The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a petition challenging the discharge of Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah in Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
The affidavit further said that the IT Rules impose a host of obligations on a company in relation to the security of the data collected by it in the course of its business.
The apex court will also decide whether the trial of the VVIP accused can be transferred from a court in Rae Bareli to Lucknow.
CS Anshu Prakash was allegedly assaulted during a meeting at Kejriwal's official residence on February 19 night.
The actress sought an interim order against the media till the time the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Mumbai, completes the investigation and files an appropriate report before the competent court.
A court in Bangalore on Monday framed charges against a French consular official for allegedly raping his three-and-a-half year old daughter.
Here is how the parents of S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandlia and Ankeet Chavan reacted to the court's verdict to dismiss all charges against them.
A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and M R Shah took serious note of Maharashtra government's shifting patients lodged in mental health institutes to homes for beggars and asked it to discontinue the practice immediately saying it is counter-productive and runs against the provisions of Mental Health Act.
He was arrested for criminal intimidation and promoting enmity between groups, police said, following remarks allegedly referring to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the state's hospitals.
The court ruled that chances of the legislator fleeing from justice was remote and he deserved the relief.
The court said had the prosecution witnesses not turned hostile, the outcome of the trial would have been different.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the state, told a bench comprising Justices Vineet Saran and Aniruddha Bose that whenever there is an allegation that a probe is not being carried fairly, the court takes the facts into account and then transfers the case to CBI after a prima facie conclusion.
AAP claimed that Jarwal was arrested based on a "frivolous" complaint.
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the plea of former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala and others, challenging their conviction and award of 10-year jail term in the teachers' recruitment scam case.
Six people were killed and over 100 injured when an explosive device strapped on a motorcycle went off near a mosque in Malegaon, a town about 200 km from Mumbai in north Maharashtra, on September 29, 2008.
'No Indian political party functions in a democratic way.'
In a Facebook post, Jaleel himself confirmed that he had put in his papers. "I am happy to say that those who had been baying for my blood can be relieved for now. I have submitted my resignation to the chief minister. Since the past two years, I have been facing a media onslaught," Jaleel, second minister in the LDF ministry to resign on nepotism charges, said in the post.
Politicians and bureaucrats find it very difficult to accept their failure and inability as it is not in their veins, the Delhi high court Wednesday said while expressing concerns over the condition of subordinate judiciary's judicial officers who are at risk of contracting COVID-19 owing to the nature of duties.
"We state that the most precious fundamental 'right to life' unconditionally embraces even an undertrial. The consideration made herein is keeping in view the peculiar facts and circumstances of this case.
Raising security issues, the defence lawyers referred to a media report on the death of a judge who had dealt with the case and said "misreporting has already caused prejudice to both sides". They said it was a "sensational" case and some untoward incident could happen if publication of reports was allowed.
Meanwhile, the Delhi HC refused to entertain a plea seeking immediate judicial intervention into the incident.
His lawyers moved the application, submitting that the clergyman was arrested after a three-day-long interrogation by the probe team.
The founder and former editor of Tehelka pleaded not guilty to the rape charge.
The CM also said that the Parliament Secretariat had issued a circular to the MPs stating that they can allot Rs 1 crore worth renovation and rehabilitation efforts in the flood-affected districts from Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme
The police told the court that 26-year-old Arora's custody was required to investigate whether there were other persons involved in the matter who conspired with her.
The youngest victim of pellet in Kashmir has been discharged from a Srinagar hospital after surgery on her right eye but doctors are not sure if her eyesight will be restored completely.
In a relief to college lecturer T J Joseph, whose hand was chopped off by activists of a radical outfit, a magistrate court in Idukki has exonerated him of the charge of hurting religious sentiments of a community through a question paper he set for his students.
This is the fourth death warrant issued for the execution of the convicts in the matter.
Former Board of Control for Cricket in India president Anurag Thakur on Friday got relief from the Supreme Court which dropped the contempt and perjury proceedings against him after he tendered an unconditional and unequivocal apology in person.
Charges against eight Muslim youths accused in the 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts case were on Monday dropped by a special court in Mumbai due to lack of evidence against them.
Jaju had filed a case of criminal intimidation in January before a magistrate in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh against Priyanka, Ashok Chopra and Chhota Shakeel after the actress and her father allegedly used the services of the don to intimidate him.
A Delhi court on Saturday granted bail to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a case of allegedly giving false information in an affidavit filed in the run up to 2013 assembly polls.
Singh, who was the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh when the 16th-century structure was razed on December 6 in 1992, was first taken in judicial custody by the court after he appeared before it in response to the summons in the demolition case.
Bhujbal approached the HC seeking to be released on bail considering his medical condition after a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act court rejected his bail plea.
'We will not accept this lollypop. They must make clear that where they want to give us the land'
There are still a couple of more applications, moved by different groups of the convicts, seeking retrial and quashing of TADA charges.
Senior advocate Parag Tripathi, appearing for the BCCI, referred to the recorded telephonic conversations in the matter and told the court it was clear that money was demanded and was 'probably received' also.
Following objection from petitioners who claimed conflict of interest.
The apex court asked Attorney General K K Venugopal to assist it to deal with the plea.
The court said that the offence of defamation was bailable and granted bail to Kejriwal on furnishing a personal bond of Rs 10,000 and a surety of the like amount.
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