A day after a Supreme Court bail order, it took a late night phone call from a Chief Judicial Magistrate that prodded Indore jail authorities to swiftly make arrangements for the release of stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui, who is accused hurting religious sentiments.
After completing the pre-charge formalities, Judicial First Class Magistrate G Uthamraj sent the case file to principal district judge, Chengalpattu, who will assign the case to a sessions judge.
Former Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam minister K N Nehru's brother, who was detained at Kochi airport when he was on his way to Dubai, has been remanded in judicial custody.
A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Prithviraj Chavan will take up the matter for hearing on Thursday.
Seven months after Maval firing incident in which three farmers were killed and nine were injured when police fired upon protesters, Pune rural police has arrested 47 persons for attacking the police.
Cops name them as main accused in violence at Manesar plant, in which a senior official was killed.
A local court on Saturday slapped a fine of Rs 2,000 each on nine persons, including six Chinese nationals, for violating Immigration Act in Sikar district of Rajasthan.
Former Odisha law minister Raghunath Mohanty and his wife Pritilata, accused of torture by their daughter-in-law for dowry, were released on Tuesday after spending three days in jail following bail granted to them by a local court.
Three days after their arrest in a dowry torture case, former Odisha Law Minister Raghunath Mohanty and his wife were granted bail by a local court on Tuesday.
A local court has asked the prosecution to provide documents to authenticate the death of Major Avtar Singh, who was the key accused in the murder of Kashmiri human rights lawyer Jaleel Andrabi.
Goswami was arrested on Wednesday morning by Raigad police from his residence at Lower Parel in Mumbai for allegedly abetting the suicide of architect and interior designer Anvay Naik, and was taken to the Alibaug police station in neighbouring Raigad district.
Activist Irom Sharmila Chanu, who has been on fast for more than 12 years demanding repeal of the 'draconian' Armed Forces Special Powers Act from Manipur, was re-arrested by state police, officials said on Thursday.
Private detective Anurag Singh, the alleged main conspirator arrested in connection with the attempt to access call details of Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley, was on Tuesday remanded in judicial custody by a Delhi court.
Actor Salman Khan has approached the Bombay high court challenging the process (summons) issued to him by a lower court in connection with the alleged misbehaviour with a journalist in 2019.
The wife of former UP minister Amarmani Tripathi was absconding for four months.
Anbumani was picked up from his Chennai residence by a special team and was likely to be produced before the Judicial Magistrate court at Thirukazhukundram
Judicial magistrate, first class, Banihal, Manmohan Kumar also directed the superintendent of police, Ramban to monitor the investigation in the case and conclude it within a period of three months.
A local court on Friday dismissed a complaint filed against Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra for his reported comment 'mango man in banana republic' on a social networking site.
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.
Mumbai police formed 11 teams and also roped in the Crime Branch to nab the 24-year-old son of a ruling Shiv Sena leader after a BMW car the youth was driving crashed into a scooter, killing a woman and injuring her husband, an official said.
A Thane court on Wednesday directed the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) to stop its investigation into the death of businessman Mansukh Hiran and hand over case records to the National Investigation Agency immediately.
Union minister of state (MoS) for home affairs Ajay Mishra Teni's son Ashish Mishra, who has been accused in Lakhimpur Kheri incident, has been sent to three-day police remand with conditions on Monday.
According to the chargesheets filed by the crime branch, the abduction, rape and killing of the Bakerwal girl was part of a carefully planned strategy to remove the minority nomadic community from the area.
Chetia was deported to India last week after being jailed in Bangladesh for 18 years.
A Border Security Force constable arrested in connection with the killing of a 16-year-old boy in the Kashmir Valley which had sparked widespread protests earlier in February, has been remanded in 11-day judicial custody.
A video purportedly showing gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, lodged in Ahmedabad's Sabarmati Central Prison since August 2023, speaking to Pakistan's gangster Shahzad Bhatti on a video call surfaced on Tuesday, prompting the Gujarat government to order a probe.lawr
What really happened in Sathankulam, where the father-son duo of Jayaraj and Beniks died in an alleged case of police brutality, a case that has shocked India?
Earlier in the day, the magistrate had extended the judicial remand of Ravi Subramaniam, who had turned approver in the case, till February 3.
Ramkrishna Sarkar, the junior doctor of state-run Bankura Sammilani Medical College Hospital in south Bengal was on Thursday arrested on charge of raping a teenaged deaf and dumb patient three days back.
The police had said there are videos where Sidhu can be allegedly seen to be present at the site of the incident.
Bailable arrest warrants were issued against Rajesh and Nupur Talwar in connection with the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case by a special CBI court in Ghaziabad which rejected their plea for exemption from personal appearance before the magistrate. Rajesh and Nupur had been summoned by the court to appear before it on Monday after Special Judicial Magistrate Preeti Mishra, on February 9, rejected agency's closure report in the double murder case and made them accused.
A Mumbai court on Wednesday extended till July 4 the judicial custody of gangster Vijay Palande, his model wife Simran Sood and two associates for their alleged complicity in the murder of Delhi-based businessman Arun Tikku and aspiring film producer Karan Kakkad.
Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Legislative Council Ashok Kumar Agrawal charged with the killing of an employee of a petrol pump owned by him at Mirchaibari in the town, has been arrested.
The leader of opposition in Andhra Pradesh and Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu and 74 of his party colleagues refused to apply for bail forcing a Maharashtra court to extend their judicial custody. Preparations were being made to shift Naidu and others including 50 MLAs and 2 MPs to the Nasik Jail.
Peter, 59, husband of prime accused Indrani Mukerjea, was arrested on November 19 for his alleged role in the murder case and was in CBI custody for two weeks following which he was granted judicial remand.
Former Asian Games gold medallist quarter-miler Pinki Pramanik, who was arrested on rape charges after being accused of being a male, was remanded to 14 days judicial custody.
Holding that it was not within its purview, a local court today rejected the bail plea of two Italian marines on board the ship 'Enrica Lexie', who are charged with shooting dead two Indian fishermen off Kerala coast, and extended their judicial remand for another 14 days.
The murder charges capped dramatic developments both in the court and outside where a woman head constable witness to the happenings told a Magisterial probe that the two traders were thrashed an entire night by the other police personnel at Sathankulam station where they were detained over alleged lockdown violations late last month.
While Yoga Guru Ramdev was leading an agitation in Delhi on black money issue, his close aide Balkrishna's remand was on Monday extended by a Central Bureau of Investigation court for another 14 days in a case of forgery and violation of the Indian Passport Act.
The police had sought Goswami's custody for 14 days, but the court held that custodial interrogation was not required. After the court remanded Goswami in judicial custody, his lawyers Aabad Ponda and Gaurav Parkar filed an application seeking bail.
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