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Prayagraj (UP), April 11 The Allahabad High Court has dismissed a writ petition seeking to quash a First Information Report (FIR) related to a planned acid attack over a property dispute.Dismissing the petition, a division bench comprising Justice JJ Munir and Justice Vinai Kumar Dwivedi...

Shimla, April 10 – In a setback to the Congress-led Himachal Pradesh government, the High Court has directed the Legislative Assembly to release the pensions and arrears of two former disqualified Congress MLAs – Rajinder Rana and Ravi Thakur – who later joined the BJP.Rana and Thakur, elected...

Indore, April 10 The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the petitioner, who has challenged Instagram's decision to discontinue end-to-end encrypted messaging from May 8, to first approach the Data Protection Board of India.In its order passed on Thursday, the Indore bench of the high court...

Panaji, April 9 The Goa state assembly by-election in Ponda was cancelled due to a "political conspiracy" between the Election Commission of India and the BJP, the Aam Aadmi Party alleged on Thursday.The Bombay High Court on Wednesday quashed the Election Commission's notification for the...

Lucknow, April 7 The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday acquitted a man who had spent 11 years in prison after being convicted in a rape case involving a minor, citing serious shortcomings in the police investigation and a lack of reliable evidence.A bench of justices Rajan Roy and Brij Raj Singh...

Prayagraj, April 7 The Allahabad High Court has refused to quash an FIR against a woman accused of defrauding a PhD aspirant of over Rs 22 lakh by promising a PhD degree and a position as an assistant professor.Dismissing a writ petition filed by Priyanka Sengar, a division bench comprising...

Jammu, April 7 J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Tuesday that modern court infrastructure is key to ensuring efficient justice delivery and strengthening public trust in the legal system.Chairing a high-level meeting to review the progress of construction of High Court complexes in the...

Mumbai, April 6 The Bombay High Court on Monday sought the response of the Deputy Director General of Shipping regarding the demand for a DNA test of the remains made by the family of a 25-year-old seafarer who was killed in the West Asia conflict.Dixit Solanki was killed on March 4 after an...

Hyderabad, April 5 State governments across the political spectrum recognize that strengthening judicial infrastructure is not optional but essential, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant said on Sunday.Addressing a gathering after laying the foundation stone for Telangana High Court Zone...

Hyderabad, April 5 – Chief Justice of India, Justice Surya Kant, said on Sunday that the upcoming complex of the Telangana High Court here would be the best high court in the country.He noted that courtrooms, administrative buildings, archives, residential infrastructure, and training...

Hyderabad, April 5 State governments across the political spectrum recognize that strengthening judicial infrastructure is not optional but essential, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant said on Sunday here.Addressing the gathering after laying the foundation stone for Telangana High Court Zone...

Amaravati, April 4 Construction projects worth nearly Rs 51,000 crore have been initiated in the Greenfield city of Amaravati, officials informed Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday.During a review meeting with officials and construction agencies at his office, the chief minister...

Hyderabad, April 3 – Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy welcomed the Supreme Court's upholding the recruitment of 563 candidates for Group I posts in Telangana on Friday.The Chief Minister stated that he views this as an affirmation of his government's transparency and sincerity...

Jabalpur, April 2 All petitions related to the 27 percent reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in Madhya Pradesh will be heard regularly for three days, starting April 27, the High Court said on Thursday.A division bench of Chief Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva and Justice Vinay Saraf...

New Delhi, April 2 A Delhi court on Thursday sentenced Madhya Pradesh Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti and a former bank employee to three years' imprisonment each in a cheating case involving the forging of bank records to obtain illegal interest payments between 1998 and 2011.Special Judge Dev...

Chennai, April 2 The Madras High Court on Thursday ruled that in matters relating to the remission and premature release of convicted prisoners, the Governor is bound by the advice of the council of ministers.A Full Bench comprising Justices A D Jagdish Chandra, G K Illanthiraiyan and Sunder...

Jaipur, April 1 Rajasthan Minister of State for Urban Development and Local Self-Government (Independent Charge), Jhabar Singh Kharra, said on Wednesday that the state government is eager to hold elections for urban local bodies as soon as possible.He stated that the government is fully...

Fazilka (Pb), March 31 Booking of an LPG cylinder helped police arrest a former Captain of the Indian Army, who had been on the run for four years after his conviction was upheld by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in his wife's murder case.Sandeep Tomar was arrested from the Pandhurna...

Prayagraj, March 30 The Allahabad High Court has granted protection to a married couple who expressed fear that they may be killed by the woman's family.The order was passed by a division bench comprising Justice JJ Munir and Justice Tarun Saxena on March 25."No individual can make an 'honor...

New Delhi, March 28 – Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva said on Saturday that Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal has once again resorted to the petty politics of playing the "victim card," this time over a judicial matter related to the excise policy.He said that in India...