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New Delhi, March 18 – The Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) has directed that Colonel Purohit Prasad Shrikant's retirement be put on hold until a decision is made on his complaint seeking consideration for promotion and other service benefits following his acquittal in the 2008 Malegaon blast case.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...

Kollam, March 17 – In a significant verdict that has brought a measure of closure to a case that shocked Kerala, the Kollam Additional Sessions Court on Tuesday found G. Sandeep guilty of the brutal murder of young doctor Vandana Das.The incident dates back to May 10, 2023, when Vandana Das, a...

Gir Somnath, March 16 A special court in Veraval, in Gujarat's Gir Somnath district, on Monday convicted five people and acquitted 35 others in the 2016 Una flogging case, in which four Dalit men were beaten for trying to skin the carcass of a cow, triggering massive protests across the country...

New Delhi, March 16 The Delhi High Court on Monday granted time to former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia and 21 others to respond to the CBI's petition challenging their discharge in the liquor policy case.Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma listed the CBI's petition...

New Delhi, March 16 The Delhi High Court on Monday granted time to former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia, and 21 others to respond to the CBI's petition challenging their discharge in the liquor policy case.Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma listed the CBI's petition...

New Delhi, March 13 A Delhi court has convicted a man in the 2022 murder case of a sanitary shop owner over a property dispute, while his associate was found guilty of destroying the evidence of the crime.Additional Sessions Judge Shivali Bansal was hearing a case against Kamal Sharma, who was...

Lakhimpur Kheri (UP), March 13 A court here has sentenced a father-son duo to life imprisonment for murdering a man in Chaukhriya village in 2018.District government counsel, criminal, Arvind Tripathi said on Friday that two others were acquitted in the murder case of villager Ramesh Yadav...

Kota, March 12 A court for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes here on Thursday sentenced a 65-year-old man, his three sons, and six other relatives to life imprisonment for the murder of the brother of a Rajasthan Police constable seven years ago, due to rivalry in a local cooperative society...

New Delhi, March 12 The Supreme Court on Thursday granted bail to two individuals accused in the killing of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala in 2022.A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta granted relief to Pawan Bishnoi, an alleged associate of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, and Jagtar...

Los Angeles, March 11 – Disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein has responded to the allegations made by actress Gwyneth Paltrow nearly a decade ago.Paltrow's allegations against him helped trigger the global #MeToo movement, according to ‘Female First UK’.Weinstein, 73, the former film producer...

Kochi, March 10 – The Kerala High Court on Tuesday sought the response of Malayalam actor Dileep in an appeal filed by the state government challenging his acquittal in the 2017 actress assault case and seeking enhanced punishment for those convicted.A division bench of Justices A. K...

Seoul, March 10 – Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol refused to meet with representatives of a special investigative committee on the 2022 crowd crush on Tuesday, despite their visit to the Seoul Detention Centre to persuade him to attend a hearing.The National Commission for the...

Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu), March 7 The Coimbatore district Women's Court on Saturday found three men guilty of sexually assaulting a college student near the airport here and sentenced them to life imprisonment.The three men, arrested in connection with the crime in November 2025, were...

New Delhi, March 6 A Delhi court has acquitted a man accused of negligence in a 27-year-old incident where a roof collapsed, resulting in the death of a labourer and injuries to several others.The case dates back to September 16, 1999, when police received information about the collapse of a...

Srinagar, March 6 A local court here has directed the framing of charges against National Conference president Farooq Abdullah and other accused in the alleged Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) scam case.In a five-page order passed earlier this week, Chief Judicial Magistrate of...

Mangaluru (Karnataka), March 5 A court in Mangaluru on Thursday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for the murder of a 47-year-old man in Dakshina Kannada district in 2022.The II Additional District and Sessions Judge, Jagadish V N, convicted the accused, Murugan, under Section 302 of the...

New Delhi, March 2 A Delhi court has acquitted three men accused of killing a man under the Janakpuri District Centre flyover in 2015, giving them the benefit of the doubt after finding material inconsistencies in the prosecution's case.Additional Sessions Judge Pooja Talwar was hearing a case...

Alappuzha (Kerala), February 28 A court on Saturday sentenced two CPI(M) activists to five years of rigorous imprisonment for attempting to murder a BJP worker in Thaneermukkom here in 2018.Alappuzha Additional District and Sessions Judge Suhaib M sentenced Akhil (32) and Vishnu (30), both...

Thiruvananthapuram, February 28 A special court on Saturday sentenced a former temple priest to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, claiming that he was performing rituals to ward off evil spirits.The Additional Sessions Court (POCSO Act cases) in Thiruvananthapuram...