Kannada filmmaker Hemant Kumar has been arrested for allegedly blackmailing and sexually harassing a television actress after promising her a lead role in his film, the police said on Tuesday.
The Bombay high court on Monday said the entire city has been brought to a standstill due to the ongoing Maratha quota agitation led by activist Manoj Jarange, and the protest has not been peaceful and violated all conditions.
The Karnataka High Court has ordered an investigation into a city civil court judge's conduct after he cited non-existent Supreme Court rulings in a case. The High Court expressed concern over the judge's actions, stating that the matter required further investigation. The case involved a revision petition challenging the civil court's jurisdiction in a commercial dispute. Senior Counsel Prabhuling Navadgi, representing the petitioners, argued that the lower court had rejected their application based on citations of judgments that did not exist. The High Court also allowed the revision petition, finding that the plaintiffs had used a tactic to file the case in a court that lacked jurisdiction.
The 34-year-old techie ended his life on December 9 in Bengaluru, alleging harassment at the hands of his estranged wife and her family.
Police have uncovered a nefarious scheme orchestrated by a man masquerading as a judge in his own fake tribunal and passing 'judgements' since 2019 especially in land deals in Gandhinagar area.
Trouble started brewing after Cognizant announced that Ravi Kumar, former Infosys president, would take over as the Nasdaq-listed company's CEO.
'I connected with the respective companies and requested them not to go ahead with the concept. But they turned a deaf ear.'
However, till Monday evening he was still in prison as formalities for his release could not be completed.
A bitter dispute has broken out in the Rajkot royal family of Gujarat over the ancestral property worth hundreds of crores with one of the members moving court.
Sood, who was in the limelight for helping migrants reach their homes during the lockdown last year, had stated in his plea that his application for conversion has been approved by the Municipal Commissioner subject to Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority permission.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday urged the Bombay high court to dismiss actor Sonu Sood's petition seeking to restrain the civic body from carrying out demolition at his property in Mumbai.
Justice Madanlal Laxmandas Tahaliyani, a retired judge of the Bombay high court, was on Monday sworn in as the new Maharashtra Lokayukta.
Senior All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader D Jayakumar on Wednesday slammed V K Sasikala, confidante of late party supremo J Jayalalithaa, for attempting to create confusion in the party using "audio politics" and for trying to "divide and rule."
Chief Minister K Palaniswami, meanwhile, asserted that the anticipated release of Sasikala would not alter the stand of the AIADM.
The courtsaid the actor had ample opportunity in the past and if required, he could approach the civic body.
Wearing the bloodstained cap and badge -- evidence in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case -- on the day of his retirement was a cocktail of emotions, says IPS officer Prateep V Phillip, who survived the ghastly attack that killed the former Prime Minister in a 1991 election rally near here.
In an audio clip of an phone conversation between Sasikala and one of the party cadres, which has gone viral on social media, the leader is heard confirming her plans of her return in the politics.
A city court restrained the All India Football Federation (AIFF) from preventing Mohun Bagan from participating in the I-League.
The advocates-media-police confrontation in Bengaluru in the wake of the city civil court complex violence on March 2 worsened on Thursday with police deciding to stage a black badge protest on Friday seeking action against lawyers who assaulted their personnel.
Satyam Computer Services on Monday said it has filed a suit in a Hyderabad court against its former Board of Directors, certain employees and the company's audit firm Price Waterhouse seeking damages for perpetrating fraud.
The police on Friday burst teargas shells and used batons to quell violent crowds of advocates, who pelted stones and attacked media persons and the police in the city civil court premises, leaving several of them injured including a deputy commissioner of police.
A Kolkata court on Monday upheld the order for the trial of the principal and three other teachers of La Martiniere for Boys School on charges of abetment to suicide in the case of Rouvanjit Rawla, who killed himself allegedly after being caned at the school.
The Karnataka High Court has refused to grant a stay on an appeal against City Civil Court's order of April 8 directing the trustees and Britannia Industries to pay the outstanding pension dues as per fund rules to the petitioners within the next two months.
They get notice in plagiarism case in their film, Sivaji.
Sanjay Patel, secretary of the Board of Control of Cricket in India, was on Wednesday removed from the secretary's post by his own state association Baroda CA after a city civil court in Vadodara rejected his plea to be reinstated in BCA's managing committee.
A Kolkata court dismissed an application by the former BCCI seeking fresh copies of documents and extension of time to reply to the allegations of misappropriation of PILCOM funds against him.
The former Board chief moved a Kolkata court challenging the summons to appear before its Disciplinary Committee in connection with the PILCOM accounts issue.
The Pune district and sessions court stayed a lower court order restraining the BCCI from suspending the cricketer pending an inquiry.
A Kolkata court directed the BCCI to postpone its disciplinary committee meeting till August 22.
The petitioner contended that the TNCA is staging the match despite knowing that rain could play spoilsport.
The Indian Cricket Board claimed the former cricket captain had no basis to allege that the board had adopted defective procedures.
Court stays Dalmiya's appointment as patron-in-chief
Arguements in the suit field by the former India captain continue.\n\n
A day after a city civil court restrained Union Minister Sharad Pawar from functioning as Mumbai Cricket Association president, the MCA managing committee appointed vice-president Ravi Savant as its interim chief.
A 'curfew-like' situation prevailed on the campus with heavy police security being deployed to prevent any untoward incident.
A petition has been filed by S.K.R. Karnan to stop the release as he feels that the film is based on the life of his grandfather.
The bi-annual elections of the Mumbai Cricket Association are unlikely to be held before October, its president Ravi Savant said in Mumbai, on Wednesday.
The Mumbai Cricket Association has changed its eligibility rules for contesting its forthcoming elections. The move is widely seen as a bid to prevent senior administrator Prof Ratnakar Shetty from regaining his place in its managing committee.
Former Mumbai Cricket Association vice-president Ratnakar Shetty filed a civil suit in a local court seeking a stay on the five-year ban imposed on him by the sport body, from whom he has demanded damages of Rs 50 lakh for "tarnishing his reputation".
It is understood he is moving court indicating lenders had been rough with him and, hence, caused damage.
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