criminal law

New Delhi, Jun 22 (UNI) The Ghaziabad Bar Association has filed a petition in the Supreme Court demanding a CBI inquiry into the Rs seven crore General Provident Fund (GPF) scandal, which allegedly took place in the Ghaziabad district court treasury. According to the petitioners, the scandal is not of Rs seven crore but the total money illegally siphoned off during last seven yea..

Following complaints about the misuse of dowry laws by women, the Centre has decided to look into the issue and will hold a consultation programme to get views and suggestions from NGOs and activists working for men. Acting on complaints about the misuse of dowry laws, the Union Ministry for Women and Child Development would organise a consultation programme where men from different w..

In all 36 sugar barons in Maharashtra might face criminal proceedings if dues worth Rs 700 crore calculated as per the statutory minimum price (SMP) are not paid to sugarcane growers before June 30. The state sugar commissioner's office has issued directives to file criminal cases and if necessary, attach properties of the directors of these 36 cooperative sugar factories, if the dues are not c..

Chennai, Jun 19 One of the convicts in the multi-crore fake stamp paper scam today moved the Madras High Court seeking to reduce the sentence awarded by the CBI Special Court in the case. The appeal petition was filed by C S Balaji, who was handed down seven years Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) in the fake stamp paper scam case, involving the kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi. Balaji was lodged in..

The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the anticipatory bail application of Delhi Police head constable Vijay Bahadur, accused of extorting nearly Rs 20 lakh and letting off an aide of the alleged kidney racket kingpin Amit Kumar. A vacation bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and G S Singhvi rejected the head constable's plea that the police were forced to register cases against him and ..

The CBI has opposed the bail application of Dr Rajesh Talwar, prime accused in the Noida double murder case, stating that another polygraph test needs to be conducted on him. Filing an application before the designated court of Sapna Mishra at Ghaziabad, CBI pleaded for Talwar's continuance in judicial custody contending that another polygraph test was required. The counsel for Talwar, h..

Parthasarathy Sudarshan, the Indian-American CEO of Cirrus Electronics, was sentenced to 35 months in jail on Monday for illegally exporting electronic components to Indian government entities responsible for developing ballistic missiles, space launch vehicles and fighter jets. The US Justice Department said that a court in Washington declared the sentence after Parthasarathy pleaded guilty ..

Mumbai, Jun 15 (UNI) The trial against Maulana Gulam Yahya, the Imam of the Haj House mosque at Crawford market in South Mumbai and one of the dismissed employees of Haj Committee of India, will commence tomorrow for his alleged involvement in harbouring three suspected Kashmiri militants before the 7/11 serial train bomb blasts in 2006. The charges against him were framed recently befor..

The Uttar Pradesh government today ordered first information reports (FIRs) to be lodged against all the 16 sugar mills that Bajaj Hindusthan owns in the state for allegedly failing to honour farmers' payment commitments for the crushing season 2007-08. Shishir Bajaj-controlled Bajaj Hindusthan is the country's largest sugar producer. A delegation of UP farmers had recently blockaded one of its..

IN view of the large-scale arrests made by Bangladesh Police in recent times, it would be worthwhile to recollect that various constitutional rights in the nature of human rights of individual suspects come under the direct handling of police in all stages of crime investigation -- from arrest to imprisonment. In a country like Bangladesh, where stricter penal laws have to be enacted to curb the t..

An arrest warrant was issued against MNS Chief Raj Thackeray by a local court in Jamshedpur on Friday after he failed to appear before it in connection with a case of allegedly making provocative statements against members of a particular community. The court of Judicial Magistrate Anil Kumar on Thursday issued the warrant against Thackeray after he failed to appear before the court in con..

State, Centre to file counter to Nalini’s writ plea CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Thursday granted time till June 18 to the Tamil Nadu and the Central governments to file their counter to the writ petition by S. Nalini, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, seeking premature release.When the writ petition and the petition by Janata Party president Subra..

In a new twist in the Arushi murder case, Dr. Rajesh Talwar's compounder has revealed that the dentist is innocent. Krishna has reportedly claimed that a third person is involved in the murder. Krishna, who was subjected to narco analysis test by the CBI on Thursday, told cops that Aarushi was a 'good girl' and it is wrong to tarnish her character after her death. However, the investigatin..

The CBI today conducted a lie detector test on Vijay Bhardawaj, who allegedly gunned down controversial Assistant Commissioner of Delhi Police Rajbir Singh. Bhardawaj, who is at present in judicial custody, has been brought to the capital from Ambala in Haryana, and subjected to the test. The CBI questionnaire for the lie detector test includes the overseas calls received by him before and a..

The Delhi Police have caught hold of a placement agency owner wanted in over 10 cases of rape and molestation registered against him in Malviya Nagar. Police said that the accused, Rohit Gupta, was running Vaishnav Placement agency from Lado Sarai along with his accomplice Shyam Lal. The police had registered 13 cases of rape, molestation and harassment against the accused after the interventio..