It is a 'very disturbing' scenario in Maharashtra where former police commissioner Param Bir Singh does not have faith in his own force and the state government has no faith in the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday.
The top court directed the Maharashtra government to place before it the material which was collected during the investigation against Navlakha and placed before the high court in a sealed cover.
Granting them bail, Justice NK Balakrishnan said the two accused should execute a bond for Rs 1 crore each, besides two Indian sureties for the like amount
A Delhi court on Saturday cleared decks for the prosecution of hotelier S P Gupta by allowing the city government to withdraw its earlier plea to seek the quashing of three FIRs against him, allegedly at the behest of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram. "The court is of the considered view that nothing precludes prosecution from withdrawing its earlier plea for withdrawal of prosecution," said Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Manish Yaduvanshi.
The Delhi high court on Friday asked the city police to file a status report on its probe into the circumstances leading to death of Constable Subhash Tomar, who was allegedly assaulted by eight youth protesters during the anti-rape stir.
The Kerala government on Friday decided to recommend a judicial inquiry against central probe agencies, including the Enforcement Directorate, which are investigating the gold and dollar smuggling cases.
'I was shocked by the kidnapping episode. I could have lost my life.'
Relieved by the Karnataka high court order quashing the FIR against him in an illegal mining case, B S Yeddyurappa on Wednesday pinned hopes on the Bharatiya Janata Party central leadership to render "justice" to him, indicating a renewed bid for his reinstatement as chief minister.
12 properties of former Mumbai city Congress chief Kripashankar Singh and his family were on Friday attached by the Mumbai police, three days after lodging an FIR against them for possessing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.
With the high court rejecting his plea to quash the FIRs against him last week, police had severed a notice to Mani asking him to appear at the DySP office at Thodpouzha on Monday
The Supreme Court on Thursday clarified that its judgement on former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati was only in Taj Corridor case and it did not go into other aspects including merits of allegation of disproportionate assets amassed by the Bahujan Samaj Party supremo.
Adarsh Society's members have approached the defence ministry and the Central Bureau of Investigation, seeking quashing of the FIR filed in the alleged multi-crore scam in the housing society, in the wake of a judicial probe of the Maharashtra government which had stated that the land belonged to the state and not the defence forces.
Tamil Nadu government on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking two-day police custody of ultra-Left folk singer Kovan, who was granted relief by the Madras High Court in a sedition case.
In a setback to efforts by Italy to secure release of its two marines charged with murder of two Indian fishermen, the Kerala high court on Tuesday turned down its plea for quashing an FIR against them, holding that they were liable to penal jurisdiction of Indian courts.
In a surprise move, a complainant who had challenged Karnataka high court's move to quash the FIR against former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the alleged illegal mining case, Monday withdrew his appeal in the Supreme Court.
Italian authorities are contemplating moving the Kerala high court seeking to quash the FIR against their two naval guards, charged with killing two Indian fishermen, even as the wife of one of the victims on Tuesday filed a petition seeking Rs 1 crore compensation.
Treason charge carries death sentence as the maximum penalty while sedition is punishable up to life term.
Singh, who had accused the then Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh of corruption, has alleged frame up in criminal cases.
Samriddhi Sakunia and Swarna Jha, journalists with HW News Network, were produced before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) of Gomati district Shubhra Nath, who granted them bail on bail bonds of Rs 7,500.
Similar relief also extended to the director of the Malayalam movie Oru Adaar Love.
Asthana was sent on a forced leave after the CBI registered a case of corruption against him. His plea to quash the FIR was rejected by the Delhi high court.
Since the CJI was a part of the bench and author of the Tuesday's verdict which reinstated Verma as the CBI Director, he opted himself out of the panel's meeting which was ordered to be convened within a week.
It said as and when the protestors tried to infringe the law and failed to obey directions of enforcement agencies, appropriate legal action was taken against the miscreants.
The Bombay high court on Friday granted interim exemption to TV journalist Arnab Goswami from appearing before a magistrates court at Alibaug in adjoining Raigad district in connection with an abetment to suicide case.
Munawwar Ali Sayyad, a casting director and fitness trainer, had filed the complaintreferring to tweets and other statements of Ranaut and her sister.
Singh, a 1988-batch IPS officer, was removed from the post of Mumbai Police Commissioner on March 17 and was made the General Commander of Maharashtra State Home Guard after he levelled allegations of corruption and misconduct against the then Home Minister and senior NCP leader Anil Deshmukh.
Chidambaram's son Karti has been questioned twice by the ED in this case.
Expressing concern over damage to public and private properties during violent protests, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would lay down "parameters" to fix accountability for losses on organisers as the country cannot be held to "ransom".
After coming out of CBI headquarters in New Delhi, Chidambaram said he had appeared before the CBI and the first information report did not contain any allegations against him.
The Bombay high court on Thursday said that in democracy a person has the right to express views, but it does not confer a license to violate the constitutional rights of others. A bench of Justices S S Shinde and M S Karnik was hearing a petition filed by Sameet Thakkar, seeking to quash an FIR registered against him over his tweets against Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his son, minister Aaditya Thackeray.
The Supreme Court Wedunesday sought a response from the NIA on the bail plea of activist Gautam Navlakha in the alleged Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
'Today, the State is permanently going after politicians, but also civil society, academics and all those it is threatened by or irritated with.'
The four-member committee will be headed by Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi S Vempati. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said the present guidelines issued by it in 2014 on Television Rating agencies in India were notified after detailed deliberations by the Parliamentary Committee, Committee on Television Rating Points (TRP) constituted by the ministry and recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority etc.
Following is the chronology of events in the sensational 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case in which four death row convicts were hanged Friday morning.
In a relief to controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Uttar Pradesh police not to take any coercive action against her in connection with a first information report lodged by Muslim cleric Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan alleging that her Twitter posts insulted "religious" beliefs.
The top court termed the Rs 10 crore compensation paid by the Republic of Italy over and above the payment already made as "reasonable and adequate".
Quashing a case against 13 men who were arrested for allegedly indulging in obscene acts with women in a flat, the Bombay high court has said any such action done in a private place is not a criminal offence under the Indian Penal Code.
Union government limits powers of Anti Corruption Bureau to corruption cases involving Delhi state govt officials
A bench of Justice D Y Chandrachud and M R Shah said that his continued detention will be in violation of his fundamental right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution.
