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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL filed by Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind president Maulana Arshad Madani seeking a CBI probe into the alleged involvement of Hindu fundamentalists in the 2006 Nanded blasts and the one in Malegaon this year. Claiming that several innocent Muslim youth were arrested by police, Madani alleged that it reflected a pre-determined mindset of pol..

Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and five other BCCI officials received a reprieve with the Supreme Court staying a Calcutta High Court's directive to initiate criminal proceedings against them for filing "false" affidavits in the Jagmohan Dalmiya expulsion case. A bench of Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam stayed the impugned judgement after upholding the plea of..

New York, Dec. 4: Indian national Jo-seph Palli-purath, who drove all across the US from California to New Jersey to kill his 24-year-old wife, has been brought to Georgia to face trial. Palliparuth, a native of Kerala, who was shackled as he was taken off the plane on Wednesday night, is expected to be arraigned on Friday. Twenty seven-year-old Palliparuth had confronted his wife Reshma James, 24..

A writ petition seeking direction to the Union government to constitute a national investigating agency to combat growing incidents of terrorist violence in the country has been filed in the Supreme Court. The petition filed by advocate Abani Kumar Sahu has submitted that existing investigating agencies like CBI, ATS squads and other intelligence concerns have failed to serve the purpose, and..

New Delhi, Dec 3 (PTI) The Supreme Court has ruled that courts cannot quash a case against an accused involved in sexual offences merely because there was a delay in lodging the FIR. "There are several factors which weigh in the mind of the prosecutrix (victim) and her family members before coming to the police station to lodge a complaint. In a tradition bound society prevalent in India, more..

NEW DELHI: The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has recovered Rs40.62cr as fine from government departments and public sector undertakings while investigating corruption cases up to the month of October from January this year. While the Commission advised major penalty proceedings in 1,103 cases, it also imposed major penalties against 597 officers during the period. The central watchdog, which ..

BCCI president Shashank V Manohar, Secretary N Srinivasan, vice president Chirayu Amin and ex-BCCI secretary Niranjan Rasiklal Shah have moved the Supreme Court against Calcutta High Court order directing their prosecution for indulging in perjury by using forged documents to implicate former BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya. BCCI and ICC vice president Sharad Pawar has already approached the Su..

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI SUBJECT : INDIAN PENAL CODE W.P.(CRL.)591/2008 & Crl. M.A. 5507/2008 Date of Hearing : 01st July, 2008 Date of Decision : 08th July, 2008 MOHD. NIHAL …. Petitioner Through Mr. K. Sunil, Adv. versus STATE ….. Respondent Through Ms.Mukta Gupta, Advocate for the State. Mr.Sanjeev Bhandari, Additional Standing Counsel ..

New Delhi: Harassed by a husband’s ‘ugly’ taunts, if a wife commits suicide within seven years of marriage, the man is sure to be booked under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code for harassing her in the matrimonial home. The reverse has happened. Within a week of marriage, a man committed suicide allegedly hurt by the ‘ugly’ and ‘impotent’ taunts of his wife. And the Supreme Court has let ..

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Special POTA court in Gujarat to transfer within a month cases against 85 accused in the Godhra train carnage to a sessions court in Godhra. The Review Committee had earlier recommended dropping of POTA charges against the accused. The sessions court will now take cognizance of the charges under various provisons of the IPC since the review panel ha..

New Delhi: The Maharashtra Police investigating the Malegaon blast may have got a boost in buttressing its claims that Hindu religious figures organised the bomb attack. The Anti-Terrorism Squad of the Maharashtra Police has found a video which shows Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, self-styled spiritual guru Dayanand Pandey and Sameer Kulkarni, leader of radical Hindu group, together on stage. All ..

Chennai: The discharge of health minister M R K Panneerselvam from a disproportionate wealth case has been challenged in the Madras high court. When a petition filed by the Cuddalore-based P Ravindran seeking to condone a delay of 310 days in filing the appeal came up for hearing on Thursday, Justice K Mohan Ram ordered notices to the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) and th..

New Delhi: Irked that a woman levelled false rape allegations against her husband as a pressure tactic to force the couple’s parents to accept the marriage, Delhi HC has slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 on her. Quashing an FIR lodged by her in September which alleged she was raped by her husband, Justice Aruna Suresh asked Kavita (name changed) to cough up the amount and deposit it with Delhi Lega..

Chennai: Seeking to free the city police from political shackles, the Madras high court made it clear that there should not be interference from any political quarter in the probe into the November 12 campus clash at the Dr Ambedkar Government Law College. The first bench comprising chief justice A K Ganguly and justice F M Ibrahim Kalifulla, passing interim orders on a batch of public intere..

Chennai: The city police on Tuesday arrested four key persons said to be behind the clashes that occurred at the Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law College and hostel in the city on November 12. In another development, four law students surrendered at magistrate courts in Villupuram, Coimbatore and Egmore in connection with the November 12 incidents. Deputy commissioner of police, Flower Bazaar, Pr..