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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing the multi-crore Satyam accounting fraud, has given a clean chit to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the firm’s erstwhile statutory auditors. The CBI, in its supplementary chargesheet filed on November 24 at the XIV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, revealed that the auditors S Gopalkrishnan..

CHANDIGARH: The shameful stranglehold of influential people on police, once again, came to fore when an RTI query by The Times of India threw up Twitter    Facebook    Share Email    Print    Save    Comment the fact that Chandigarh cops acted in no time to serve up a no-object..

The detention hearing of David Coleman Headley, arrested by the FBI for plotting attacks in India at the behest of LeT, scheduled for 4th December at a court in Chicago has been indefinitely deferred. "The detention and preliminary hearing for David Coleman Headley that was scheduled for Friday in US District Court in Chicago is cancelled and will not be held (as scheduled). There is no ..

THE latest incident at a jail in Sindh speaks volumes about the way institutions are being managed in the country. The trouble that erupted in the jail, forced the jailers to hold dialogue with the prisoners and as a result of which the two sides arrived at a mutually agreed formula for settlement of the problem.   This is not for the firs..

The special 26/11 trial court has terminated Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab's lawyer Abbas Kazmi, observing t..

 A question mark hangs over the continuation of S.G. Abbas Kazmi as the lawyer for 26/11 terror attack accused Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab after the special court found him guilty of lying on Thursday - the first anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. /span..

In pursuance of provisions of section 46 of the Information Technology Act, 2000, Secretary of the Department of Information Technology of each State and Union Territory have been appointed as Adjudicating Officer to hold an inquiry for civil cyber contraventions. Further, under the provisions of section 48 of the ..

Cautioning media about the ill-effects of unrestrained coverage of terror attacks, Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan..

Three commandos of National Security Guards (NSG) deposed in the 26/11 terror case trial through video conference from New Delhi. Special Public Prosecutor Ujwal Nikam said the statements of the commandos were recorded by designated court Judge M L Tahaliyani in-camera. These commandos were members of NSG teams, wh..

Setting up special courts and making radical changes to existing laws are needed to effectively address the issue of Child Sexual Abuse(CSA), say lawyers and activists. "Often investigation drags on for years, and by then the child is confused whether she was touched on the right or left side first, and similar aspects of investigation," said All India Federation of Women's Lawyers na..

 Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt's son Rahul is a witness in the case relating to terror charge probe against American national David Headley, a top police official said. p style="font-family: Verd..

A local court awarded seven-years imprisonment and a cash penalty of Rs 2.05 lakh to stamp scam convict Abdul Karim Telgi in two cases of cheating. Chief Judicial Magistrate Urmila Varma awarded seven years imprisonment to Telgi in case under section 69B of the Indian Stamp Act, section 20 of the Rajasthan Stamp Ac..

A case of insult to national language Hindi and treason has been registered in a court here against MNS supremo Raj Thackeray. The case, registered under sections 295A, 298, 153A and 121 of Indian Panel Code by lawyer Hamid Raza Khan and others, will be heard on November 16. In the complaint, it is alleged that Raj..

The Income Tax Dept. has told the Jharkhand High Court that a final report of the ongoing vigilance probe into a..

MANU SHARMA CONVICT IN JASIKALAL MURDER CASE WHO IS ON PEROLL ,CAME BACK TO JAILON 10-11-09 DUE TO MISUSE OF PEROLL PERIOD BY ENJOYING IN A BAR & RESTAURANT . HIS MOTHER ALSO SEEN IN PRESS CONFERENCE WHO WAS DECLARED ILL IN GRANTING THE PEROLL TO MANUSHARMA ..