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Pithoragarh, April 11 A court here has ordered the registration of an FIR against former IPS officer Lokeshwar Singh for allegedly stripping and beating an RTI activist who had raised a grievance regarding a sewage overflow from the family quarters of the Police Lines.Laxmi Datt Joshi, a...

Jalna, Apr 11 A court in the Jalna district of Maharashtra has sentenced a man and his brother to life imprisonment for murdering the former's 17-year-old daughter in 2022 over an issue related to her proposed marriage.The girl's prospective in-laws wanted her parents to transfer some land in...

New Delhi, April 10 The Centre informed the Delhi High Court on Friday that steps have been taken in accordance with the law to block certain tweets by journalist Rana Ayyub, which were allegedly derogatory and sensitive to religious sentiments.In a note submitted to Justice Purushaindra Kumar...

Kolkata, April 9 – The Enforcement Directorate, Kolkata Zonal Office, recently conducted searches at eight premises across Kolkata in a case linked to Biswajit Podder alias Sona Pappu, Jay S. Kamdar, and others, the central investigating agency said in a statement on Thursday.During the...

Palghar, April 9 A man who escaped from police custody while being presented in a court in Mumbai was arrested in the Bolinj area of Palghar district, a police official said on Thursday.Harisar Anthony Joseph (47) escaped from custody on Tuesday while being taken to the sessions court in...

Prayagraj (UP), April 8 The Allahabad High Court has observed that a wife and her relatives cannot be held liable for abetting her husband's suicide merely because they filed cases against him over a matrimonial dispute.Justice Sameer Jain, allowing the petition of wife Megha Kirti, said that...

New Delhi, April 8 The Centre told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the two landmark judgments decriminalizing adultery and same-sex consensual relationships were based on a subjective interpretation of "constitutional morality" and should be declared as "not a good law".This submission was...

New Delhi, April 8 The Delhi High Court on Wednesday described certain tweets by journalist Rana Ayyub as "highly offensive, inflammatory, and communal" while seeking her response to a petition seeking the removal of the allegedly objectionable content from social media.Justice Purushaindra...

New Delhi, April 8 – The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea filed by Christian Michel James, alleged middleman in the AgustaWestland VVIP helicopter scam, challenging a trial court order that had rejected his application for release from prison on the grounds that he had served the...

Thane, April 8 A court in Thane, Maharashtra, has acquitted eight men accused of attempting to murder a police constable, citing the victim's inability to identify his attackers and the fact that key prosecution witnesses turned hostile.In her judgment delivered on April 6, Additional Sessions...

Mumbai, April 8 The Bombay High Court has upheld a trial court's order to frame murder charges against eight police personnel in the alleged custodial death of city youth Agnello Valdaris in 2014.A bench of Justices A S Gadkari and Shyam Chandak, in an order passed on Monday, said the...

Mumbai, April 7 The Bombay High Court has upheld a trial court's order to frame murder charges against eight police personnel in connection with the alleged custodial death of Agnello Valdaris in 2014.A bench of Justices A S Gadkari and Shyam Chandak, in an order passed on Monday, said the...

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...

Raipur, April 7 – In a swift and decisive operation against illegal gambling, the Raipur rural police arrested two individuals and seized assets worth approximately Rs 42.14 lakh, including a luxury Mercedes car, an iPhone, and cash, officials said on Tuesday.Acting on specific information...

New Delhi, April 7 Madhya Pradesh Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti moved the Delhi High Court on Tuesday challenging his conviction and three-year jail sentence in a cheating case involving the forging of bank records to obtain illegal interest payments between 1998 and 2011.Justice Swarana Kanta...

New Delhi, April 7 – The Supreme Court has granted bail to an accused who was booked under provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Act, 2021, observing that the Allahabad High Court had overlooked crucial aspects while rejecting his...

Kolkata, April 6 – The Calcutta High Court on Monday quashed a first information report (FIR) filed by the West Bengal Police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) against the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a coal smuggling case, which the central agency was investigating.The FIR...

Muzaffarnagar (UP), April 6 A fast-track court in Muzaffarnagar on Monday awarded the death sentence to three individuals and seven years of imprisonment to another in connection with the abduction and murder of a lawyer in 2019, officials said.Additional District and Sessions Judge (Fast...

New Delhi, April 6 The Supreme Court has ruled that merely using abusive language such as the word "bastard" during a heated argument would not constitute an offense under Section 294(b) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).A bench of Justices Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Manoj Misra made this...

Raipur, April 6 – The Chhattisgarh High Court has sentenced Amit Jogi, the son of former chief minister Ajit Jogi, to life imprisonment for the 2003 murder of NCP leader Ramavatar Jaggi, stating that he was the "mastermind" and "driving force" behind the conspiracy.A division bench of Chief...