The Supreme Court has awarded life sentence to four members of a Dawood Ibrahim-Chotta Shakeel gang with Pakistani ISI links responsible for killing three Shiv Sena workers in Mumbai in March 1999 but rejected Mahrashtra's appeal for death sentence t ..
The Supreme Court refused to entertain a petition seeking a CBI inquiry into the allegation of a foreign country’s involvement in 2003 Marad Massacre in Kerala.A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam, however, ..
The Madras High Court has directed a private bank to sanction educational loan to a Scheduled Caste (SC) applicant within a month to meet his expenses for MBA course.Allowing a plea by the student, Justice K Suguna said educational loans were welfare ..
The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has held that the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) was vicariously liable for the electrocution of a six-year-old girl in a case of electricity theft and recommended to pay a compensation of Rs 50,000 to he ..
To facilitate speedy disposal of court cases, the Himachal Pradesh government has decided to introduce video conferencing in the District Courts of Kullu, Dharamshala, Shimla and Mandi.‘Sub-Jail at Bilaspur, District Jail at Dharamsala, Central ..
About 8,000 lawyers practising at the district and sessions court here will go on leave en masse for four days from Tuesday owing to the swine flu outbreak. The Pune Bar Association (PBA) took a decision in this regard at a meeting held at the civil ..
The Patna High Court on Monday issued a notice to the former Chief Justice of the Patna High Court, Justice J N Bhat, asking him to state whether or not he would take charge as the Chief Information Commissioner of the State Information Commission ( ..
The State Information Commissioner (SIC) on Monday slapped fine on public information officer-cum-block development officer (BDO), Danapur, for not supplying information to one Bakhora Choudhary under RTI Act between March 11 to August 3, 2009. As pe ..
Growing concern over the security lapses on the court premises led the senior officials of CRPF as well as the district police chief to a spot visit and subsequent discussion over measures that will be taken in future to enhance its security. CRPF co ..
Chief minister Ashok Gehlot apprised the Centre of the various steps taken by the state to curb the growing threat of terrorism following the May 13 serial blasts. He was in the Capital to attend the "Conference of Chief Ministers" on inter ..