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The Supreme Court by its Judgment Dated: 4-8-2008 in between Baldev Singh Vs. State of Punjab, opined that the demand made by the husband to his wife to demand her share in the ancestral property will not amount to a dowry demand. ..

The Supreme Court has threatened to issue arrest warrants against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, Union Transport Minister T R Baalu and four others for failing to respond to a contempt notice on the Sethusamudram bandh row. A bench of Justice B N Aggrawal and G S Singhvi, however, granted four weeks time to Karunanidhi, Baalu, state Chief Secretary, DGP and two others to f..

Senior counsel Soli Sorabjee, representing Madhya Pradesh (MP) government, assured the Supreme Court that he will sort out all the problems allegedly being faced by the public prosecutor in Prof H S Sabharwal murder case. Senior counsel Vivek K Tankha appearing for the petitioner, Himanshu Sabharwal, son of late Prof Sabharwal, contended before the court that MP government is guilty of cont..

The Supreme Court on Friday issued contempt notice to state of Madhya Pradesh in Prof H S Sabharwal murder case for creating obstacles in the progress of the trial. A bench headed by Justice Arijit Pasayat issued notices on the petition filed by Himanshu Sabharwal, son of late professor, whose counsel alleged before the Supreme Court that BJP government in the state was creating obsta..

The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Mumbai police not to release passports of two British nationals, who were acquitted in a case of paedophilia recently. The apex court issued notices to Britons – Duncan Grant and Allan Waters -- on an appeal filed by an NGO challenging their acquittal by the Bombay High Court. A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan allowed th..

CBI has filed a charge sheet against sacked Assam Education Minister Ripun Bora, arrested along with two others for allegedly offering a bribe of Rs 17 lakh to an agency official to "negotiate" the outcome of a murder case in which he is a suspect. A CBI spokesman said the charge sheet was filed against Bora, journalist Mukul Pathak and businessman Ramesh Maheswari before the spec..

The Mother of British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling, who was allegedly raped and murdered on Anjuna Beach in Goa on February 18, is likely to depose before the CBI here next week. Ms Fiona Kackeown's counsel Vikram Verma told UNI yesterday evening that she got a visa and was expected to arrive here from London next week to interact with the CBI, which was handling the case following her compla..

The Supreme Court will hear an appeal on August 1 of Mumbai-based NGO Childline against the acquittal of two Britishers by the Bombay High Court in a child abuse case. The Bombay High Court had acquitted Duncan Grant and retired naval officer Allan Waters on July 23 for want of evidence and had reversed the trial court order sentencing them to six years imprisonment, along with a fine of 20,000..

This judgment will make those who have cornered jobs with fake caste certificates to live in constant fear, for the Supreme Court has ruled that whatever be the length of service rendered by them, detection of forgery should lead to dismissal. This legal reality dawned on one Madhulika Guruprasad Dahir, who had produced a fake ST certificate 20 years ago to get a job in Central Bank of India. ..

Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan has withdrawn himself from a bench hearing Ghaziabad GPF fund scandal in which 36 judges are facing allegations of being beneficiaries of the scandal worth about Rs 7 crores. The new bench comprising Justices B N Agarwal, V S Sirpurkar and G S Singhvi will hear the matter on August 1. The main accused in the scandal, Ashutosh Asthana, had named the..

Clogging of magistrates' courts in Delhi by a load of as much as 55 per cent of cases of dishonoured cheques is leading to endemic delays in criminal trials in the country's capital city, a study says. A study published by a Hong Kong-based NGO says Delhi courts take between one to five years to complete cases, including those concerning crimes committed 20 years ago. The study done by a p..

Confession not ultimate evidence for conviction: SC On Friday, the SC acquitted a man sentenced to death by a Gujarat trial court. The sentence was upheld by HC. Both courts had based the conviction on his statement before a magistrate to the effect that he raped and killed a minor girl. A Bench comprising Justices S B Sinha and Markandey Katju felt uncomfortable about the man being convicted..

A Mumbai resident recently filed a case in the consumer court against a bank for negligence and deficiency in service. He alleged that his cheque book was misused and fraudulently Rs 40 lakh was withdrawn from his account when someone forged his signature on the cheque leaves. According to Mumbai consumer activist Jehangir Gai, the bank admitted that it hadn't uploaded the consumer's signature..

The Centre's opposition to amending the criminal law to enable jailing those unauthorisedly occupying govt accommodation, evoked a strong rebuke from the Supreme Court which directed the Union Cabinet to reconsider the matter. "Take it seriously. We know how to deal with the matter. If you can't take a decision we can pass the direction," a three-judge bench of Justices B N Aggrawal, H ..

New Delhi, Jul 22 The Supreme Court today commuted death sentence awarded to Swami Shardanand alias Murli Manohar Mishra by Karnataka High Court to life imprisonment but with a rider that the convict will remain in jail till his death. Shardanand had buried alive Shakereh, wife of a former Indian Ambassasdor to Australia on April 28, 1991. The deceased, who had separated from her husband and..