criminal law

Madras High Court today dismissed Union Minister A Raja’s plea for extension of stay restraining a Tamil magazine from publishing articles relating to him and his family over allegations of irregularities in allocation of spectrum to telecom players. Justice K Chandru imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on Mr Raja and his wife Parameswari to be paid to bi-weekly, Junior Vikat..

 The Supreme Court today fixed for final disposal a petition seeking directions to Narendra Modi government not to make Justice Nanavati Commission report relating to Godhra train carnage public. The February 2002 incident had claimed the lives of 59 kar sevaks who were burnt alive and had sparked of communal riots in Gujarat. A bench of Chief Just..

 The Supreme Court today issued notices to the state of Jammu and Kashmir and its High Court Bar Association on a petition filed by former SP and DSP of Shopian who have been arrested for destroying evidence in the rape and murder case of two girls in Shopian by security personnel. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam, however, stayed the nar..

Pleading guilty of his role in the November 26 terrorist attack on the metropolis last year, the lone captured Pakistani gunman Ajmal Amir Kasab today urged the CBI designated court to prounounce its judgement without any further trial. Coming as highly unexpected, Kasab, who has been pleading innocent from the beginning of the trial, created a flutter just when the proceedings for th..

 Taking cognizance of the forensic report on the hate speech, the Allahabad High Court today issued a notice to Varun Gandhi on an election petition seeking to set aside his election from Pilibhit Lok Sabha constituency. Mr V M Singh, the Congress candidate from Pilibhit had filed the petition seeking to declare the election of BJP leader Varun Gandhi null and void. Th..

 Special POTA (Prevention of Terrorist Act) court Judge M R Puranik is likely to pronounce its verdict on July 27, in twin blast case of August 25, 2003.  This is one of the three cases pertaining to serial blast incidents which rocked the city from December 2, 2002 to August 25, 2003. The investigating agency had clubbed the cases and made three separate cases fo..

The Supreme Court will hear today the petition filed by former Union Law Minister Ram Jeth Malani and others seeking directions to the Union Government to take steps to bring back about Rs 70 lakh crore illegally stashed away in foreign bank by top politicians, bureaucrats and others...

Mumbai, July 20 (IANS) In a dramatic twist in the ongoing 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks trial, Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Amir alias Kasab Monday confessed to his role in carrying out the Mumbai terror attacks which left 180 persons dead and over 300 injured. 'This is a victory of truth and the confession came all of a sudden in the special court,' said special public prosecutor Ujjwa..

The legal profession would be in peril if professionals were implicated in criminal cases for discharging their duty, the Madras High Court said on Thursday. Justice M. Jeyapaul was allowing petitions by M.V. Chandran and E. Kumar, both advocates, who had been charged on the ground that they rendered legal opinion which paved the way for forgery of documents, fabrication of records and ..

 A Sessions Court in Alibaug, Raigad district, on Saturday rejected the plea for grant of bail to Nationalist Congress Party MP Padamsinh Patil. The Osmanabad MP was accused of ordering the killing of Congress leader Pawanraje Nimbalkar in a case of corruption, foul play and political rivalry. Ejaz Khan, prosecutor for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), told Th..

A Delhi High Court has acquitted a man facing Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA) violation charge for illegally possessing foreign currencies, nearly two decades after he was booked. Allowing Prabhat Kumar Srivastava's petition, which challenged the FERA Appell..

The Supreme Court on Friday put a lid on the controversy triggered by the Kerala High Court’s adverse observation on the law and order situation and the police investigations vis-a-vis political murders in the State, saying it was only a general statement. The High Court had in April last year ques..

  A lawyer bailed out two weeks ago after 57 months in jail under trial for swindling a client faced cancellation of the bail. B N Singhvi was granted bail by Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate A K Pandey after having been denied it repeatedly over the last five years by the sessions court, the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court. &l..

The designated court Judge M L Tahilyani said he wanted to complete the 26/11 terror attacks trial by Diwali this year. Judge Tahilyani made this assertion after Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam prayed for a week-long leave. Mr Nikam had requested for the leave after Ganapati festival, to which Judge Tahilyani said, ‘I want to complete the tri..

Goa police on Friday refused to hand over the bodies of two Russian teenagers, killed by unidentified assailants on a beach in November 2007, to Consul General of Russia in Mumbai.  "We cannot hand over the bodies to the Consulate without the consent of their parents. What if the Consulate..