While calling for the case records, the judge deferred the hearing and ordered that it be listed for tomorrow.
The defence plea that the accused could be given bail owing to his illness was not tenable, the court said.
Punia was arrested by police on Sunday in an FIR registered under various sections including 186 (Obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) and 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty) of IPC.
An advocate and the president of a political outfit have filed the petitions opposing grant of bail to the seer.
Businessman Abhishek Verma and his Romanian wife, arrested for allegedly receiving money from a Swiss arms firm to stall blacklisting proceedings against it, on Tuesday moved a Delhi court seeking bail on the ground that the Central Bureau of Investigation has failed to file the chargesheet against them in 60 days.
A suspended IPS officer accused in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case sought default bail on Thursday from the special court here, after the CBI which is investigating the case, failed to file a chargesheet within 90 days of his arrest.
The Allahabad high court has granted bail to three Kashmiri students, who were arrested on the sedition charge after they allegedly raised pro-Pakistan slogans following a cricket match in Agra last year.
Defence lawyer Harshad Nimbalkar pleaded that since she was not obstructing the investigation and made herself available for questioning, besides suffering from diabetes and being HIV positive, her's was a fit case of granting bail.
Jawaharlal Nehru University students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, facing sedition charge for allegedly raising anti-India slogans at the university campus last month, were on Friday granted interim bail for six months by a Delhi court on ground of parity with Kanhaiya Kumar.
Mahdani was arrested for the 1998 serial bomb blasts in Coimbatore and held in prison for the past eight years.
Bandyopadhyay had approached the high court in February seeking regular bail on health grounds.
A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha, while granting them the relief took note of the time they have already served and the unlikelihood of their appeals being taken up for disposal anytime soon.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Ahmedabad on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of a Gujarat police official who is one of the main accused in the case relating to the killing of Sadik Jamal in an alleged fake encounter with state police in 2003.
Maoist leader Koteshwar Rao on Thursday asked both the West Bengal and the Union governments to halt police action or risk harm to kidnapped police officer Attendranath Dutta.
The VHP leader had been arrested in Ajmer on April 13 for violating a ban on distribution of tridents.
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the bail applications of two senior IPS officers -- M N Dinesh and N K Amin -- allegedly involved in the fake encounter killing of Soharabuddin Sheikh. Dinesh, a Rajasthan cadre officer and Amin, a deputy superintendent of police rank officer in the Gujarat police had challenged the cancellation of their bail by the Gujarat High Court.Dinesh had allegedly assisted the Gujarat police in the encounter.
The bail amount includes $2.5 million for Versha who was accused of actually torturing the Indonesian women and $1 million for Mahender who was accused of allowing the torture to take place.
The five were not arrested during the probe into the case.
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court conducting the trial of seven suspects charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks reserved till Monday, its decision on a bail petition filed by Lashkar-e-Tayiba operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi.
Kumar, who was arrested by Gurgaon SIT, has not got a clean chit from the CBI.
Friday's hearing is expected to be presided over by Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot, the same judge who had ordered the extradition of former Kingfisher Airlines boss Vijay Mallya last December.
A local court on Monday rejected the bail applications of two accused in custody for their alleged role in riots at Azad Maidan on August 11.
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday extended the two anticipatory bail applications and a petition demanding cancellation of abetment to suicide charges against former Haryana Director General of Police SPS Rathore, in connection with the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, till January 25.The high court had earlier on January 12 rejected the interim bail plea of Rathore, and asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to file its reply in the case by January 18.
The Karnataka high court on Friday reserved its order on the anticipatory bail application of former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, who will appear before Lokayuta on Saturday to face allegations of denotification of government land for "personal gains".
The Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP remains defiant despite 50 days in jail.
The bench said the report submitted by the special judge indicates that he has 29 cases with him. In many cases, the trial has begun while in many others the trial is yet to begin.
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has rejected the bail application of one of the seven suspects facing trial in connection with the Mumbai attacks, which India has blamed on the banned militant outfit Laskar-e-Tayiba.
The court put various conditions on Khaitan, including that he will not tamper with the evidence or try to contact or influence the witnesses and join the investigation as and when called.
A special court on Tuesday declined to hear the bail application of Rajesh Talwar, key accused in the Noida twin murder case, on the ground that it was not empowered to take up the plea.Special Magistrate for Central Bureau of Investigation's cases Sapna Mishra observed that the sessions court was competent to take up the bail matter of Talwar, who is at present in judicial custody.Counsel for Talwar Satish Tamta said that the defence will move the Sessions Court soon.
Former Telecom Minister A Raja, Dravid Munnetra Kazagham MP Kanimozhi and seven others, chargesheeted by the Enforcement Directorate in a 2G scam-related money laundering case, were on Wednesday granted bail by a special Central Bureau of Investigation court.
The bail pleas of mining baron and former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law B V Srinivas Reddy were on Thursday rejected by a local court; the third time since their arrest in the alleged illegal mining case, involving the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC).
Lakhvi's lawyer Khwaja Sultan, who has been accused by the prosecution of filing numerous petitions to delay the trial, told PTI that his client would not approach the Lahore High Court for bail.
Nupur Talwar, an accused in the 2008 double murder of her daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj, will have to spend a second night in jail after a Ghaziabad court on Tuesday reserved till Wednesday its order on her bail plea. Additional District Judge S Lal reserved the order on the bail application of Nupur, who was sent to jail on Monday, after hearing arguments of her counsel as well as the Central Bureau of Investigation, which opposed any relief to her.
A 37-year-old man accused of raping a woman inside a bus at Swargate bus station in Pune was arrested after a days-long manhunt. The accused, Dattaray Ramdas Gade, was hiding in a paddy field in his native Shirur tehsil. Police used drones and sniffer dogs to track him down.
The Delhi high court on Tuesday denied bail to three persons, convicted along with 12 others in the 2010 Mirchpur Dalit killings case. A bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and S P Garg dismissed the interim bail applications of convicts Kulwinder, Dharambir and Ramphal, after perusing the reports furnished by the senior superintendent of police of Hissar district in Haryana.
His family thanked the Tyagi Community for its support during their ordeal.
Sri Lanka cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka was granted bail in Sydney on Thursday, reversing an earlier decision in the case of the alleged sexual assault of a woman while on tour in Australia for the T20 World Cup.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday dismissed a petition by Neelam Azad, an accused arrested in the December 13 Parliament security breach case, seeking her release on the grounds that her police remand was illegal.
A Delhi court on Tuesday granted bail to actor Jacqueline Fernandez in a Rs 200 crore money laundering case involving alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekar.
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