News for 'Criminal Penal Code'

Poll official rejects EVM 'unlocking' news; notices issued to 2 newspapers

Poll official rejects EVM 'unlocking' news; notices issued to 2 newspapers

Rediff.com16 Jun 2024

Suryavanshi said the personal mobile phone of one Dinesh Gurav, the data entry operator of Jogeshwari assembly constituency, was found in the hands of an unauthorised person and action is being taken in this regard.

SC grants protection from arrest to actor Siddique in rape case

SC grants protection from arrest to actor Siddique in rape case

Rediff.com1 Oct 2024

A bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Satish Chandra Sharma issued notices to the Kerala government and the victim in the case and sought their replies within two weeks.

Rahul May Find Reprieve In Law

Rahul May Find Reprieve In Law

Rediff.com23 Mar 2023

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi can get reprieve from being disqualified as a member of Parliament under The Representation of People's Act until his appeal comes to a higher court in Gujarat.

Priyanka to accompany Rahul to challenge conviction in Surat

Priyanka to accompany Rahul to challenge conviction in Surat

Rediff.com3 Apr 2023

Chief ministers of 3 Congress-ruled states, other national and state party leaders are also likely to accompany Rahul to the court.

AAP seeks forgery case against Cong's Surat candidate

AAP seeks forgery case against Cong's Surat candidate

Rediff.com24 Apr 2024

AAP leader and party's Surat Lok Sabha president Rajnikant Vaghani demanded that either Kumbhani be booked on the charges of forgery or his proposers be booked for giving false declaration on oath.

1 held in Mathura for threatening Muslim dosa seller

1 held in Mathura for threatening Muslim dosa seller

Rediff.com30 Aug 2021

The police in Mathura have arrested a man for allegedly threatening a Muslim dosa seller and vandalising his cart apparently because his business was named after a Hindu deity, officials said.

BJP And The Long-Standing Preamble Dream

BJP And The Long-Standing Preamble Dream

Rediff.com10 Jul 2025

BJP and RSS leaders are once again pushing to remove the words 'secular' and 'socialist' from the Constitution's Preamble, showing a deeper effort to change India's identity from a diverse, multi-religious republic to a Hindu-first nation, even though they don't have the numbers in Parliament to officially change the Constitution, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.

'Unparliamentary but...': Rane discharged in Uddhav remark case

'Unparliamentary but...': Rane discharged in Uddhav remark case

Rediff.com2 Apr 2023

Rane was arrested from the coastal Ratnagiri district for his remark that he would have slapped Thackeray over the latter's ignorance of the year of India's Independence.

Raigad police quiz Edelweiss MD, officials for 8 hours

Raigad police quiz Edelweiss MD, officials for 8 hours

Rediff.com8 Aug 2023

ECL Finance Company MD and three officials were on Tuesday quizzed for nearly eight hours by the Raigad police in Maharashtra probing the alleged suicide of film art director Nitin Desai, an official said.

Telcos face CBI heat over international call norms

Telcos face CBI heat over international call norms

Rediff.com25 Feb 2013

Complaint says Singapore Telecommunications sold services illegally in connivance with Bharti and Tata Communications.

Shinde loyalist's car attacked in Pune, 5 arrested

Shinde loyalist's car attacked in Pune, 5 arrested

Rediff.com3 Aug 2022

Samant was in Pune to attend Shinde's programmes in the district

South Korean YouTuber meets 'Indian heroes' who 'saved' her

South Korean YouTuber meets 'Indian heroes' who 'saved' her

Rediff.com2 Dec 2022

"Lunch with two Indian gentlemen who help me to post the video and save me on the street. Aditya & Atharva" she wrote.

Hanuman Chalisa row: Rana couple booked for sedition, sent to custody

Hanuman Chalisa row: Rana couple booked for sedition, sent to custody

Rediff.com24 Apr 2022

On Sunday, a Mumbai court remanded the politician couple in 14-day judicial custody, a day after they were arrested by the Mumbai Police on the charge of 'creating enmity between different groups', rejecting the police's demand for their custody, an official said.

