friday.Following deliberations on the issue on...
Raipur, April 2 – In a significant development, the Chhattisgarh High Court has delivered a major blow to Amit Jogi, the son of former Chief Minister Ajit Jogi, declaring him guilty and ordering him to surrender within three weeks in the high-profile Ramavtar Jaggi murder case.A division bench...
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Bhubaneswar, March 30 A special court for crimes against women and children (POCSO) here on Monday convicted a man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) for raping a 13-year-old girl in August 2020.Saroj Kumar Sahoo, additional sessions judge, POCSO court, Bhubaneswar, pronounced the...
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Wellington, March 30 – New Zealand's largest-ever drug bust has revived focus on Baltej Singh, the nephew of Satwant Singh – one of the two bodyguards involved in the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984 – highlighting a complex intersection of "international...
Chennai, March 27 – A special CBI court in Chennai on Friday convicted and sentenced seven individuals, including a former senior tax assistant of the Income Tax Department, to four years of rigorous imprisonment along with a total fine of Rs 2.4 lakh in a tax refund fraud case, officials said...
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Houston (US), March 21 An Indian-origin county judge has been convicted of money laundering following a jury verdict in a high-profile campaign finance case in Texas, the US state, and faces removal from office after official sentencing on June 16.K P George's conviction, a third-degree felony...
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New Delhi, March 18 – The Delhi High Court on Wednesday extended the interim suspension of Rajpal Yadav's sentence, a Bollywood actor, in connection with cheque bounce cases.Observing that the actor had already made substantial payments to the complainant company, a single-judge bench of...
Kochi, March 17 The Kerala High Court on Tuesday dismissed the plea of former state Transport Minister Antony Raju seeking suspension of his conviction in a case of tampering with evidence, saying that it was "neither in the interest of the law nor in the public interest".Justice C...
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Kochi, March 17 – In a major setback ahead of the assembly elections, the Kerala High Court on Tuesday rejected a plea by former MLA Antony Raju from Thiruvananthapuram Central, seeking to stay his conviction in a case involving tampering with court evidence.The ruling effectively prevents the...
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Kochi, March 17 The Kerala High Court on Tuesday dismissed the plea of former state Transport Minister Antony Raju seeking to suspend his conviction in the evidence tampering case, so that he can contest in the upcoming Assembly elections.Justice C Jayachandran dismissed Raju's plea, which was...
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Jodhpur, February 16 – The nearly three-decade-old 1998 Kankani blackbuck poaching case, involving Bollywood actor Salman Khan, saw a significant development on Monday after the Rajasthan High Court announced a change in the bench hearing the case.Justice Baljinder Singh Sandhu, who had been...
New Delhi, February 16 In a relief for actor Rajpal Yadav, the Delhi High Court suspended his sentence in the cheque bounce cases until March 18 and allowed him to be released from jail.Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma passed the order after noting that Yadav had deposited Rs 1.5 crore in the bank...