New Delhi: Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee has moved the Supreme Court challenging a Calcutta High Court order denying him permission to travel abroad for eye treatment. The high court had on August 5 dismissed Banerjee’s plea seeking nod to travel abroad, noting that the Diamond Harbour MP was not willing to appear before the…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked petitioners, including a doctors’ association, to file their replies to the Centre’s affidavit, which said that the migration of the NEET (UG) examination from the pen-and-paper mode to a computer-based mode on the pattern of JEE (Mains and Advanced), is under active consideration. A bench of Justices…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has found former Tehelka magazine editor Tarun Tejpal guilty of raping a former colleague, overturning his 2021 acquittal in a decade-old sexual assault case. The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court said it was convicting Tejpal under sections of Indian law about rape and sexual harassment, legal website LiveLaw…
New Delhi: Exercise restraint was the message from the Supreme Court to the law enforcement agencies on Wednesday as it agreed to hear a plea seeking action against organisers of the July 20 “Sansad Chalo’ march for allegedly inciting violence. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana tagged…
New Delhi: The Centre has told the Supreme Court that it has undertaken a comprehensive overhaul of the conduct of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) to eliminate paper leaks and systemic failures. In a compliance affidavit filed before a bench headed by Justice P S Narasimha, the Ministry of Education said the reforms are aimed…
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday acquitted former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh and co-accused Vinod Tomar in a sexual harassment case filed by women wrestlers. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Ashwini Panwar acquitted ex-BJP MP Singh and Tomar, former WFI assistant secretary, in the case. Speaking to reporters outside…
New Delhi: Former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Tahir Hussain was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday in connection with the murder of Intelligence Bureau (IB) staffer Ankit Sharma during the 2020 North East Delhi riots. Sharma, 26, went missing near the Chand Bagh Pulia on 25 February that year. His body was found the next…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said that pellet guns cannot be banned as long as the existing advisory permits their use for crowd control in exceptional circumstances by security agencies, while making it clear that allegations of specific misuse can be examined on a case-by-case basis. The top court took note of a…
New Delhi, Jul 30: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Centre to preserve the ammunition log of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel deployed at Jantar Mantar during the students’ protest over the NEET paper leak, while agreeing to examine the use of pellet guns during the demonstrations. A Bench comprising Chief Justice Surya…
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday said the right to protest does not extend to damaging the “seat of sovereignty,” and a police officer’s image cannot be “tarnished” over an alleged “overuse of power” during the July 20 march to Parliament against the NEET paper leak. Justice Girish Kathpalia made the observations while…
