In an embarrassment to the Enforcement Directorate (ED), a Delhi court on Thursday termed the arrest of an accused in a money laundering case linked to a UPA-era defence deal with aircraft manufacturer Embraer "illegal" and ordered his release.
The Delhi high court on Monday directed Trinamool Congress leader Saket Gokhale on Monday to apologise and pay Rs 50 lakh damages to former diplomat Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri, wife of Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri, for his defamatory tweets against her over the purchase of a property in Switzerland.
Additional Session Judge Dharmender Rana issued notice to Tihar Jail authorities on the pleas moved of Akshay Singh and Pawan Kumar Gupta, directing the officials to file their response by March 2.
Judge said that she was not persuaded by the argument from Assange's legal team that it was not in the public interest to pursue him for skipping bail.
The Delhi high court will pronounce on Tuesday its verdict on a plea by the Enforcement Directorate seeking a stay on the trial court order granting bail to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the money laundering case stemming from the alleged excise scam.
Political parties have also been asking for action against Yadav.
The Aurangabad bench of Bombay High Court on Monday stayed the non-bailable arrest warrant issued by a local court against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray for four weeks.
In its order, the high court was critical of the delay caused by the authorities in seeking issuance of death warrants for the convicts as also of the "delay tactics" adopted by the convicts.
Taking note of this, the judge issued a fresh and permanent non-bailable arrest warrant for Musharraf, currently living in self-exile outside Pakistan. The prosecutors also asked the court to issue orders to confiscate Musharraf's moveable and immovable property.
Once such a notice is issued against a fugitive, the Interpol asks its 192-member countries to arrest or detain the person if spotted in their countries after which extradition or deportation proceedings can begin.
A Delhi court on Tuesday sent former Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey to judicial custody till August 16 in a money laundering case related to alleged illegal phone tapping and snooping of national stock exchange (NSE) employees.
This warrant will be sent to the ministry of external affairs which in turn will be sending it to the United Kingdom
The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court on Wednesday stayed the arrest warrant against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray till January 4, 2010.The Badnapur JMFC court had issued the arrest warrant against Raj in connection to a stone pelting incident at a bus near Hirvi Phata in Badnapur of Jalna district on October 21 in 2008. Justice S S Shinde of the Aurangabad bench passed the order and advocate Sagar Ladda appeared for Raj.
Non-bailable warrant was issued by a local court against bollywood star Suniel Shetty for not appearing before it in a cheque bounce case filed by a city-based shop owner.
The Danish high court, which is hearing the extradition case of Purulia arms drop case accused Kim Davy, has rejected his plea that since the warrant produced by the Central Bureau of Investigation was an old one it cannot not be the basis for handing over him to India.
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has issued an arrest warrant against a man from Balochistan, for supplying a boat used by the terrorists, who attacked Mumbai on July 26 last year. The anti-terror court of Justice Muhammad Akram Awan on Friday issued a warrant for the arrest of Muhammad Khan, a resident of Turbat in Balochistan province, for providing the boat used by terrorists to travel to Mumbai.
The arrest warrant was issued in a case of cheating.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday has issued a non-bailable warrant against Sahara chief Subrata Roy for his failure to appear in court.
Singh had resigned from the post last week after his name cropped up in the scam.
In the arms case, a Maharashtra ATS team had chased a Tata Sumo and an Indica car on the Chandwad-Manmad Highway on May 8, 2006, and arrested three terror suspects while seizing a huge cache of 30 kg RDX, 10 AK-47s and 3,200 bullets from the vehicle and along the road. The Indica, which was allegedly driven by Jundal, who hails from Beed district, however, could not be intercepted at that time, according to ATS.
A magistrate allegedly issued warrants against the President of India and the Chief Justice of India in lieu of Rs 40,000.
A local Bhopal court on Friday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against Congress leader Digvijay Singh in an alleged recruitment scam at assembly secretariat which took place when he was the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh.
A Muzaffarnagar court on Wednesday issued warrants against a Bahujan Samaj Party MLA and his brother, accused of raping and forcefully confining 48 circus artists from Nepal. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Sumit Chandra issued the bailable warrants against BSP MLA from Bulandshahar Mohammed Azim and his brother Mohammed Yunus.
'As the firing started everything went haywire.'
He has to appear before the court on January 24, 2019.
Warrant was also issued against former air chief marshal N C Suri and PCM Limited Chairman Vinod Vaidya in connection with a case of bouncing of cheques.
A sessions court in Khambhaliya taluka of Jamnagar district has issued a bailable warrant against suspended IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt in a case dating back to 1990, where a person had died, allegedly, after receiving a beating by the police. The warrant was issued by Additional Session Judge N T Solanki on Tuesday, after Bhatt, an accused, failed to appear. Bhatt had accused Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi of misusing the state machinery during 2002 post-Godhra riots. Th
The warrants were the outcome of a sting operation by a television journalist to expose corruption in the lower judiciary in Gujarat.
The Supreme Court will hear on Monday a batch of pleas related to the controversy-ridden medical entrance exam National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) 2024, including those alleging irregularities and malpractices in the May 5 test and seeking a direction to conduct it afresh.
A bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta referred to a larger bench, preferably of five judges, for in-depth consideration of three questions on the aspect of "need and necessity of arrest" under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The Delhi high court on Thursday rejected petitions by the Congress challenging the initiation of tax reassessment proceedings against it for a period of four years by tax authorities.
Judicial Magistrate of Tirumangalam near Madurai issued the warrant against Panneerselvam, former ministers K A Senottaiyan and Pollachi Jayaraman and 17 others on Friday.
The non-bailable warrant against dentist Nupur Talwar in the double murder case of her teenaged daughter, Aarushi and their domestic help, Hemraj, was today extended by special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Ghaziabad till April 30.
An official said Akshay Shinde, who worked as a cleaner at the school, was being taken to Badlapur from Taloja jail for investigation.
Eleven persons, including five army personnel, five policemen and a civilian were accused of conspiring to kill and murdering Showkat Ahmad Kataria, a priest in a mosque at Zadibal in Srinagar, in a fake encounter on October 4, 2006. The accused include Colonel Vikram Singh of 13 Rashtriya Rifles, his second in command V K Sharma, Major Rishi, Junior Commissioned Officer Puran Singh and Naik Satya Lal.
A Pakistani court on Friday issued non-bailable arrest warrant against former military dictator Pervez Musharraf and ordered police to present him in the court in the murder case of Lal Masjid cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who was killed in a military operation in 2007.
The special court on Monday rejected Kingfisher's plea challenging ED's claim that Rs 430 crore (Rs 4.3 billion) was siphoned off and used to acquire properties abroad.
A court in Thiruvananthapuram has issued an arrest warrant against former Kerala chief minister E K Nayanar quite late--five years after his death--with the police failing to inform the magistrate about the Marxist leader's demise. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate S Gopalakrishnan issued the warrant for the second time on Tuesday as police had not informed the court that Nayanar had died when the court issued the warrant for the first time in the case in January 2007.
The CID, probing charges against Yediyurappa of sexually assaulting a minor girl, has alleged in the chargesheet that he and three other accused paid money to the alleged victim and her mother to buy their silence.
