The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Manipur government to apprise the apex court-appointed committee of the steps taken to secure places of public worship in the state where ethnic clashes have claimed more than 170 lives since May.
A Patna court on Wednesday sentenced 16 men to death and 10 men to life imprisonment in connection with the infamous Laxmanpur-Bathe massacre of 1997 in which 58 Dalits,including 27 women and 10 children-some under 5 years of age-were killed.
Additional District and Sessions Judge S M Hasseb pronounced the judgment after 15-year-long proceedings. This was probably the only case where the verdict was given in connection with the post-Babri demolition violence.
A sessions court on Wednesday granted bail to former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore till February 8 in his case challenging a Central Bureau of Investigation special court's verdict sentencing him to six months imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1,000 for molesting Ruchika Girhotra in 1990.
Holding them guilty, Additional District and Sessions Judge Shambhunath Mishra fixed June 27 for announcing the quantum of punishment.
The quantum of sentence will be announced on May eight.
Vismaya, 22, was found dead in the house of her husband at Sasthamkotta in Kollam district on June 21, 2021.
A Raipur court on Saturday acquitted senior Congress leader and former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi of the charge of being involved in the murder of Nationalist Congress Party leader Ram Avatar Jaggi, citing insufficient grounds to press the allegation against him.
It is the fourth arrest in the case after main accused Rakesh Ranjan Yadav alias Rocky, his father Bindi Yadav and bodyguard Rajesh Kumar.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Himashu Bhatnagar also imposed a fine of Rs 2,12,000 on each of the seven accused -- Muzammil, Mujassim, Furkan, Nadeem, Janangir, Afzal and Ikbal -- for killing Gaurav and Sachin on August 27, 2013 and rioting.
A Bihar court on Thursday awarded 10 years imprisonment to Praduman Kumar, locally known as 'Father Teressa', head of Lok Seva Ashram, an orphanage in village Chakwaja under Patedhi Belsar block in Vaisali district, for sexually abusing children.
Nirav Modi's lawyer raised a British court's judgment blocking the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US on mental health grounds, as the embattled diamond merchant appeared via videolink before a court here on Thursday for a two-day hearing of final submissions in his fight against being extradited to India. The 49-year-old diamond merchant, facing charges of fraud, money laundering and intimidating witnesses in the estimated $2-billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam case, appeared in the Westminster Magistrates' Court. Sporting a full beard and dressed casually in a blazer, he followed the proceedings from a room at Wandsworth Prison in south-west London as his counsel raised Monday's judgment which blocks the extradition of Assange to the US on the grounds of his mental health.
It was a century with no applause or standing ovation, but nevertheless an outstanding feat in itself as a court in New Delhi settled in just two days exactly 100 civil cases, which included suits dating back to 15 years.
The 49-year-old jeweller, wanted in India on charges of fraud and money laundering in the estimated USD 2-billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam case, further remanded in custody during a routine call-over hearing held via videolink at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London.
The Centre would support the Indian judiciary to be independent, Rijiju said.
Chouhan's son Kartikey accused the Congress leader of intentionally making a false allegation about his name being in Panama Papers of alleged tax evaders.
The 52-year-old Congress leader reached Surat in the afternoon via a scheduled commercial flight along with sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and proceeded to the sessions court.
The high court in London on Tuesday began hearing evidence from two leading experts in the field of psychiatry to determine the level of suicide risk faced by Nirav Modi if he is extradited to India to face charges of fraud and money laundering, amounting to an estimated $2 billion in the Punjab National Bank (PNB) loan scam case. Lord Justice Jeremy Stuart-Smith and Justice Robert Jay heard from Andrew Forrester, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Cardiff University, and Seena Fazel, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Oxford University, in the final stages of the extradition appeal being pursued by the 51-year-old diamond merchant. The two psychiatrists weighed up Nirav's level of depression, which could pose a "substantial" or "elevated" risk of suicide.
The judge directed the police to produce the absconder on July 7 so that all convicts could be sentenced together.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Gyaneshwar Prasad Srivastava of the special court in Siwan jail also pronounced a fine of Rs 1,000 on him.
Soren, still in legal tangles in another double murder case, was given the benefit of doubt along with 13 others by Jamtara Additional District and Sessions Judge Arun Kumar, for want of evidence.
A special CBI court in Ghaziabad on Thursday chargesheeted the prime accused in Nithari serial killings case, Mohinder Singh Pandher for the rape and murder of two teenagers.
In a statement, the ministry of defence said the official winners were picked by panels of judges.
BJP leader Uma Bharti secured a judicial relief on Tuesday when the Additional District and Sessions Court in Hubli upheld her discharge by a lower court in a 1994 criminal case.
'As per the orders of the court, the videography survey of the Gyanvapi Masjid complex took place from May 14 to May 16 from 8 am to 12 noon, and its report was to be submitted to the court'
Additional District and Sessions Judge Navneet Kumar Sinha, who had convicted the 10 men on May 9, announced the sentence on Thursday
The charges were framed against Mantu Kumar, Uday Kumar, Pinku Ravidas and Shravan Kumar under sections of Indian penal Code and Arms Act by Additional district and sessions judge J M Sharma.
A local court today set free 20 accused, including a Communist Party of India-Marxist district secretariat member, in the case relating to the murder of Revolutionary Marxist Party leader T P Chandrasekharan.
A court in Jamtara Tuesday issued a production warrant against jailed Jharkhand Mukti Morcha chief Shibu Soren for appearing before it on January 5 in connection with the three-decade-old Chirrudih massacre case.
Khan was convicted in the Toshakhana case which was filed last year on the complaint of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) which had earlier disqualified him in the same case.
A fast-track court in Haryana's Faridabad on Wednesday convicted two men in connection with the murder of Nikita Tomar, five months after she was shot outside her college in a crime caught on camera.
Khalistani separatist Lakhbir Singh alias 'Rode', a designated terrorist under the Indian law, has died recently in Pakistan, where he had taken refuge after his uncle Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale was killed in 1984 during an army action, officials said on Tuesday.
The former cricketer was arrested on Tuesday in a narcotics case.
The 50-year-old jeweller, who remains behind bars at Wandsworth Prison in south-west London, had lost the first stage of the high court appeals process last week as a judge declined permission to appeal "on the papers". Modi's lawyers had five days to file a renewal application seeking an oral hearing to plead the case for permission to appeal against the extradition ordered by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel on April 16.
A Pakistani court in Islamabad on Monday rejected former prime minister Imran Khan's plea seeking the suspension of the non-bailable warrant issued against him in the Toshakhana case.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 35,000 on him.
Teni was allegedly travelling in the SUV with Rocky and bodyguard Rajesh Kumar, when Aditya was shot dead near police lines under Rampur police station area after Rocky's vehicle was overtaken by the car in which Aditya and his friends were sitting.
