Sri Lankan Naval personnel allegedly attacked some fishing boats and arrested 23 Tamil Nadu fishermen when they were fishing near Katchatheevu in the Palk Straits on Sunday, said officials of the fisheries department.
A local court has issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against absconding Indian Administrative Service officer B B Mohanty, accused of raping a 23-year-old woman, the police said on Friday.
A senior Rajasthan police officer, evading arrest in the Dara Singh fake encounter case, on Wednesday surrendered before a special Central Bureau of Investigation court.
Ajanta Manufacturing Limited (Oreva Group) was responsible for the operation and maintenance of the British-era suspension bridge on the Machchhu river in Morbi that collapsed on October 30 last year, days after its repairs.
Kohli was produced before Metropolitan Magistrate S K Sharma, as the additional chief metropolitan magistrate 'enquiring' into the demand for his extradition to the UK was on leave.
Ahmad and Ashraf alias Khalid Azim will be kept in judicial custody till April 26, said advocate Vikram Singh, the counsel for Umesh Pal's wife Jaya.
In an unprecedented verdict, the top court said the criminal jurisprudence required courts to apply judicial mind to the facts of a case before granting police custody if it was "genuinely required".
The Gauhati high court bench in Shillong on Tuesday granted interim bail to an absconding publisher, whose school text-books carried a scandalous representation of Jesus Christ.
A Shillong court issued an arrest warrant against a Delhi-based publisher on Tuesday who is allegedly responsible for printing school textbooks carrying an objectionable picture of Jesus Christ.
Harishwar, a teacher at a Meerut college, filed the case on Wednesday at the additional chief judicial magistrate's court, against Kejriwal for misleading supporters to believe that Team Anna will keep its distance from mainstream politics.
Wednesday's order to close a case against the RJD chief came close on heels of state government withdrawing a case against him, his two minister-sons and others for alleged vandalism and stopping government officials during an RJD-sponsored bandh last year.
The VIIIth Metropolitan Magistrate remanded him to judicial custody for 14 days.
A local court in Kerala's Alappuzha has issued an arrest warrant against Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan in connection with a defamation case filed against the Communist Party of India-Marxist organ 'Desabhimani' in 2004, when he was its chief editor.
Judicial magistrate first class SV Metil Patil ordered his release on furnishing cash security of Rs 15,000.
Asish Kumar Singh had also earlier lodged complaint cases against AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and writer Arundhati Roy for their controversial statements.
Sister Sephy, an accused in the Abhaya murder case, today filed a petition in a local court seeking a probe into the alleged leakage of CDs of the narco-tests conducted on her.
The woman, belonging to the Bheel community, was allegedly gangraped by Devesthan Department of the state government on October 1.
A Mumbai court on Monday extended till January 14 the police custody of Shweta Singh and Mayank Rawal, arrested from Uttarakhand in connection with the case pertaining to the 'Bulli Bai' app, which targeted Muslim women by putting up their images online for 'auction.'
With the arrest of two senior officials of the AMRI Hospital on Tuesday in connection with the devastating fire at its Dhakuria facility on Friday last, the number of arrests rose to nine.
A Bihar court on Tuesday granted bail to former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi after a non-bailable arrest warrant was issued against her in connection with a case lodged for making uncharitable remarks against former state Janata Dal-United chief Lallan Singh and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar during last Lok Sabha elections.
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.
Facing a non-bailable arrest warrant, Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam founder and leader of the opposition in Tamil Nadu assembly Vijaykanth on Thursday surrendered before a court in Tirunelveli in connection with a defamation case filed by the Jayalalithaa government.
The Madras high court on Thursday had ordered his release on bail in the Sankararaman murder case.
Former Communist Part of India-Marxist Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament Sarala Maheshwari's husband Arun Maheswari and son-in-law Amitabha Kejriwal were on Sunday arrested from near here for allegedly forging documents to buy land.
The judge, however, ruled that there was a clear prima facie case under Section 354 of IPC for 'assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty".
A local court in Panaji on Monday extended the judicial custody of Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tejpal for 12 days even as his lawyer moved a bail petition.
Justice R Pugalendhi of the Madurai Bench directed the Makkal Needhi Maiam founder to appear before the judicial magistrate court in Aravakurichi and execute a bail bond for Rs 10,000 with two sureties each for a like sum.
Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party president and MP Bandi Sanjay was on Friday released from Karimnagar jail after he was granted bail in the SSC paper leak case.
A court in Gujarat's Junagadh district on Wednesday granted bail to Islamic preacher Mufti Salman Azhari and two others in connection with a 'hate speech' case registered against them.
A purported video of the alleged incident is circulating on social media, where the accused BJP leader, Dinesh Kumar, is seen misbehaving with SI Bhardwaj by holding the collar of his uniform.
In a setback to Communist Party of India-Maxist in Kerala, several of the party's district and local functionaries figure in a charge sheet filed on Monday by police in the case of murder of Marxist rebel and Revolutionary Marxist Party leader T P Chandrasekharan in May last.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested an activist of the Maoist-backed People's Committee Against Police Atrocities from a village in Jhargram in connection with the Gyaneswari Express derailment, the police said on Tuesday.
India has taken up with authorities in Colombo the issue of arrest of 23 Tamil Nadu fishermen by Sri Lankan Navy when they were fishing near Katchatheevu in the Palk Straits on Sunday, Ministry of External Affairs said in New Delhi on Monday.
A local court in Jamshedpur has issued summons against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray for his remarks over Chatt festival leading to agitation in several parts of the country, including Bihar and Jharkhand. He has been asked to appear before the court on April 22. The court of first class judicial magistrate A K Tiwari issued the summons on Tuesday after examining witnesses Rajhans Tiwari, Sanjay Prasad and Niranjan Prasad (all lawyers).
A man who was suspected to have procured the weapon used to kill Mumbai-based journalist J Dey on Saturday surrendered in a court in Pithoragarh in connection with another case and was sent to judicial custody.
Two young girls were allegedly molested by an Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate in the Gonda district of Easter Uttar Pradesh, about 120 kilometres from Lucknow.
The Jharkhand high court has reserved its order on his petition challenging the arrest warrant against him.
'These cases are filed against me to prevent me from working for the weaker and deprived sections of the country.'
The two Italian marines of 'Encrica Lexie', who shot dead Indian fishermen off the Kerala coast on February 15 had used two Beretta rifles to commit the offence, according to the report of the forensic sciences laboratory
ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa and others have been produced before the Kamrup Chief Judicial Magistrate's court in Guwahati amid heavy security.
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