Orissa High Court allowed prayer of the nun, who was allegedly raped during the communal violence in Kandhmal in August last, to hold the Test Identification (TI) parade in the Chowdwar Circle Jail near here.Adjudicating the petition of the nun prayi ..
The Supreme Court has ruled that in an offence against the society, the criminal charges cannot be dropped against the accused.A bench, comprising Justices S B Sinha and Mukundakam Sharma, while dismissing an appeal of one Rumi Dhar, who along with h ..
New Delhi: Mere re-payment of loan under a settlement scheme cannot exempt the accused who had allegedly cheated the bank from criminal proceedings, the Supreme Court has held.A Bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice H.S. Bedi gave this ruling ..
In an interesting twist to the proceedings of the trial of the 26/11 terrorist attacks on Mumbai, Abbas Kazmi, defence lawyer for the lone surviving Pakistani terrorist Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, today sought the designated court to withdraw him from ..
The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from controversial RJD MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of CPI-M leader Ajit Sarkar, on a plea seeking cancellation of the bail granted to him by ..
BJP Pilibhit Lok Sabha candidate Varun Gandhi today filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking Rs 10 lakh compensation from the Uttar Pradesh government for his illegal detention under NSA.The application was mentioned before a bench comprisin ..
Allahabad High Court asked District Magistrate, DIG and IG to be present in Court on May 18 in the advocate death case in nursing home.After going through the affidavits of officers and case diary of the cases filed against Dr A K Bansal, a bench com ..
The Supreme Court has ruled that a girlfriend or a concubine is not a relative and therefore cannot be prosecuted for an offence under section 498 (A) of the IPC (cruelty for dowry).A bench comprising Justices S P Sinha and R M Lodha, while allowing ..
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday asked the Government of Gujarat to pay a compensation of Rs.262 crore to victims of the riots that followed the burning of the Sabarmati Express in 2002.The High Court order said that sum was allocated for the riot ..
The Supreme Court on Thursday revoked the National Security Act (NSA) invoked against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi for making an alleged 'hate-speech' in Pilibhit.Varun had challenged the imposition of the NSA by the Uttar Pradesh ..