Lakhimpur Kheri: SC order on Ashish Mishra's bail plea on Wednesday

Lakhimpur Kheri: SC order on Ashish Mishra's bail plea on Wednesday

Rediff.com24 Jan 2023

The Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce on Wednesday its order on the bail plea of Union Minister Ajay Kumar Mishra's son Ashish Mishra, an accused in the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence case.

SC asks Teesta, husband to cooperate with Gujarat police

SC asks Teesta, husband to cooperate with Gujarat police

Rediff.com1 Nov 2023

The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand to cooperate with the Gujarat Police in connection with a case filed against them over alleged misappropriation of funds.

Out on bail, BJP MLA's son fires at tribal in MP, victim hospitalised

Out on bail, BJP MLA's son fires at tribal in MP, victim hospitalised

Rediff.com4 Aug 2023

Following the incident, the police registered a case against 40-year-old Vivekanand Vaishya, Morba police station inspector Ashok Singh Parihar said.

Rahul's conviction 'just, proper and legal': Guj HC dismisses plea

Rahul's conviction 'just, proper and legal': Guj HC dismisses plea

Rediff.com7 Jul 2023

The HC noted that there is no reasonable ground to stay the conviction.

PFI official from Kerala nabbed in Hathras conspiracy case

PFI official from Kerala nabbed in Hathras conspiracy case

Rediff.com3 Mar 2023

The Uttar Pradesh police on Friday said it has arrested a "functionary" of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) from Kerala on charges of conspiracy to trigger riots in the wake of the alleged gangrape and death of a Dalit girl in Hathras in 2020.

Pursue defaulters, RBI tells banks

Pursue defaulters, RBI tells banks

Rediff.com24 Jul 2004

The central bank has advised banks and financial institutions to 'seriously and promptly consider initiating criminal action against willful defaulters, wherever necessary, based on facts and circumstances of each case."

Dabholkar murder: Pune court frames charges against 5 accused

Dabholkar murder: Pune court frames charges against 5 accused

Rediff.com15 Sep 2021

Dabholkar, who headed the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti, was shot dead in Pune on August 20, 2013, allegedly by members of a right-wing extremist group. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is conducting a probe into the case.

Kerala NEET frisking row: Women, child rights bodies seek action against staff

Kerala NEET frisking row: Women, child rights bodies seek action against staff

Rediff.com19 Jul 2022

A case was registered by the police after the teen lodged a formal complaint.

2 held in MP over bomb threat to Bharat Jodo Yatra

2 held in MP over bomb threat to Bharat Jodo Yatra

Rediff.com19 Nov 2022

Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra on Saturday said while two suspects have been detained, three others are identified and a team of police has gone to Haryana.

Industry backs criminalising private sector graft

Industry backs criminalising private sector graft

Rediff.com2 Oct 2012

Government has proposed to make bribery in private sector a criminal offence.

Court charges Gopal Kanda with raping former air hostess

Court charges Gopal Kanda with raping former air hostess

Rediff.com10 May 2013

Former Haryana Minister Gopal Goyal Kanda will face charges of rape and abetment of suicide after a Delhi court on Friday put him on trial in air hostess Geetika Sharma's suicide case.

Shehla case: Court frames charges against five accused

Shehla case: Court frames charges against five accused

Rediff.com21 Jul 2012

A special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Saturday framed charges against all the five accused, including Zahida Parvez, in connection with the Bhopal-based right to information activist Shehla Masood murder case.

Saradha scam: CBI files first chargesheet

Saradha scam: CBI files first chargesheet

Rediff.com22 Oct 2014

The accused were charged under Indian Penal Code sections -- 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant or agent), 420 (cheating) and 120B (punishment of criminal conspiracy).

Absconding terrorists like Dawood can now be tried: Amit Shah on new bills

Absconding terrorists like Dawood can now be tried: Amit Shah on new bills

Rediff.com11 Aug 2023

Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday introduced three bills in Lok Sabha to replace the Indian Penal Code, Criminal Procedure Code and the Indian Evidence Act, asserting that the proposed laws will transform the country's criminal justice system and bring the spirit to protect the rights of citizen at the centre stage.

