Lal Masjid's chief cleric Abdul Aziz has been acquitted by a Pakistani court in four of the 12 cases registered against him for various crimes, including challenging the government writ by keeping illegal arms. Judicial Magistrate Kashif Qayyum Sheikh on Monday acquitted Aziz in the four cases that were registered against him at Aabpara police station in Islamabad. The charges in these case included delivering provocative speeches against former President Pervez Musharraf.
The convicts were arrested from Jammu and Saharanpur.
It was tough to say if Roy was in police custody or vice versa.
Over seven hours after he was arrested, Sahara Chief Subrata Roy was produced in a court here which directed the UP police to keep him in custody till March 4 when he will be produced before Supreme Court.
The Palghar Judicial Magistrate on Thursday accepted the closure report filed by the police in connection to the Facebook case.
Forest officials registered the case against Mohanlal and two others, filing the first information report (FIR) before Chief Judicial Magistrate at Perumbavoor yesterday naming the 52-year-old actor as the first accused.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday alleged that former Gujarat minister Amit Shah was heading an extortion syndicate culminating in the fake encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh.
More than a month after a lower court in Guwahati pronounced verdict in connection with the infamous July 9, 2012 Guwahati molestation case, the Assam government has moved the Gauhati high court, contesting acquittal of four of the accused including a TV journalist in the case.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday filed two separate chargesheets against three accused for murdering Uttar Pradesh Chief Medical Officers V K Arya and B P Singh after they started probing National Health Rural Mission irregularities and also named then deputy CMO Y S Sachan, who was found dead in Lucknow jail, in the conspiracy.
The Kerala high court on Wednesday declined to stay further proceedings pending in a lower court against Union Minister Shashi Tharoor and posted for Thursday the case relating to alleged disrespect to the national anthem.
The court also asked the Investigating Officer to file a report in this regard by Saturday.
The sex scandal that rocked Jammu and Kashmir last year took a new turn on Monday, when the state High Court directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to place all records related to the eight accused before the chief judicial magistrate for judicial action. The accused include one senior minister, two MLAs and several senior police officials. The high court's order has caused ripples in the state's political, administrative and social circles.
Haroon Rashid Abdul Hamid Naik, allegedly a member of Indian Mujahideen, arrested in a fake currency case, was on Friday sent to judicial custody by a local court.
The next hearing in the case will be in April 12.
The complaint has accused Haasan of hurting religious sentiments of the Hindus by making the "inflammatory and derogatory remark of Hindu terrorism".
A Pakistani court on Friday remanded beleaguered former President Pervez Musharraf to judicial custody for 14 days while another court rejected a request to bar him from travelling out of the country.
Bahujan Samaj Party Member of Parliament Shafiqur Rahman Barq, who had walked out of Lok Sabha while Vande Mataram was being played, has been dragged to court by a social activist for "showing disrespect" to the national song. Pradip Tewari, in his petition filed in the Chief Judicial Magistrate's court of Pilibhit district on Monday, has also accused Barq of passing derogatory remarks against Vande Mataram, his counsel Sant Ram Rathore said.
The Madras high court on Thursday ordered issuing notice to deposed All Indi Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Paneerselvam and his relatives on a criminal revision case initiated on its own, relating to their discharge in a disproportionate wealth case by a trial court in 2012.
A court in Erode has acquitted the widow of slain forest brigand Veerappan along with 10 accused while sentencing 13 others to one-year rigorous imprisonment in the sensational kidnap of late Kannada thespian Rajkumar in 2000.
The special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Monday gave bail to suspended Indian Police Service officer G L Singhal and three other Gujarat police officers arrested by the CBI in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case. Bail was granted as CBI failed to file a chargesheet against them within the mandatory 90 days from arrest.
The VIIIth Metropolitan Magistrate remanded him to judicial custody for 14 days.
The court extended the judicial custody of pacer S Sreesanth and 22 others in the IPL spot fixing case till June 18 after Delhi Police informed it has invoked MCOCA provisions against them.
Malti Sachan, wife of former Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Medical officer Y S Sachan, moved an application in a court in Lucknow on Tuesday questioning the Central Bureau of Investigation probe into her husband's murder case, and sought a copy of agency's closure report.
A local court on Monday issued a non-bailable warrant against Durai Dayanidhi, son of Union Minister M K Alagiri, in the multi-crore illegal granite quarrying scam case.
Seventeen people sentenced to life imprisonment for a triple murder in Tamil Nadu more than two decades ago have been acquitted by the Supreme Court due to lack of evidence.
The proceedings of a local court hearing the bail application of Noida double murder case accused Rajesh Talwar on Wednesday were postponed for an hour after some lawyers agitating on the Gujjar issue entered the court room and shouted slogans. Talwar, now in judicial remand, was brought to the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate A K Singh from Dasna Jail in Ghaziabad on Tuesday morning for the hearing of his bail plea and an application filed by police for seeking his
Two separate complaints were on Wednesday filed in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh against Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh for allegedly calling Baba Ramdev a 'thug.'
The Jammu and Kashmir police arrested a Lashker-e-Tayiba terror module comprising six persons who were tasked to burn down religious shrines, raising suspicion that the famous Dastageer Saheb shrine could have been set on fire by the same group.
The woman, belonging to the Bheel community, was allegedly gangraped by Devesthan Department of the state government on October 1.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday filed a chargesheet in a special court here in the 2006 Tulsi Prajapati fake encounter case in which former minister of state for home and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah has been named along with 19 others.
Terror suspect and 26/11 handler Abu Jundal's police custody was extended till October 3 by a court in Nashik on Monday.
Bodoland Peoples' Front Member of Legislative Assembly Pradeep Brahma, who was arrested for his alleged involvement in the recent violence in Assam, has been granted bail by the Gauhati high court.
Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attack, was on Thursday c sent back to a Rawalpindi jail after a court here remanded him to 14 days judicial custody for the abduction of an Afghan national.
In a dramatic turn of events, renowned Marathi author H M Marathe was on Wednesday arrested and released on bail after being booked for allegedly spreading communal hatred.
A complaint case was on Monday filed in Nalanda district court against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray for his hate speech against the Bihari people.
A court in Allahabad on Wednesday turned down a petition seeking a direction to the police to register a First Information Report against yoga guru Baba Ramdev and his associate Balakrishna for publishing an article in a magazine brought out by them which allegedly defamed Buddhists.
Radical preacher Amritpal Singh's aide and kidnapping accused Lovepreet Singh walked out of a jail in Amritsar on Friday, hours after a court in Ajnala ordered his release based on an application by the police.
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 court in New Delhi extended the judicial custody of former Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar in an alleged forged degree case by 14 days on Monday.
A former MLA and a prominent leader from the CPI(M) bastion of Kannur, Jayarajan has been charged under Section 118 of IPC (concealing design to commit offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life), in connection with the murder of Muslim League youth activist Abdul Shukkoor at Keezhara in February this year.
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