Two accused, arrested in connection with the death of a 19-year-old Arunachal Pradesh youth, on Friday argued in a Delhi court that they be granted bail as they have not been booked for murder charges and the offences alleged against them were bailable.
A special court in Mumbai on Wednesday allowed dismissed police officer Sachin Waze's plea to turn an approver in a corruption case involving former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh.
The SC termed the arrest as 'prima facie arbitrary'.
The order that was passed less than a week ahead of the first phase of polls scheduled on October 10 throws a spanner in the election process.
'They also think that if all opposition parties rally behind him, then 2024 will be Rahul versus Modi and that will be advantage BJP'
Nothing has ever been done to make bank officers accountable, except for the rare actions when there is a public controversy, argues Debashis Basu.
Tejpal, in a statement issued on Tuesday night, had accused the crime branch of hiding the crucial CCTV footage which he said could give the accurate version of the events.
The entire operation was meant to have a chilling effect on independent journalists, those not completely subservient to the regime, the small section still doing what the Fourth Estate should do -- raising questions to those in power.
The order grants permission to the UK High Court Enforcement Officer to enter the 62-year-old tycoon's properties in Hertfordshire, near London.
In her judgment handed down at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Justice Ingrid Simler concluded there were "substantial grounds" to believe that Modi would fail to surrender as he does possess the means to "abscond".
Pakistan Test batsman Umar Akmal was released from jail after spending an entire day in lock-up for allegedly thrashing a traffic warden and tearing his uniform after being stopped for violating a signal in Lahore.
A local court in Andhra Pradesh on Monday extended till February 5 the judicial remand of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi, accused of sedition and criminal conspiracy for his "hate speech."
A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud, Surya Kant, and PS Narasimha said that it is not casting any aspersion on the civil judge (senior division) who was earlier dealing with the suit.
A 'preliminary enquiry' has been launched into the 'disappearance' of Uttar Pradesh minister Rakesh Sachan from a courtroom in Kanpur 'without furnishing bail bonds' after being convicted in an Arms Act case, a senior police official said Sunday.
His co-accused actors -- Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Bendre, Tabu and Neelam - were acquitted in the 20-year-old case.
The family of the teenage girl, who was killed after being molested and thrown off a moving bus belonging to the ruling Badal family in Punjab, has refused to cremate her till the administration fulfils their demands for compensation and cancellation of the transport firm's permit.
'This bill is to relieve the government of accountability and to cover up its corruption.'
The top court, which had earlier fixed August 31 as the deadline for completion of proceedings including pronouncement of the verdict, took note of the report filed by special judge S K Yadav in the high-profile case.
The SC asked special judge to control the proceedings in accordance with law so that inordinate delay that is beyond the time-frame is no longer breached.
The voice of jailed Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen Member of Legislative Assembly Member Akbaruddin Owaisi, who is facing sedition charges for his alleged 'hate speech', was on Tuesday recorded by Andhra Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory even as a local court extended his judicial remand in the case until February 19.
Mumbai attack mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, who has been remanded to police custody in an abduction case, on Wednesday challenged his detention on charges of kidnapping in a Pakistani court.
Abdul Rehman Mir had alleged that his son Shabir Ahmad Mir was killed by police at his home on July 10 while the Jammu and Kashmir Police had claimed that he died during protests in the Valley.
N Sathiya Moorthy goes back in time to dig up three cases that may not have any citation in legal text-books or lawyers' ready-reckoners quoted before courts but which may still have a bearing on the current case against the arrested activists.
In the latest incident, two of the accused in the Bhiwani case, who are out on bail, allegedly raped her again, along with three other men.
During the course of the hearing last month, it emerged that Modi had made death threats to witnesses and also attempted to destroy evidence such as mobile phones and a server holding "material critical to the fraud".
A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice R K Agrawal on Monday recused itself from hearing the plea of Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi was on Thursday granted bail in connection with a 2005 case against him for allegedly obstructing the then Medak district collector and other officials from discharging their duties.
'Their role model is Iran: high control of the citizens by the State.' In Iran it is Islamic control; in India, it will be Hindutva control.'
The account turned bad before Chaudhari took over as SBI chairman and the asset was sold to AARC following an open bidding process, months after Chaudhari retired, explains Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
A court in Kerala on Friday denied bail to People's Democratic Party leader Abdul Madani's wife Soofiya Madani, an accused in the 2005 Tamil Nadu bus burning case, and remanded her in 14-day judicial custody.
The letter was written by 49 eminent personalities, including filmmakers Mani Ratnam, Anurag Kashyap, Shyam Benegal, actor Soumitra Chatterjee as well as vocalist Shubha Mudgal in July this year.
A CRPF vehicle had suffered slight damage when a Santro car went up in flames after an explosion at Tethar village, seven km from Banihal, shortly after a Jammu-bound convoy crossed the Jawahar Tunnel, the gateway to Kashmir valley.
Oomen Chandy poll rival remanded to custody
'How can the police, especially the Gujarat police, earn their laurels if they stick to the rule book?' asks lawyer Susan Abraham.
The Places of Worship Act is 'An Act to prohibit conversion of any place of worship and to provide for the maintenance of the religious character of any place of worship as it existed on the 15th day of August 1947, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto'.
As of now, there is nothing to suggest that the 'Michaelpatti episode' has the potential to polarise Dravidian Tamil Nadu on religious lines, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
A court in Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh on Thursday extended until February 12 the judicial remand of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen Member of Legislative Assembly Akbaruddin Owaisi in a 'hate' speech case.
A local court on Wednesday dismissed the bail plea of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief and Hyderabad Member of Parliament Asaduddin Owaisi for the second time in two days in connection with a 2005 case against him.
The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail to social activist Teesta Setalvad, arrested on June 25 for allegedly fabricating evidence to frame 'innocent people' in the 2002 Gujarat riots cases.
Controversial self-styled godman Nithyananda, arrested in an assault case, was granted bail by a Ramanagara court on Thursday by judicial first class magistrate Komala. Nithyananda was sent to one-day police custody on Wednesday after he surrendered before the court in Ramanagara, about 40 km from Bengaluru. He had later filed a bail petition