SC agrees to hear CBI's plea against Chanda Kochhar

SC agrees to hear CBI's plea against Chanda Kochhar

Rediff.com16 Oct 2023

The Supreme Court on Monday sought response of former ICICI Bank CEO-cum-MD Chanda Kochhar and her businessman husband Deepak Kochhar on a plea of the CBI challenging the interim bail granted to them by the Bombay high court in a loan fraud case. A bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Bela M Trivedi issued notice on the plea of the CBI and sought the response of the couple in three weeks.

Kanjhawala accused 'agreed to drag girl' for 13 km

Kanjhawala accused 'agreed to drag girl' for 13 km

Rediff.com18 Jul 2023

The Delhi Police filed an 800-page chargesheet against the seven accused on April 1 and the case was subsequently committed to a sessions court.

FIR filed against Ashis Nandy for remark against Dalits

FIR filed against Ashis Nandy for remark against Dalits

Rediff.com26 Jan 2013

The Jaipur Literature Festival Saturday witnessed fireworks after political critic Ashis Nandy made a controversial comment on corruption and people belonging to OBC, SC and ST communities which drew a strong response from the audience.

MP: Man whose house razed for stone-pelting was in jail on Ram Navami

MP: Man whose house razed for stone-pelting was in jail on Ram Navami

Rediff.com15 Apr 2022

Police officials conceded that Shahbaz, the accused, was in fact in prison on April 10, but justified the demolition claiming he was a 'listed criminal of the area'.

DMK MP, 5 others held over clash

DMK MP, 5 others held over clash

Rediff.com29 Mar 2011

J K Ritheesh, a Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam member of Parliament and five others were arrested in connection with a clash between his partymen and Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam-All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam workers at Kalavankudi in the district, police said here on Tuesday.

J Dey murder: Journalist Jigna Vora charged under MCOCA

J Dey murder: Journalist Jigna Vora charged under MCOCA

Rediff.com21 Feb 2012

The Mumbai crime branch on Tuesday filed a supplementary chargesheet in the sensational murder of senior crime reporter Jyotirmoy Dey, which detailed the role allegedly played by journalist Jigna Vora.

Hrithik gets legal notice for his 'Pope' tweet

Hrithik gets legal notice for his 'Pope' tweet

Rediff.com30 Mar 2016

Hrithik Roshan in trouble, again.

1 held for assaulting, forcing Dalit man to lick slippers in UP

1 held for assaulting, forcing Dalit man to lick slippers in UP

Rediff.com9 Jul 2023

A video purportedly of the incident had gone viral on social media, they said, adding that the accused has been "terminated from the service".

Two convicted ISIS supporters get 8 years in jail

Two convicted ISIS supporters get 8 years in jail

Rediff.com7 Jan 2022

Special judge A T Wankhede had earlier this week accepted the guilty plea and convicted them under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for conspiracy and being a member of/supporting a banned terrorist organisation.

Suvendu Adhikari's close aide arrested in job scam

Suvendu Adhikari's close aide arrested in job scam

Rediff.com6 Jun 2021

Rakhal Bera was arrested from outside his residence in Kolkata on Saturday based on a complaint lodged at the Manicktala police station by a resident of Kalyangarh.

HC to hear MJ Akbar's plea against Priya Ramani's acquittal on April 26

HC to hear MJ Akbar's plea against Priya Ramani's acquittal on April 26

Rediff.com23 Feb 2024

The Delhi high court on Friday allowed a plea filed by former Union minister M J Akbar seeking an early hearing of his appeal challenging a trial court order that acquitted journalist Priya Ramani in a criminal defamation case filed by him over her allegations of sexual harassment.

Hyderabad prof moves SC for quashing of proceedings, summons by Manipur court

Hyderabad prof moves SC for quashing of proceedings, summons by Manipur court

Rediff.com24 Jul 2023

A bench headed Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud agreed to list the matter for hearing on July 28 after senior advocate Anand Grover mentioned it for early hearing.

Doctors threaten stir, Nanded hospital dean files FIR against Shiv Sena MP

Doctors threaten stir, Nanded hospital dean files FIR against Shiv Sena MP

Rediff.com4 Oct 2023

A doctors' body has threatened to launch a stir if the Maharashtra government doesn't take action after a video of the acting dean of a state-run hospital in Nanded, where 31 patients have died in 48 hours, being forced to clean a toilet by a Shiv Sena MP went viral.