Martoma, 40, was sentenced in federal court last month by US District Judge Paul Gardephe for his role as the "central figure" in the most lucrative insider trading scheme ever charged involving $275 million in illegal profits and avoided losses.
Reema Shah pleaded guilty to insider trading and cooperated with the US government for accepting insider info from a Yahoo! executive
The Supreme Court has agreed to examine the legal issue of whether the Enforcement Directorate can attach ancestral properties of the accused under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act as 'proceeds of crime.'
The offence carries punishment of minimum 10 years and maximum of life imprisonment.
A High Court bench in Nagpur has dismissed a criminal case against Devisingh Shekhawat, husband of President Pratibha Patil, relating to abetment of suicide by a school teacher. A single judge bench of Justice Arun Choudhary, while allowing application of Devisingh Shekhawat and three others under section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code has quashed the judgment passed by Additional Sessions Judge, Khamgaon in Buldana district on February 7, 2007.
A battle royale, fought over 15 long years, comes to an end as a prince and a princess -- grandchildren of the legendary Rajmata Gayatri Devi -- get back the Jai Mahal Palace Hotel from their step-uncles.
The court said in its order, "If we have not imposed a lockdown it does not mean that we do not believe in it. We are still of the view that if we want to break the chain a lockdown for a duration of at least two weeks is a must."
"You cannot play hide and seek with the court," Justice Suresh Kait said.
Both men were carrying loaded handguns, and police found an AR-type rifle in the Hummer.
Special CBI Judge M B Gosavi while discharging Amin observed that there was no sufficient evidence against him.
A SIT was set up for fresh investigation into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases in Delhi and some other states.
A group of people had lynched 40-year-old Alimuddin Ansari in Bazaar Tand locality of Ramgarh town on June 29, 2017, on the suspicion that he was carrying beef in his car.
Hussain has been booked in the murder case of the IB staffer in northeast Delhi amid violence over the new citizenship law last week.
In a relief to Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and former minister for industries Murugesh Nirani, the Supreme Court Wednesday protected them from arrest in a case pertaining to alleged forgery over withdrawal of approval for a parcel of land in the state.
At present, the state has 81 such courts. Of the new 218, 144 will be for rape cases, 74 for POCSO cases.
Amidst reports of Congress' confabulations with the Rashtriya Janata Dal for a secular alliance in Bihar in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday took a dig at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for the Congress preferring Lalu Prasad over him and said such an 'opportunistic' alliance was not a cause of worry for it.
A Delhi court has sentenced an army jawan to seven years in jail for doubling as a Pakistan intelligence agent and supplying sensitive defence-related information to the neighbouring country.
A sessions court in Khambhaliya taluka of Jamnagar district has issued a bailable warrant against suspended IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt in a case dating back to 1990, where a person had died, allegedly, after receiving a beating by the police. The warrant was issued by Additional Session Judge N T Solanki on Tuesday, after Bhatt, an accused, failed to appear. Bhatt had accused Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi of misusing the state machinery during 2002 post-Godhra riots. Th
As cases of 'black fungus' among COVID-19 patients in the country rise to cross 7,000, the Centre on Thursday urged all states and union territories to declare it as a notifiable disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act to ensure mandatory surveillance to tackle the 'new challenge'.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra asked the Centre to suggest names on Wednesday itself for its consideration and appointment in the proposed SIT.
The case pertains to the death of a man named Prabhudas Madhavji Vaishnani who died on November 11 1990, allegedly due to torture in police custody.
Fifteen out of 97 men belonging to dominant Jat community were convicted on Saturday by a Delhi court in a case of burning alive of a 70-year-old Dalit man and his physically-challenged daughter at Mirchpur village of Haryana's Hisar district last year.
A trial court in Ahmedabad has convicted six persons while acquitted four others in a post-Godhra riot case in which three persons of the minority community were killed in Viramgam taluka of the district nine years ago.
Raising security issues, the defence lawyers referred to a media report on the death of a judge who had dealt with the case and said "misreporting has already caused prejudice to both sides". They said it was a "sensational" case and some untoward incident could happen if publication of reports was allowed.
Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal is in a "habit of filing false complaints", the Tihar jail authority today told a Delhi court while responding to his plea in which he had alleged that he was being treated "worse than an animal" in the high security prison.
Tejpal, former Tehelka editor-in-chief, was accused of sexually assaulting the colleague inside the elevator of a luxury hotel in Goa in 2013.
Decorated para-athlete and India's lone woman Paralympic medallist Deepa Malik has been elected as president of Paralympic Committee of India though the results of the elections are subject to a pending case in the Delhi High Court. The 49-year-old Deepa, who won a silver in shot put F-53 event in the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, was elected unopposed as president in the PCI polls held in Bengaluru on Friday.
A fiery British cleric accused of facilitating violent jihad in Afghanistan and setting up a terrorist training camp in the United States was convicted by a court in New York on 11 terrorism charges and faces a maximum prison sentence of life.
Gupta's lawyer Seth Waxman argued his case during a hearing before a three-judge panel of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on Monday.
Sixteen persons arrested in connection with the killing of an Orrisa State Armed Police constable and setting fire to a police station in state's Kandhamal district during communal riots last year, were acquitted by a local court in Phulbani due to lack of evidence.
A day after violent protests in the state capital, a silent sit-in demonstration was organised on Monday against the brutal killing of the two men in Karbi Anglong.
District prosecution officer Rajendra Upadhaya said the MLA was asked to furnish a personal bail bond of Rs 50,000 in the case of assault and of Rs 20,000 in the other case.
Earlier, the Uttar Pradesh government had told the bench that "shocking findings" have emerged in the investigation so far in the case in which Kappan was arrested on his way to Hathras.
Former Customs additional collector Somnath Thapa, convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case, died after a prolonged illness at a hospital in Mumbai on Friday. Thapa (60) was suffering from lung cancer, the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Actcourt sources said. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by special TADA Court Judge Pramod Kode in July 2007.
A Godhra court Friday acquitted 52 accused in a post-Godhra riot case of Halol taluka, Panchmahal district, Gujarat.
The court had on Wednesday held that the previous SIT had not carried out further probe into these 186 cases in which closure reports were filed
In its order, the high court was critical of the delay caused by the authorities in seeking issuance of death warrants for the convicts as also of the "delay tactics" adopted by the convicts.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Friday.
The real danger in India is not majoritarianism but minorityism, a bane we have already experienced. Majoritarianism in the India context means plurality and tolerance. No one needs to fear, says Vivek Gumaste
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