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Mumbai, April 9 A special court here on Thursday denied bail to a local cricket coach, accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl trainee on multiple occasions, citing the seriousness of the offense.Special Judge Surekha Sinha, while hearing cases under the Protection of Children from...

Kochi, April 8 – In a development that highlights the legal limitations on electoral participation for those in custody, a court in Ernakulam, Kerala, on Wednesday refused to grant interim bail to filmmaker Ranjith, who is currently in jail in connection with an alleged sexual assault case...

New Delhi, April 8 Describing a decade-long dispute between estranged spouses as "a matrimonial battle of Mahabharata," the Supreme Court has provided a "final resolution" to the bitter legal conflict and annulled the marriage.Observing that the marriage was "dead for all practical purposes,"...

Madurai, April 6 In a landmark judgment, a court here on Monday handed the death penalty to nine police personnel in the sensational 2020 Sathankulam custodial death case.The father-son duo, P Jayaraj and J Bennix, died after they were assaulted by the convicted police personnel in...

New Delhi, April 6 The Supreme Court on Monday exercised its plenary power to transfer cases related to the gherao and attack on seven judicial officers involved in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Malda district to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).A bench of Chief...

New Delhi, April 6 The Supreme Court on Monday deferred to the first week of May the hearing on a petition filed by the CBI challenging the suspension of Kuldeep Singh Sengar's life imprisonment in the 2017 Unnao rape case.A bench comprising Chief Justice Sura Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi...

Islamabad, April 4 – Human rights lawyers and advocates have sharply criticised the recent ruling by Pakistan's Federal Constitutional Court, which upheld the marriage of a minor Christian girl, Maria Shahbaz, to a Muslim man accused of kidnapping her, while rejecting a habeas corpus petition...

Kochi, April 4 – Film director Ranjith was taken into police custody on Saturday and will remain in custody until Monday in connection with a sexual assault complaint filed by a young actress. Investigators are expected to begin detailed evidence collection in the coming days after his bail plea...

Malappuram (Kerala), April 4 – A person has been taken into custody after the gunman and driver of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor were allegedly attacked by a five-member group at Wandoor here, police said on Saturday.According to Wandoor Police, a case has been registered, and one person is...

New Delhi, April 2 A 24-year-old man, accused in a kidnapping case, is alleged to have escaped from police custody through a bathroom ventilation window of a guest house in Mahipalpur, a southwestern Delhi area, official sources said on Thursday.The accused, identified as Mohammad Sahidur...

Akola (Maharashtra), April 2 – A police officer stationed at the Civil Lines police station in Akola, Maharashtra, has been accused of demanding sexual favours from a woman while she was in police custody, leading to public outrage and swift departmental action.The woman was arrested by the...

Gonda (UP), April 1 A Government Railway Police constable lost both his legs after being hit by a moving train as he chased a fleeing suspect at the Gonda Junction railway station, officials said on Wednesday.The incident occurred around midnight on Tuesday at platform number one when Akash...

Meerut, March 24 Three women have been arrested here for allegedly attempting to free a family member from police custody and attacking a female constable, police said on Tuesday.They said a man named Jamal, a resident of Shastri Nagar, was arrested by Nauchandi police in connection with an...

Kochi, March 24 – The Special Investigation Team (SIT) approached the Kerala High Court on Tuesday, seeking to overturn the bail granted to tantri Kantarar Rajeevar in the second case related to the alleged theft of gold from Sabarimala, further intensifying the legal scrutiny surrounding the...

Faridabad, March 23 An inmate involved in more than two dozen cases threw hot oil in another prisoner's face at the Neemka jail here on Monday, police said.The prisoner, who was severely burned and suffered damage to his left eye, was rushed to Badshah Khan Civil Hospital and was later...

Madurai, March 23 A local court here on Monday found all nine accused police officers guilty in the case of custodial torture of a man and his son, which led to their deaths in Sathankulam, Thoothukudi district in 2020.Judge G Muthukumaran of the First Additional District and Sessions Court...

Jaipur, March 23 – The Supreme Court of India has cancelled the interim bail granted to Babulal Katara, a suspended member of the Rajasthan Public Service Commission, who was arrested in connection with a paper leak case. The decision came after the court considered objections raised in a...

Panaji, March 23 – The South Goa Police arrested 20-year-old Soham Sushant Naik in the early hours of Monday following a strong public outcry over an alleged sex scandal involving 25 to 30 minor girls. Naik, a resident of Madegal-Cacora and the son of a BJP municipal councillor, was taken into...

Gandhinagar, March 18 The Gujarat government on Wednesday introduced the 'Gujarat Uniform Civil Code, 2026' bill in the state assembly, which aims to regulate laws related to marriage, divorce, inheritance, and live-in relationships, regardless of religion, caste, community, or gender.The bill...

Thane, March 18 Thane Police has arrested jailed gangster Ravi Pujari in a 2017 extortion and firing case in the city and obtained his custody from a local court, officials said.The 57-year-old gangster was produced before a special MCOCA court on Wednesday, which remanded him in police...