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All efforts to release Uttar Pradesh Congress president Rita Bahuguna Joshi, presently under judicial custody for 14 days, went in vain when the Additional District Judge(ADJ) postponed the hearing in the case for tomorrow. Ms Joshi will have to spend at least this night in the women ward of the Moradabad district jail. ADJ Sudha Sharma posted the heari..

Gauhati High Court has taken up the election petition filed by former BJP Lok Sabha MP from Arunachal Pradesh Kiren Rijiju, seeking justice in the April 16 electoral process under the Election Commission (EC). The court yesterday took up the petition for hearing under designated election judge Justice Iqbal Ansari who, taking cognizance of it, admitted the case and fixed th..

First Class Sanjay Kumar Judicial Magistrate has issued directions to Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail Superintendent to produce jail manual on the complaint of the activist Abhinav Bharat and Malegaon-blast accused Samir Kulkarni, who also stands accused in an incident of church fire in this cantonment town. While recording his statement and other witnesses in the church fi..

The existing methods of handling municipal solid waste at Perungudi, on the city’s outskirts, were not scientific and violate several provisions of municipal rules, an Expert Committee(EC) has said in its report to the Madras High Court. While passing orders in the matter relating to prevention of burning of garbage at Pallikaranai marsh during the last hearing, the c..

 In an effort to save municipal commissioner Jairaj Phatak from the fury of the Bombay high court, the civic administration on Wednesday re-submitted to the standing committee the proposal for the partial closure of the Deonar dumping ground.  According to the proposal, the dump will be fu..

 Elections to the Maharashtra Medical Council, the watchdog body of the medical profession, that were held after a gap of 10 years have come under the scanner of the Bombay high court. Incidentally, the high court had dissolved the last elections held in 1999 because of electoral malpractice.  ..

  Struck by the worst-ever hooch tragedy in Gujarat, which has killed over 150 in the last one week, the state government decided on Wednesday to frame a new law with provisions of death sentence and life imprisonment. Approved by the cabinet, the amendment to the Bombay Prohibition Act, 1949 will be introduce..

Jharkhand High Court rejected the petition of former Chief Minister and MP Madhu Koda and two others regarding removing their names from the cases filed against them for amassing properties disproportionate to their known source of income. The division bench comprising Chief Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra and Justice D K Sinha rejected the petition of businessmen Vinod Sinha and..

Certain changes in the procedure for appointment of notaries have been made in the Notaries Rules, 1956 by the Notaries (Amendment) Rules, 2009 w.e.f. 01.03.2009. As per the new procedure, applicants are also required to appear before the interview board, which ..

The Supreme Court reserved its verdict on a petition challenging the Delhi High Court judgment of staying the ongoing constructions on the Yamuna river bed for the 2010 Commonwealth games.  A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrisnan, Justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan reserved the judgment after hearing all the parties, including the Union government, DDA and ..

 The Madras High Court will pass orders on July 21 on the anticipatory bail plea by a doctor and his son in the CBI case relating to alleged manipulation of an answer sheet in the MBBS examination of Pondicherry University. Justice M Jeyapaul fixed the date for orders after hearing B Kumar, Senior Counsel, appearing for the petitioners, Krishnamurthy and his son, Kirub..

Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court ordered a CBI probe into missing documents of Ayodhya’s disputed structure and directed the agency to complete its investigation within two months.  Uttar Pradesh government had already recommended the CBI probe after registering an FIR in connection with 23 missing files related to the Babri Masjid dispute. br..

 The Madras High Court Bench in Madurai has held that the armed forces personnel accused of committing murder, rape and other such crimes could be tried in a criminal court and not necessarily through court martial. The court's observation came while dismissing a revision petition filed by a Lance Havildar accused of killing..

In the wake of the hooch tragedy claiming 127 lives, the Gujarat government introduced a Bill aimed at amending the existing prohibition law in the Assembly session on Wednesday. The new provisions incorporated in the amendment Bill also include death penalty to criminals. “The present government has ..

Justice R.N. Prasad (Retd.), former Chairman of National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) passed away on June18, 2009. The Commission in its meeting condoled his death and remembered his contributions to the Commission and for the upliftment of the Backward Classes. Justice Prasad was on the Patna High Court Bench from 1987 to 1991. He was the Chairman of Bihar State ..