A Bihar court on Friday acquitted 11 Nepali Maoist leaders after hearing the state government's petition for the withdrawal of criminal cases against them. Two days after the state government filed a petition in the Patna civil court for the withdrawal of cases, Additional District Judge Bashishtha Narain Singh ordered the acquittal of the Nepal Maoist leaders after holding a hearing on the petition.
In order to prove the charges against the accused in the March 15 Swiss woman gang rape case, the police said they would count more on the scientific evidence than traditional methods like identification parade.
The case relating to the unnatural death of computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rehman, who had married the daughter of a Hindu industrialist in 2007, was on Wednesday transferred to a fast track court for trial. Chief judge city sessions court Murari Mohan Ghosh ordered the seven accused in the case, including Rizwanur's father-in-law Ashok Todi, an industrialist, to appear before the additional district judges court (9th bench) on May 29.
Son of a Samajwadi Party leader was sentenced to life imprisonment and a penalty of Rs 1 lakh was also imposed on him by a local court here for raping a teenaged girl.
A court in Maharashtra's Thane district has sentenced a man to 20 years rigorous imprisonment (RI) for raping a minor girl in 2021, relying on the deposition of the six-year-old victim and other prosecution witnesses.
The ASI, which was to submit the report of the survey by October 6, now has time till November 6 to do so.
Additional District Judge Sudha Sharma passed the order and fixed July 29 as the next date of hearing.
Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi was on Saturday granted interim bail by a local court in a case relating to derogatory remarks against Chief Minister Mayawati. The release order has been sent to the district jail, where she has been lodged after she was arrested under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Mayawati.
The Uttar Pradesh Police on Monday said it has gunned down a second accused in the Sultanpur jewellery store robbery case in a pre-dawn encounter in Unnao district. "Akhilesh Yadav's wish has been fulfilled, a Thakur has been encountered," said the father of Anuj Pratap Singh.
Dentist Nupur Talwar was on Wednesday denied bail in the sensational 2008 double murder of her daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj by a special CBI court, which felt she may create hindrance in trial and flee from justice if granted relief.
Supreme Court judge Sanjay Karol on Wednesday recused himself from hearing a plea filed by the Bihar government challenging a Patna high court order granting a stay on the caste survey it was conducting.
Right-wing activist Kajal Hindustani, who was arrested for allegedly delivering a 'hate speech' that caused a communal clash in Una town of Gujarat's Gir Somnath district, was on Thursday granted bail by a sessions court.
34 Dalits, including nine children and 13 women, were killed and more than 15 others injured by activists of Ranvir Sena at Miyapur village in Aurangabad district.
Ten persons, accused of being Maoists and involved in the killing of a police sub-inspector and a Central Reserve Police Force jawan, were acquitted by a court in Rourkela. Additional district judge of the fast-track court Gopabandhu Patnaik acquitted them on Wednesday for lack of evidence in the killing of sub-inspector Ajit Bardhan and CRPF man Abdul Rafiq in July 2009. According to the prosecution, 30 people were arrested in connection with the killing of the SI on July 16
March 21, 22 and 23 are the dates for trial in the 1974 Pirtand murder case.
Nupur Talwar, an accused in the 2008 double murder of her daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj, will have to spend a second night in jail after a Ghaziabad court on Tuesday reserved till Wednesday its order on her bail plea. Additional District Judge S Lal reserved the order on the bail application of Nupur, who was sent to jail on Monday, after hearing arguments of her counsel as well as the Central Bureau of Investigation, which opposed any relief to her.
The Supreme Court is all set to regain its full strength of 34 judges with the apex court collegium headed by CJI N V Ramana recommending names of the Chief Justice of Gauhati high court Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Gujarat high court judge Justice Jamshed B Pardiwala for elevation to the apex court, sources said.
A doctor couple, who had gone on vacation to Thailand, allegedly leaving their 13-year-old maid locked-up and starving in their flat at Dwarka in South West Delhi, was on Tuesday denied anticipatory bail by a court in New Delhi.
The Supreme Court on Monday regained its full strength of 34 judges as chief justice of Gauhati high court Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Gujarat high court judge Justice Jamshed B Pardiwala took oath as apex court judges.
Charges against 27 accused in the case were framed on January 18 under Sections of the Indian Penal Code.
'Justice B V Nagarathna has excellent human qualities and is a stickler for the law.'
The Nagpur district court on Monday handed life imprisonment to former BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd engineer Nishant Agarwal under the Official Secrets Act for spying for Pakistan's intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
A special court in Moradabad has acquitted all 74 accused, including UP Cabinet minister Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary and local Bharatiya Janata Party legislator Ritesh Kumar Gupta, for allegedly attacking policemen during the protest in Kanth area of the district in 2014.
The high court asked the state government to make arrangements for security and safe transport by air of the judicial officer and two staff members.
This is one of the fastest convictions for such a crime. The decision comes within 16 days after the case was presented before the judge.
The judicial commission set up by the Uttar Pradesh government will speak to anyone required for its inquiry into the July 2 Hathras stampede, a probe panel member said on Sunday when asked if self-styled godman Bhole Baba will also be questioned.
Apparently unable to bear the ignominy of conviction in a case of massacre of eight Rashtriya Janata Dal workers, a former Congress minister collapsed after stepping out from the court on Tuesday and died an hour later.The former minister, Sanjay Kumar Singh, was taken to a hospital where he breathed his last.An FIR was lodged against Additional District Judge S C Srivastava after Singh's lawyers alleged that the court did not pay any heed to their repeated request.
The Allahabad high court on Friday ordered authorities to determine the age of the Shivling-like structure inside the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi using modern technology.
'No one has been given a clean chit. The investigation is on and government agencies are searching for the main accused who is absconding'
A local court in Moradabad could not take up on Friday morning the hearing of the bail application of Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi, who is currently in judicial custody for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati.
Former Delhi high court judge Reva Khetrapal will be Delhi's new Lokayukta, a post which was lying vacant since 2013.
The plea said as the applicant was the "rightful and legal owner" of the property regarding which the original suit was filed, he was a "necessary party" in the appeal.
A local court acquitted former Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren in the 1974 Kudko double murder case for lack of evidence on Tuesday.
A court in New Delhi on Tuesday reserved its order on an intervention application claiming the intervenor was a "necessary party" to an appeal seeking restoration of Hindu and Jain deities in an alleged temple complex inside the Qutub Minar.
Mohammed Ashraf alias Mohammed Shakeel, Mohammed Amran and Abdul Majid also wanted to abduct Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly.
In the second shortest trial in Rajasthan, the son of a top police officer was Wednesday awarded seven years rigorous imprisonment by a local court, 22 days after he raped a German tourist in Alwar.
The car, a Porsche, allegedly driven by the 17-year-old, who the police claim was drunk at the time, fatally knocked down two motorbike-borne software engineers at Kalyani Nagar in Pune city in the early hours of Sunday.
Charges were dropped against Salman under section 27 of the Arms Act and section 148 of IPC for possession of arms with intent to use for an unlawful purpose.
Whenever the banker is faced with a situation where the question in his view relates to Right to Life/Survival vis-a-vis convenience, it is the former which takes precedence and he needs to exercise his discretion as such," additional district judge Kamini Lau said.
Rimpa's father, Anil Haldar, through the petition, demanded that Pandher be booked under Sec 302 (murder), 376 (rape) and 212 of Indian Penal Code.
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