On November 26 last year, the Allahabad High Court had rejected the bail pleas of Azam Khan and his son after which they moved the top court.
Dr Kafeel Khan and 80 others have been included in the list of history-sheeters in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh and they will be on the radar of police, officials said.
A court in Varanasi on Friday directed the Archaeological Survey of India to conduct a "detailed scientific survey" -- including excavations, wherever necessary -- to determine if the Gyanvapi mosque located next to the Kashi Vishwanath temple is built upon a temple.
Grappling with the intractable issue of Aligarh Muslim University's minority status, the Supreme Court said on Thursday the 1981 amendment to the AMU Act, which effectively accorded it a minority status, only did a "half-hearted job" and not restore to the institution the position it had prior to 1951.
The apex court had on August 29 taken note of the alleged controversial remarks of Khan that the gang rape case was a "political conspiracy".
The six months include the three months already spent in detention. The NSA allows preventive detention for up to a year.
While issuing a notice, the apex court pulled up both the Samajwadi Party-led state government and Azam Khan for their unwarranted comments.
Five members of the Muslim side also participated in the survey. Its advocate Tauheed Khan said advocates of the Intezamia Masjid Committee Akhlaq and Mumtaz accompanied the survey team.
The mere fact that some part of administration of an educational institution is also looked after by non-minority officials does not "dilute" its minority character, the Supreme Court observed on Wednesday while hearing the hugely disputed minority status of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).
'A balance has to be struck as some OTT platforms are also showing pornographic materials on their platforms'
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Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Pravin Togadia on Tuesday said the outfit's controversial yatra would continue as planned.
The SC invoked its special power under Article 142 of the Constitution to grant relief to Khan.
Terming dignity of women as "uncompromisable", the bench also asked the state government to ensure that the minor survivor of the gang rape gets admission in a nearby central school of the choice of her father.
The SC collegium had in 2016 recommended names of Harnaresh Singh Gill and Mohammed Nizamuddin for appointment as judges of the Punjab and Haryana high court and the Calcutta high court respectively.
Kafeel Khan's mother has demanded police protection for her family.
Wani, who was arrested by Delhi Police in 2001 allegedly with explosives and incriminating materials, is a resident of Peeparkari area of Srinagar
Aamir Khan's Lal Singh Chaddha was the first film screened at the Srinagar cinema.
The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court today issued notices to Aamir Khan Productions, Department of Information and Broadcasting and Censor Board of Film Certification challenging the public exhibition certificate issued to Delhi Belly.
Their names have been splashed across the front pages of all national newspapers in the last two weeks. An entire nation is waiting with bated breath for their decision on the Ayodhya title suit. And the three judges of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court will walk into court hall number 21 at 3.30 pm on Thursday to pronounce their verdict in the historic case.
The Allahabad high court on Friday fixed January 28 as the next date of hearing of the three review petitions on the Ayodhya title suits judgment.The special Lucknow bench of the court comprising justices S U Khan, Sudhir Agarwal and V K Dixit passed the order while hearing the review petition filed by lawyer M Ismail Farooqui.The court also extended the status quo on the implementation of the September 30 order up to February 15.
The Allahabad high court on Monday asked the Uttar Pradesh government and Noida Authority to file their counter-affidavits on the hundreds of petitions filed by the farmers of Gautam Buddh Nagar district, who have challenged the acquisition of more than 3,000 hectares of land for the development of Greater Noida and Noida Extension areas.
In a setback to the Mayawati government and thousands of apartment buyers, the Allahabad high court on Friday set aside acquisition of land in three villages of Noida, Greater Noida and Noida Extension areas while ordering enhanced compensation to farmers of some other villages in Gautam Budh Nagar district.
On July 31, 2019, the doctor was suspended for the second time while he was already under suspension for allegedly forcibly treating patients at the Bahraich District Hospital and criticising policies of the government.
This is the third arrest made by the STF in the case.
The idols or deity are not 'perpetual minors' and can also lose the right over a property under the doctrine of adverse possession, Justice S U Khan of the Allahabad high court said in his ruling on the Ayodhya title suits on Thursday.
The three-judge special bench of the Allahabad high court, comprising Justice S U Khan, Sudhir Agarwal and D V Sharma, on Thursday delivered the verdict into the Ayodhya title suit.
The petitioner Rajiv Nandi has challenged certain provisions of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971, which empowers a woman to get her pregnancy terminated if she is not medically fit to deliver a baby.
The court said that King Ashoka had given several messages to the world which are engraved in rock edicts which shows reverence towards faith of others.
The CBI has challenged the 2001 order of a Special CBI court dropping proceedings against the duo in the Babri Masjid demolition case on technical grounds.
With Ayodhya issue stuck in the quicksand of political and legal quagmire, a retired high court judge is spearheading a movement to resolve the issue peacefully and has claimed to have got the backing of over seven thousand locals -- both Hindus and Muslims.
The mother-daughter duo has moved the Supreme Court seeking transfer of the case to Delhi besides registration of FIR against UP minister Azam Khan for his remarks.
Supreme Court judge Justice D Y Chandrachud has termed the delay in communicating bail orders to prison authorities as a "very serious deficiency" and stressed the need to address it on a "war footing" as it touches the "human liberty" of every undertrial prisoner.
'I grew up in a place that used to be the best city in India: Allahabad.' 'The city has given some of the best writers, politicians and musicians to the country. 'Today, it has gone to the dogs.'
The use of words like 'if' and 'then' in the affidavit, which was to be an unconditional apology, has defeated the purpose, Rohatgi said.
The issue had cropped up when a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra was hearing the batch of appeals filed against the Allahabad high court's 2010 verdict by which the disputed land on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid area was divided in three parts.
SC was requested to judicially scrutinise whether Babur dedicated the disputed structure in Ayodhya to 'Allah'
Nearly a dozen first information reports have been lodged since the Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, was notified on November 27.
Amid the controversy over the 22 locked rooms in the basement of the Taj Mahal, the Archaeological Survey of India has released some photographs of closed underground cells.
Besides Yadav, the CBI is likely to question Gayatri Prajapati, who was arrested in 2017 following a complaint of rape by a woman residing in Chitrakoot.
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