New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday discharged former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his ex-deputy Manish Sisodia in an excise police-related corruption case, refusing to take cognisance of the CBI chargesheet. Special Judge Jitendra Singh said that the chargesheet had several lacunae not supported by evidence, as he discharged 21 more besides the…
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday sent three accused brought to the capital after a dramatic 24-hour standoff with the Shimla police following their arrest in the hill state over the shirtless protest at the AI Impact Summit here last week to three-day police custody. Chief Judicial Magistrate Mridul Gupta passed the order on Delhi…
New Delhi: A court here on Wednesday extended the judicial custody of five Indian Youth Congress (IYC) workers who were arrested for holding a ‘shirtless’ protest at the AI Impact Summit at Bharat Mandapam on February 20. Judicial Magistrate Ravi extended the custodial interrogation of the accused persons. The five arrested IYC workers include Krishna…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the NIA for referring to certain alleged inflammatory speeches of 1990s while opposing the bail plea of Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah in a terror funding case. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) told a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta, which was hearing arguments…
New Delhi: The New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday took suo motu cognisance of the contents of Class 8 NCERT textbook referring to the corruption in the judiciary and termed it a matter of “grave concern.” A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi was urged by…
Prayagraj (UP): A special POCSO court here on Saturday ordered the Jhunsi Police Station SHO to register an FIR against Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati to investigate allegations of sexual abuse of boys. Last week, the court of Special Judge (POCSO Act) Vinod Kumar Chaurasia reserved its decision on an application filed by Ashutosh Brahmachari Maharaj and…
Mumbai: Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha’s signature “Khamosh” dialogue is “exclusively associated” with his persona, the Bombay High Court has said while prohibiting the use of his name, images and other personal attributes to create online content without his consent. In an interim order passed on a petition filed by Sinha, Justice Sharmila Deshmukh on February 16…
Thane/Mumbai: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday appeared before the Bhiwandi magistrate’s court to furnish a fresh surety in a 2014 defamation case filed by an RSS activist, naming the party’s Maharashtra chief Harshwardhan Sapkal as his new guarantor. Gandhi, on his way to the court in Maharashtra’s Thane district, faced a black-flag protest by…
New Delhi: Dismayed over the ongoing tussle between the West Bengal government and the Election Commission, the Supreme Court on Friday issued an “extraordinary” direction to deploy serving and former district judges to assist the poll panel in the controversy-ridden special intensive revision of electoral rolls in the state. Ruing the “unfortunate blame game” and…
Lucknow: Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi is set to appear before an MP-MLA court in Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur on Friday to record his statement in a defamation case related to his remarks against Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The Congress leader arrived here in the morning and drove straight to Sultanpur for the court hearing….
