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Thane, March 18 A court in Thane, Maharashtra, has acquitted two men accused of the murder of a shepherd nearly three years ago, citing a lack of evidence and the failure of a key eyewitness to support the prosecution's case.In his judgment delivered on March 16, Principal District and...

Gurugram, March 16 The court here convicted two individuals for robbing and fatally shooting a taxi driver, sentencing them to life imprisonment, while a third individual was sentenced to three years in prison for providing illegal weapons to the assailants, police said.According to police, on...

New Delhi, March 16 A court here has overturned the conviction of a school van driver in a case of alleged sexual assault on a minor boy, holding that the trial court failed to follow the prescribed legal procedure.According to the prosecution, the father of a seven-year-old boy complained to...

Srinagar, March 13 A court in the Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir has acquitted three individuals accused of harboring terrorists who killed a BJP leader and his two family members five years ago.District and sessions judge Mir Wajah, who is also the special judge designated under the...

New Delhi, March 13 A Delhi court on Friday dismissed an application seeking the registration of an FIR against BJP MLA Kapil Mishra and others in connection with an alleged incident linked to the 2020 northeast Delhi riots.Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Ashwani Panwar dismissed the plea...

Kolkata, March 12 Taking a stern view of a sessions court judge not following proper procedure in convicting and awarding the death sentence to an accused, the Calcutta High Court on Thursday acquitted him of the charge of murder.A division bench said that the court of the Additional District...

Mumbai, March 12 A Mumbai court on Thursday dismissed the plea of two brothers accused of assaulting doctors at a city hospital following the death of their father in 2021, ruling that there was sufficient evidence to frame charges against them.The plea for discharge by brothers Roshan and...

New Delhi, March 10 Rajya Sabha MP Ujjwal Deorao Nikam urged the government on Tuesday to consider providing limited administrative flexibility to courts handling cases under the POCSO Act, in order to address the psychological hesitation faced by some male child victims when giving evidence...

Anand/Gandhinagar, March 7. Police in the Anand district of Gujarat have secured convictions in all seven cases registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act between March and December 2024. Six offenders were sentenced to life imprisonment, while another was given...

Mumbai, March 4 Divorce cannot be granted based solely on alleged cruelty, based on WhatsApp chats, without giving the spouse a chance to respond, the Bombay High Court has said.A bench of Justices Bharati Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande last week overturned an order passed by the Nashik...

New Delhi, March 3 A court here has acquitted a man accused of raping a woman under the pretext of marriage, citing insufficient evidence to frame charges under the alleged offenses.Additional Sessions Judge Harjeet Singh Jaspal was hearing a case registered in 2017 under sections 376 (rape)...

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...

New Delhi, February 28 – Senior advocate Kapil Sibal welcomed the Delhi court's decision to acquit former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, and several others in the CBI's excise policy case on Saturday, calling it "a very important decision" and...

New Delhi, February 27 Courts cannot allow a narrative to replace the discipline of evidence, and however serious the allegations may appear, they must withstand scrutiny under established legal principles, a judge said on Friday while discharging Telangana Jagruthi president K Kavitha and 22...

New Delhi, February 27 Delhi BJP leader Manoj Tiwari on Friday said the legal battle in the excise policy case was far from over and mocked former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, suggesting even his "tears should be tested in a lab".Earlier in the day, the Rouse Avenue Court discharged...

Kozhikode (Kerala), February 27 A Kerala court on Friday sentenced a 41-year-old man to a cumulative 53 years in prison for the aggravated sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl at her residence near Perambra here in 2023.Judge Devan K Menon of the Nadapuram Fast Track Special Court sentenced...

New Delhi, February 27 The CBI has failed to establish a prima facie case of manipulation against former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, a court here said on Friday, while discharging the AAP leader in the politically charged matter.Special Judge Jitendra Singh noted the allegation...

Thiruvananthapuram, February 27 A court here on Friday sentenced a man to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of ₹50,000 for murdering his father in Nedumangad in July 2022.Thiruvananthapuram Additional Sessions Court Judge K P Anil Kumar found Vinod guilty of killing his father, Antony...

New Delhi, February 27 The following are the key observations of the Delhi court on Friday while discharging former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia, and 21 others in the liquor policy case:* The prosecution's case does not even disclose the threshold of prima...