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…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that no coercive action be taken against protestors involved in the recent student protests led by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar and various other States. A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana also ordered immediate release of minors detained…
New Delhi: A petition was filed in the Supreme Court by a former IPS officer and two persons, who claimed to have been injured by pellet guns fired during the recent Cockroach Janta Party-led Parliament march to protest against NEET paper leak. The petition filed by Yashovardhan Azad, Prashant Kumar and Sheikh Irshad Mansoori through…
New Delhi: The Delhi Police urged a court here on Monday to sentence former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and four others to death in the murder case of IB officer Ankit Sharma during the 2020 Delhi riots, saying “they fell to the level of being animals” while relentlessly assaulting him. The submissions were made before…
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Monday cancelled the Vijay-led TVK government’s decision to provide public employment to the families of those who died in the Karur stampede last year, saying it violates Article 14 (Right to Equality) and Article 16 (Equality of Opportunity in Government Employment) of the Constitution. The High Court further noted…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday passed an interim order prohibiting the extraction, editing, dissemination, reposting, uploading or monetisation of audio and video recordings of judicial proceedings on social media and other digital platforms without prior permission from the concerned court. A Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and…
