Kochi: The Kerala court that acquitted actor Dileep in a 2017 actress assault case invoked a Latin phrase in its judgment, stating, “Let justice be done though the heavens fall.” In the 1,709-page judgment, Ernakulam District Principal and Sessions Court Judge Honey M Varghese discussed the allegation levelled against it by prosecution and defence, in…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court held on Wednesday that the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) formed in one department can entertain a complaint of sexual harassment under the POSH Act against an employee of a different department. A bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi said a narrow interpretation of the provisions of the…
New Delhi: Bollywood actor Salman Khan has approached the Delhi High Court seeking protection of his personality rights. The plea is scheduled to be heard on Thursday by Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora. Khan has moved the high court seeking to restrain various social media platforms and e-commerce websites from unauthorisedly using his name, images,…
Mumbai: A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed before the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court seeking a court-monitored probe into the fire incident at the ‘Birch by Romeo Lane’ nightclub that killed 25 persons. The petition, filed by social activist Aishwarya Salgaonkar, said the nightclub was operating without a valid construction licence…
Gurugram: Skill development centres, polytechnic diploma courses, and ITI-level vocational programmes were launched for inmates inside various jails in Haryana on Saturday. Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant inaugurated these initiatives from the district prison Bhondsi in Gurugram under the project ‘Empowering Lives Behind Bars, Real Change: The New Paradigm of Correctional Justice’. As…
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday extended the NIA custody of Soyab, a Faridabad resident accused of harbouring Red Fort bomber Umar-un Nabi, for 10 more days. The probe agency produced Soyab at the Patiala House Court amid tight security on Friday upon the expiry of his previous 10-day custody, which was granted on…
Nagpur: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the Maharashtra State Election Commission (SEC) not to hold the counting of votes for the first phase of local body polls on December 3, on the ground that the “disclosure of public mood” through the results might affect the subsequent phase of the elections. The results of…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to a man who was accused of cheating a businessman of Rs 3.9 crore by impersonating the nephew of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. A bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi noted that the accused, Ajay Kumar Nayyar, has undergone over four years…
New Delhi: Industrialist Anil Ambani has moved the Supreme Court challenging an order of the Bombay High Court, which upheld the State Bank of India’s (SBI) decision classifying his and Reliance Communications’ accounts as fraud. The matter is yet to be listed for hearing. The High Court had on October 3 dismissed Ambani’s plea challenging…
New Delhi: OTT platform Netflix on Thursday opposed in the Delhi High Court a plea by IRS officer Sameer Wankhede seeking an interim injunction on the series “The Ba***ds of Bollywood”, saying the show exposes Bollywood culture, satire, and dark comedy and can’t be enjoined in a defamation suit. Wankhede has sought that the series,…
