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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...

New Delhi, April 9 The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has dismissed a complaint alleging a manufacturing defect in a Jaguar Land Rover vehicle after finding no evidence that the failure of the driver-side airbag to deploy during an accident was due to any inherent defect.A...

New Delhi, April 8 The NHRC said on Wednesday that it has issued a notice to the Gujarat police chief over reports that a journalist was allegedly detained last month by police authorities in an unlawful manner and also subjected to "physical torture".The journalist was allegedly stripped...

Jabalpur, April 6 Sanjay Pathak, an MLA from the ruling BJP and a mining baron, issued an unconditional apology through his lawyer in the Madhya Pradesh High Court in a criminal contempt case on Monday. However, the High Court directed him to appear in person at the next hearing on April 21.A...

Mumbai, April 6 – The National Commission for Women heard the suo motu case concerning the song “Sarke Chunarr Teri”, featuring Nora Fatehi and Sanjay Dutt.The commission’s chairperson, Vijaya Rahatkar, presided over the meeting. Rakib Alam, the lyricist; Prem, the director; and Gautam K. M...

Alappuzha (Kerala), April 5 Congress leader K C Venugopal has filed a defamation complaint against a man from Haryana before a court here, alleging that baseless and politically motivated accusations were made against him ahead of the upcoming Kerala Assembly elections.The case was filed...

Jaipur, April 2 An FIR has been registered against independent MLA Ravindra Singh Bhati and five others for allegedly threatening folk singer Chotu Singh Rawna and insulting the women of his family, police said on Thursday.Rawna filed the FIR against the Sheo MLA and five others after a...

New Delhi, April 1 A Delhi court issued a "notice of accusation" to BJP MLA Karnail Singh in a criminal defamation complaint filed by AAP leader Satyendar Jain, stating that there is no reason to believe that the accusation is baseless.Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Paras Dalal was...

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...

Pakur (Jharkhand), March 30 A lawyer was arrested in Jharkhand's Pakur district on Monday on the charge of sexually assaulting a law student for several months.The police arrested the lawyer after the victim, who was pursuing an LLB degree, filed a complaint with the Pakur town police station...

Nagpur, March 27 A fourth-year BA LLB student at the Maharashtra National Law University (MNLU) has been accused of harassing her younger roommate, according to a Nagpur police official on Friday.The student was booked based on a complaint filed by a professor at the Butibori police station...

Mumbai, March 27 Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sushma Andhare on Friday claimed that former Maharashtra State Commission for Women chairperson Rupali Chakankar cleared music director Anu Malik in a sexual harassment case, and later her son appeared in a film produced by him.While Malik denied the...

New Delhi, March 25 A student from Delhi University and another from Jawaharlal Nehru University have claimed that they have filed complaints at the Vasant Kunj (North) police station against the JNU Vice-Chancellor, alleging that she made remarks directed against the Dalit community in February...

Bengaluru, March 24 Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh will file an affidavit apologizing and also visit Chamundi Hill, the Karnataka High Court was informed on Tuesday during the hearing of his plea to quash a complaint and FIR over alleged remarks on a divine character from the film Kantara Chapter...

Lucknow, March 24 The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Tuesday refused to grant relief to MLC Akshay Pratap Singh and others who are accused in a case involving serious allegations of fraud and forgery leveled by the wife of former cabinet minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja...

Lucknow, March 21 A man was arrested here on Saturday for allegedly kidnapping a 17-year-old girl under the guise of a marriage proposal, police said.On March 15, the girl's parents filed a complaint at the local police station under sections 87 (kidnapping, abduction, or forcing a woman into...

Mumbai, March 17 Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Tuesday that out of the 136 cases recommended by the state human rights commission over 12 years, action had been taken in only 57 cases.Fadnavis made the statement in the assembly after BJP MLA Atul Bhatkhalkar raised the...

Mumbai, March 17 Actress and politician Kangana Ranaut has strongly reacted to the controversy surrounding actress Nora Fatehi’s song ‘Sarke Chunar Teri Sarke’.The actress spoke to the media outside the Parliament, and criticized the Hindi film industry for “crossing all limits to achieve...

New Delhi, March 17 The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued summons to Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami in a defamation case filed by the Congress, which alleged that he had falsely claimed that the Istanbul Congress Centre in Turkey is the office of the political party.Justice Mini...

Mumbai, March 16 – Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis defended the state government's move to introduce the Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Bill on Monday, which aims to curb unlawful religious conversions within the state.He stated that the Bill was presented in response to several...