legal procedure

Shimla, April 10 The Himachal Pradesh High Court ruled on Friday that an election petition is inherently based on trial proceedings, and therefore, evidence and witness examination are essential for ensuring a fair adjudication process.The court was hearing the petition filed by senior...

Shimla, April 10 – In a significant development in the pending Rajya Sabha election petition, BJP leader and Member of Parliament Harsh Mahajan has secured a major legal relief from the Himachal Pradesh High Court on Friday, dismissing an application filed by senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu...

Srinagar, April 7 Police in Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir, attached property worth Rs 1.44 crore belonging to an alleged drug dealer on Tuesday, officials said."As part of a crackdown on narcotics-related activities, the police in Shopian have attached an immovable property valued at Rs...

Chandigarh, April 6 In a move to improve efficiency and transparency in the judicial system, the Haryana government has decided to implement an e-summons system for the issuance and service of summons in all courts functioning under various departments, as well as in revenue courts across the...

Prayagraj (UP), April 3 The Allahabad High Court has sought an explanation from the additional chief secretary (home) of Uttar Pradesh over the omission of the courtesy title 'Hon'ble' before the name of a Union minister in an FIR.A two-judge bench of Justices J J Munir and Tarun Saxena passed...

Ranchi, April 3 – Prashant Bose, a senior Politburo member of the banned CPI-Maoist, also known as ‘Kishan Da’, died at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi after his health deteriorated on Friday, officials said. He was over 80 years old.Bose, who was in custody at the...

Kathmandu, April 1 The most senior judge of the Supreme Court, Sapana Malla, took over as the acting Chief Justice of Nepal on Wednesday.Malla, 62, assumed the top judicial position following the retirement of Chief Justice Prakash Man Singh Raut on Tuesday, when he reached the retirement age...

New Delhi, March 24 Ten requests from central investigating agencies to prosecute officials are pending with the Union Home Ministry for more than three months, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.In a written reply, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai also said that since 2014, the...

New Delhi, March 23 Questioning the "insensitive" approach of the Gurugram Police and the magistrate who examined a four-year-old rape victim, the Supreme Court on Monday directed the Gurugram commissioner of police and the investigating officer to appear before it on March 25 with all the probe...

Kochi, March 19 The Kerala High Court on Thursday cancelled the bail of eight men accused of killing a man from Jharkhand in Palakkad district in December last year, saying that the relief was granted to them "thoughtlessly" and in a "mechanical manner" by the lower court.Justice A Badharudeen...

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...

New Delhi, March 14 – Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia submitted surety bonds of ₹50,000 each before a court here on Saturday, following their discharge in the corruption case linked to the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy.The leaders...

New Delhi, March 12 The Supreme Court on Thursday asked two petitioners, who had challenged a provision of a 1882 law that exempts gifts executed under Muslim law from registration, to approach the Law Commission of India.A bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant said the appropriate recourse...

Nainital, March 11 The Uttarakhand High Court on Wednesday declared a provision in the state public service commission's recruitment examination unconstitutional, which did not allow candidates to verify their answer sheets before the final results of all stages of the test were announced.A...

Lucknow, March 9 The Allahabad High Court has directed the Lucknow district magistrate to appear before it on Tuesday in connection with allegations that land belonging to La Martiniere College was being used without following due process.The order was passed by a division bench of the Lucknow...

Ahmedabad, March 2 – Police arrested Vishal Gurjar, a former office-bearer of the Youth Congress and nephew of former Congress MLA Himmatsinh Patel, late Sunday night for allegedly driving under the influence and crashing into two parked cars in Maninagar, Ahmedabad.The incident occurred near...

Quetta, February 26 – The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), a human rights body, expressed grave concern on Thursday over the continued imprisonment of its chief organizer, Mehrang Baloch, and other leaders, citing what it described as a systematic pattern of "legal and procedural manipulation"...

Patna, February 23 – In a major setback for the Andhra Pradesh Police, the Patna Civil Court on Monday refused to grant transit remand to Bihar Home Guard and Fire Service Inspector General (IG) M. Sunil Nayak.The court sharply questioned the procedure adopted by the Andhra Pradesh Police and...

Mumbai, February 19 A special court for Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) in Mumbai has acquitted a 34-year-old South African woman in a case related to the seizure of 3 kg of heroin, and has recommended that action be taken against the investigating officials for their gross...

New Delhi, February 13 All transfers are to be made in the public interest, the government told the Lok Sabha on Friday as it explained the entire process of transferring high court judges in response to a question on instances of "interference" by the executive in such transfers.In a written...