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The Madras High Court today stayed the operation of a single judge's order to impose cost on Union IT Minister A Raja and his wife in a civil defamation case. While admitting the petitions filed by Mr and Ms Raja, a division bench comprising Justices K Raviraja Pandian and A Janarthana Raja directed the Junior Vikadan Publications to file their counter within two weeks...

The Delhi High Court today agreed to hear the plea of the father of a suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist, killed in the Batla House encounter September last year, converting his letter to the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court into a PIL. The letter, written to the CJ A P Shah, seeking the initiation of criminal proceedings against Special Cell sleuths involved in the..

 In an important judgment, the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of high-profile criminal lawyer R K Anand for contempt    of court in the BMW hit..

The judicial custody of Sri Ram Sene Chief Pramod Mutalik, who was arrested for allegedly making inflammatory speech at Kyathamaranahalli, a Mysore suburb, in April this year, ends Tuesday. On July 25, the Sessions Court sent him to judicial custody till Tuesday. Mutalik, who had visited Kyathamaranahalli after the communal clashes in April, had allegedly addressed a gathering o..

Rajasthan Home Secretary Kushal Singh informed the Supreme Court that two senior police officers have already been suspended for not being able to arrest a hotelier from Udaipur, whose bail was cancelled by the apex court as he has been convicted for raping a 19-year-old British tourist in December 2007. The victim was subjected to rape when accused Prabhat Singh alias Rana ..

Sayed Mohammad Hanif Abdul Rahim and his wife Fahmida Sayed from the city today became the first couple in the history of Indian Judiciary to be convicted for terrorism under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA). The ‘most notorious couple’ was convicted for executing the 2003 Mumbai twin blasts that killed 54 people and injured hundred others, by a special POTA court. Earlier, ..

Members of the Bellary Bar Association met Governor H.R. Bharadwaj and Union Minister for Law Veerappa Moily here on Sunday and urged them to prevail upon Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court P.D. Dinakaran not to unlink Bellary and Koppal districts from the jurisdiction of the Circuit Bench at Dharwad. The delegation, led by B.V. Basavaraj, president of the Bar association, explained ..

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said the state government would ensure conviction of all the accused through speedy trial in the woman stripping case that occurred in full public view in state capital. Mr Kumar told media persons that the state government would take ..

A director of "Rediff.com" website has moved the Bombay High Court seeking to quash a criminal complaint, alleging that the website, through the search engine linked to it, disseminates obscene material. Sunil N Phatarphekar, a director of Rediff, filed the petition before the High Court challenging the lower court order which issued action against the website and its directors, desp..

Hafiz Mohd Saeed, the chief of the banned JuD accused of involvement in the Mumbai attacks, has claimed that the linking of Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist arrested for the 26/11 strikes, to his group was part of a "conspiracy" against it.  Released from house arrest only last month a..

The Supreme Court directed the police not to arrest till July 29 Rajiv Gupta, a convict in the BMW case who has been sentenced to six month imprisonment by the Delhi High Court on charges of destruction of evidence.  Sanjiv Nanda had run over seven people while driving his BMW in a drunken state. He was sentenced to five year imprisonment by trial court, which was redu..

The Kerala High Court granted one week time to the State Government for submitting details regarding cases of terrorism in the state.  A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice S R Bannurmath and Justice Kurian Joseph passed the order, while hearing a petition filed by social activist Raju Puzhangara in which he sought a direction that all terrorist cases should be tra..

The Chhattisgarh High Court upheld a lower court’s death sentence to four persons for raping and murdering a woman. Justices Dileep Sahebrao Deshmukh and R S Jhanwar upheld the punishment awarded to Ramnaresh, Amar Singh, Vishwanath and Ranjeet Kewat who hail from this district’s Guldandi village where they committed the crime on August 9, 2006 at the victim&rsq..

Delhi High Court today issued notices to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and its contractor Gammon India Limited on a petition filed by some victims of the accident at Metro construction site at Zamrudpur seeking compensation.  Justice Reva Khetrapal issued notice to the respondents on a petition filed by Shramik Referral Centre, an NGO working for affected labourers on b..

The Allahabad High Court today reserved its judgment on the writ petition filed by Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) Rita Bahuguna Joshi seeking quashing of FIR against her and a CBI probe into the arson at her Lucknow residence. A division bench comprising Justices Ravindra Singh and N A Moonis reserved the judgment after hearing counsels for both the arpties. ..