criminal prosecution

Thane, March 31 A special CBI court in Thane has sentenced a former Income Tax officer to six months of rigorous imprisonment (RI) in a 19-year-old case involving accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 from a person to finalize a tax assessment.Special Judge (CBI) D S Deshmukh also imposed a fine of...

New Delhi, March 30 The Enforcement Directorate has investigated 1,105 cases of bank fraud under the PMLA and has attached proceeds of crime worth Rs 64,920 crore, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday.In the Lok Sabha, Sitharaman also said the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act...

Ahmedabad, March 30 – A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Ahmedabad on Monday convicted a private individual in a Disproportionate Assets case and sentenced her to two years of Rigorous Imprisonment along with a fine of Rs 20,000.The court found Jasodaben Rameshbhai Vadadia guilty...

Coimbatore, March 28 – A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court has sentenced six individuals involved in the Coimbatore overseas job scam to varying jail terms ranging from 14 years to four years, along with fines, an official said on Saturday.The Chief Judicial Magistrate in...

New Delhi, March 28 Two alleged members of the notorious Himanshu Bhau gang were arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police from Maharashtra, an official said on Saturday.The accused, Lakshya and Neeraj, were wanted in multiple criminal cases, including a firing incident in Delhi carried...

Kathmandu, March 28 – The newly elected government of Nepal has arrested former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak in connection with a culpable homicide case linked to the suppression of Gen Z protests, which resulted in the deaths of several protesters...

New Delhi, March 27 – The Supreme Court has overturned a bail order granted by the Patna High Court to a man accused in a dowry death case, deeming the order "wholly unsustainable" and highlighting a "mechanical approach" adopted in such serious offenses.A bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and...

Itanagar, March 26 Police in the Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh have arrested the prime accused in a double murder case, an official said.On March 5, a double murder case was registered at Kamlao, within the Manmao police station limits, under Section 103 (1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya...

New Delhi, March 25 The Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed a dowry harassment case against a woman's in-laws and sister-in-law in Uttar Pradesh, stating that vague allegations in matrimonial disputes should not be allowed to trigger criminal prosecution against a husband's relatives.A bench of...

Mumbai, March 24 – A high-level committee that investigated the 2024 Ghatkopar hoarding collapse has recommended that FIRs be registered against police and civic officials, as well as advertisers and engineers, citing a "criminal conspiracy" and regulatory failures that led to 17 deaths.The...

Kochi, March 19 The NIA has approached a court seeking to overturn the bail granted to a key conspirator in the 2010 attack in which Professor T J Joseph had his hand chopped off, after a fresh criminal case was registered against him in Aluva.The agency moved the NIA court against M K Nazar...

New Delhi, March 19 The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed a First Information Report (FIR) and subsequent proceedings against YouTuber Elvish Yadav, who was arrested for allegedly using snake venom at a rave party in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, in 2023, and said the case cannot be sustained in law.A...

Gir Somnath (Gujarat), March 17 A special court on Tuesday sentenced five convicts in the 2016 Una flogging case, in which four Dalit men were beaten for attempting to skin the carcass of a cow, to five years in prison and imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on each of them.A day earlier, the special...

Washington, March 17 – US President Donald Trump announced a new federal task force to tackle fraud in government programs, naming Vice President JD Vance to lead what he described as a “whole-of-government” effort.“This is a very significant undertaking,” Trump said from the Oval Office...

Dubai, March 15 The UAE ordered the arrest of 35 individuals on Sunday, including 19 Indians, for publishing video clips on social media platforms that contained misleading and fabricated content amid regional tensions due to the Israel-US-Iran war.The official news agency of the United Arab...

Shimla, March 11 – In a significant move to return ill-gotten gains to rightful claimants, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Shimla has successfully recovered immovable properties worth Rs 1.69 crore from M/s Arvind Casting Pvt. Ltd. in the bank fraud case, and transferred them to the State...

London, March 11 A British-Pakistani man nicknamed "Killer" and his two younger brothers have been convicted 18 years after they sexually abused four children and a woman in northern England, the UK's National Crime Agency has said.Amar Ilyas, 41, Kamran Ilyas, 38, and Kamar Ilyas, 39, from...

Singapore, March 11 A Singapore court on Wednesday charged an Indian national with defaming a senior minister and attempting to promote ill feelings between racial groups.Jay Ish'haq Rajoo, 59, is accused of defaming senior minister Lee Hsien Loong, who is also a former prime minister, in a...

Ahmedabad, March 10 – A Special NDPS Court in Ahmedabad on Tuesday sentenced a Zambian and a Nigerian national to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment in connection with the recovery of 2.757 kg of heroin in 2021, officials of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) said.The Special Court punished...

Coimbatore, March 7 – A court here on Saturday sentenced three men to life imprisonment for the gang rape of a 20-year-old college student near the Coimbatore International Airport in November 2025.The judgment was delivered by Judge V. Sundararaj of the Mahila Court (in-charge), who found the...