judicial proceedings

Prayagraj (UP), April 12 The Allahabad High Court has dismissed a writ petition seeking to quash an 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 expressed its extreme...

New Delhi, April 11 – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), working in coordination with the Ministry of External Affairs and the Ministry of Home Affairs, has facilitated the return of the wanted fugitive, Sahil Chauhan, from Thailand, officials confirmed on Saturday.Chauhan, who is...

Bhubaneswar, April 10 A POCSO court in Odisha's Angul district on Friday sentenced a man to death for raping and killing a 4-year-old girl.The death sentence was pronounced by Additional District Judge-cum-Special Court under the POCSO Act, Angul, Judge Soumya Priyadarshini.The convict...

New Delhi, April 10 The Supreme Court on Friday stayed criminal proceedings and summons against a priest, who claimed that Christianity was the only true religion.A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government on a plea by Reverend Father Vineet...

Thane, April 9 Advocates in Thane on Thursday said they would continue their protest against the proposed establishment of a separate district and sessions court in the Mira-Bhayander area.The decision was taken by the Thane District Courts Bar Association (TDCBA) at a special general body...

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...

New Delhi, April 7 A Delhi court on Tuesday granted bail to alleged conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar in a money laundering case related to the AIADMK's "two leaves" election symbol.Special Judge Vishal Gogne granted the relief to him on a personal bond and a surety bond of Rs 5 lakh each...

Madurai (Tamil Nadu), April 6 In a landmark judgment, a court here on Monday awarded the death penalty to nine police personnel in the sensational 2020 Sathankulam custodial death case.The father and son, P. Jayaraj and J. Bennix, were allegedly assaulted by the convicted police officers in...

Madurai (Tamil Nadu), April 6 A court here on Monday sentenced nine police personnel to death for the brutal custodial torture and murder of a father-son duo in Sathankulam, Tuticorin.First Additional District and Sessions Judge G Muthukumaran classified the case as the rarest of rare...

Bilaspur, April 6 The Chhattisgarh High Court strongly criticized Amit Jogi, the son of former Chief Minister Ajit Jogi, accusing him of using "deliberate delaying tactics" to stall proceedings in the high-profile Ram Avtar Jaggi murder case.While the high court convicted Amit Jogi for...

Raipur, April 2 The Chhattisgarh High Court has sentenced Amit Jogi, son of former chief minister Ajit Jogi, to life imprisonment for the 2003 murder of NCP leader Ramavatar Jaggi.The order, dated April 2, when a division bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma...

Thane, April 6 Three Bangladeshi nationals were sentenced to 14 months in prison by a Thane court for illegal stay in India.Additional Sessions Judge R.S. Bhakare, in a judgment delivered on April 1, however, acquitted them under the Foreigners Act.Jahid Aainal Khan (23), Sapna Madan Sikdar...

New Delhi, April 2 Important cases listed in the Supreme Court on Thursday:* The Supreme Court will hear a matter concerning illegal sand mining in the National Chambal Sanctuary and the threat to endangered aquatic wildlife, on its own initiative.* The Supreme Court will also hear a case...

New Delhi, March 31 A Delhi court has imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on an applicant for filing a complaint with grammatical errors and meaningless words, stating that the application was an example of reliance on "technical intervention" or AI-driven drafting tools without human oversight...

Guwahati, March 31 Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday that the Congress "committed a grave error" by including the issue of the death of singer Zubeen Garg in its manifesto.Zubeen Garg is deeply loved by all Assamese, and it is unfortunate and sad to use his name for...

New Delhi, March 27 A Delhi court on Friday extended the NIA custody of seven foreign nationals, including six Ukrainians, accused of breaching national security, by 10 days.NIA special judge Prashant Sharma, who conducted the proceedings at the agency's headquarters here, directed the...

Prayagraj, March 27 The Allahabad High Court has stated that a married man living in a consensual live-in relationship with an adult woman does not constitute a criminal offense under the law.A division bench of Justice J J Munir and Justice Tarun Saxena made the observation while granting...

Thane, March 27 A court in Thane has sentenced a 36-year-old woman to one year in simple imprisonment for assaulting an official of the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) following a dispute over a power bill.In his judgment of March 20, a copy of which was...

Prayagraj, March 26 The Allahabad High Court has observed that claiming a particular religion to be the "only true religion" is wrong in a secular country like India and may amount to disparaging other faiths, thereby attracting provisions of law.Dismissing a petition filed by Reverend Father...

Lucknow, March 26 The Allahabad High Court on Thursday allowed the Central government to be made a party in a case related to the citizenship of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and asked it to submit relevant records on April 6.The order was passed by Justice Subhash Vidyarthi of the Lucknow...