An Allahabad court has admitted a petition seeking trial of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on charges of sedition for his opposition to the police action against students of the Jawaharlal Nehru who had taken part in a demonstration where "anti-national" slogans were allegedly raised.
When they were returning from the medical college, about 100-150 rioters attacked them near the old bus stand on Delhi-Alwar road
A magisterial court in Mehsana on Thursday convicted Gujarat independent MLA Jignesh Mevani and nine others in a five-year-old case of holding an 'Azadi march' without permission and sentenced them to three months' imprisonment.
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday issued notice to Amit Shah while hearing CBI's petition challenging a lower court order rejecting its plea for remand of the former Gujarat minister arrested in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
A court in Lucknow ordered on Wednesday to register a first information report (FIR) against senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid for comparing the 'Sanatan' Hindu religion with the Boko Haram and Islamic State (ISIS) terror outfits in his book titled Sunrise Over Ayodhya: Nationhood in Our Times.
Reacting to the court order, Mohanty said he did not want to comment on the plan of action of Rajasthan police but said any move to arrest him would be beyond its legitimate powers.
The court gave the directions on a case filed by one Prempal Singh on March 20.
An MP-MLA court has issued an arrest warrant against Louise Khurshid, wife of former external affairs minister Salman Khurshid in a case involving alleged misuse of government funds.
Bollywood actor and co-owner of IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders Shahrukh Khan was served summons by a court in Rajasthan to appear before it on May 26, in a case related to him smoking in public at the Sawai Mansingh stadium.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court reserved till August 26 its order on a plea by N K Amin, an accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, to turn an approver in the 2005 episode.
Ansari's brother Afzal said they do not trust either the postmortem or the viscera reports.
A court in Allahabad on Wednesday turned down a petition seeking a direction to the police to register a First Information Report against yoga guru Baba Ramdev and his associate Balakrishna for publishing an article in a magazine brought out by them which allegedly defamed Buddhists.
A court in Barabanki on directed the Mumbai police commissioner on Friday, to serve summons on Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt after he failed to turn up before it in a case relating to alleged derogatory remarks against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati.
A local court will hear a complaint filed against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and eight others, including four cabinet ministers on November 30 in connection with the stampede on Chhath festival that claimed 17 lives.
Patel had made a political speech in violation of a government order at a village in the district ahead of the 2017 Gujarat assembly elections.
The former BJP MLA has been held guilty under IPC Section 188 (disobedience to orders duly promulgated by government officials) for violating CrPC Section 144 restrictions at Akhlaq's Bisahda village.
The court of additional sessions judge R M Asodiya reserved its order on Hindustani's bail plea for April 13, additional public prosecutor Moham Gohel said.
The case related to alleged election code violation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Tuesday transferred to the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate of Ahmedabad Rural court, from the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate.
The Supreme Court of India has reserved its verdict on a plea by BJP leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa challenging an order reviving a corruption case against him. The case involves allegations of corruption and criminal conspiracy related to the allocation of industrial land. The court has framed several key legal questions, primarily focusing on the interplay between various provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Criminal Procedure Code regarding prior sanction to prosecute a public servant. The court has asked Yediyurappa's counsel to file written submissions within two weeks.
The complaint has accused Haasan of hurting religious sentiments of the Hindus by making the "inflammatory and derogatory remark of Hindu terrorism".
The father of a Muzaffarnagar riot victim has moved court challenging the closure report of the SIT giving clean chit to the six accused in the case.
On September 7, the Alwar police charged three men linked to the murder of Rakbar Khan.
Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad, who is currently in police custody in connection with the Umesh Pal murder case, has sought permission from a magistrate to attend the funeral of his son Asad who was killed in a police encounter.
The Sealdah court on Friday granted bail to former officer-in-charge of Tala police station Abhijit Mondal and R G Kar Medical College and Hospital ex-principal Sandip Ghosh in the rape and murder case of an on-duty doctor.
The charges against Ashish Mishra should be modified, cops investigating the case have written to a judge.
Assam journalist Dilwar Hussain Mozumder was arrested for a second time on Thursday after being granted bail in a previous case where he was accused of attempting to steal bank documents. The arrest came after Mozumder questioned the Managing Director of the Assam Cooperative Apex Bank Limited about alleged financial irregularities. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed that Mozumder is not a "recognized journalist" as the government only recognizes journalists from print and electronic media.
In an embarrassment to the Uttar Pradesh police, a court on Thursday refused to take cognisance of the chargesheet against Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah in connection with the alleged hate speech made by him and returned it to the police.
A bench of Justices BR Gavai and Sandeep Mehta, which had allowed anticipatory bail to Surat resident Tusharbhai Rajnikantbhai Shah in a cheating case, got irked when it was informed that the businessman was remanded in police custody.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday told a sessions court in Surat his conviction by a magistrate's court in a 2019 defamation case over his "Modi surname" remark was erroneous, patently perverse, and he was sentenced in a manner so as to attract disqualification as a member of Parliament.
Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee president Rita Bahuguna Joshi was on Thursday remanded to judicial custody for 14 days for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Chief Minister Mayawati.The state police, who took her into custody late on Wednesday night while she was on her way from Ghaziabad to New Delhi, produced her before Moradabad's chief judicial magistrate, who ordered her to be sent to 14 days judicial custody. She was then sent to the Moradabad jail.
Saraj, a resident of Shahdara in Delhi, was absconding since January 24, the day the raid was conducted at Kumar's hospital in Gurgaon.
Two courts in Haridwar have rejected the bail pleas of Yati Narsinghanand and Jitendra Narayan Tyagi who have been arrested in connection with the controversial Dharma Sansad where alleged hate speeches against Muslims were delivered.
The Gauhati High High Court has quashed all orders of the lower court in a case against Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy for an alleged hate speech in Assam in 2015.
A court in Bulandshahr (Uttar Pradesh) has asked the Bangalore Police to ensure the presence of Kingfisher Airlines chief Vijay Mallya before it on October 31 on a pilot's petition alleging that the company was withholding his dues.
A local court on Wednesday extended the Central Bureau of Investigation custody of member of Legislative Assembly Malkhan Singh, arrested in connection with Bhanwari Devi abduction case, until December 31.
A local court on Saturday slapped a fine of Rs 2,000 each on nine persons, including six Chinese nationals, for violating Immigration Act in Sikar district of Rajasthan.
A court in Thiruvananthapuram has issued an arrest warrant against former Kerala chief minister E K Nayanar quite late--five years after his death--with the police failing to inform the magistrate about the Marxist leader's demise. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate S Gopalakrishnan issued the warrant for the second time on Tuesday as police had not informed the court that Nayanar had died when the court issued the warrant for the first time in the case in January 2007.
Accused in the Bengaluru blasts case Abdul Madani told the magistrates court in Bengaluru that he had no complaints in regard to the police's treatment to him.
The court passed the interim order on Thursday while deciding on the allegations of plagiarism against Varaha Roopam.
