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LB Nagar court judge Vaidya Vara Prasad who was booked by the Anti- Corruption Bureau (ACB) in a disproportionate case was arrested at 4.30 am on Thursday. The accused has been remanded and sent to Chanchalguda jail. The accused is the XIV additional district judge and president of the TS Judges Association. The High Court, Read More…
A criminal defamation complaint has been filed against Congress leader Shashi Tharoor before a court in Delhi for his alleged “scorpion” remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Earlier Former Congress Minister Shashi Tharoor had stoked a fresh controversy on Sunday while speaking at the Bangalore Literature Festival, claiming that an unnamed RSS leader had told Read More…
Judge Vinod Padalkar, presiding over the special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court, framed charges against all the seven accused under sections of the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and the Indian Penal Code (IPC). After framing of the charges, the court posted the case on November 2 for the trial to commence. The framing Read More…
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday, 23 October, suspended DSP Devender Kumar, who was arrested a day earlier, in connection with an alleged bribery case. Kumar, accused of falsifying witness statement, has been sent to CBI custody for seven days remand by the Delhi HC. The Delhi High Court refused to stay investigation Read More…
Former MP’s son Ashish Pandey sent to 14 day judicial custody for brandishing pistol Ashish Pandey, accused of brandishing gun at guests outside a hotel, being brought out of the Patiala House Courts in New Delhi, Thursday, Oct 18, 2018. Delhi court on Monday sent son of former BSP MP Ashish Pandey, who was arrested for Read More…
President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday accepted MJ Akbar’s resignation as Minister of State in External Affairs a day ahead of the hearing of his criminal defamation case against journalist Priya Ramani at Delhi’s Patiala House court. Kovind accepted the resignation of Akbar from the Union Council of Ministers with immediate effect. Akbar, who was Read More…
In a dramatic development that could upset BJP Minister Akbar’s strategy more than a dozen women journalists fused as a force and have urged the court to hear their testimonies against MJ Akbar, claiming many of them suffered sexual harassment by the minister and others have been a witness to it. A group of current Read More…
Additional Sessions Judge Krishan Kant’s wife Ritu (45) and son Dhruv (18) had gone for shopping in the Arcadia market on Saturday when they were shot at by their personal security guard Mahipal. They were admitted to a hospital in critical condition. Regional Medical Officer, Gurgaon Civil Hospital, Pawan Choudhary confirmed the death of Ritu Read More…
Rampal Singh Jatin , the self-styled godman who heads the Satlok Ashram in Haryana, was found guilty of murder in two separate cases today. Rampal was convicted on the charges of murder in a 2006 case relating the death of a woman supporter. Rampal was also convicted on the charges of murder in a 2014 Read More…
Initial report suggests that the action follows a complaint that he had published stories allegedly linking the office of the Governor with lecturer Nirmala Devi R.R. Gopal, editor and publisher of Tamil biweekly Nakkheeran, was arrested by police at the Chennai airport on Tuesday morning on the charge of publishing defamatory content against Tamil Nadu Read More…
A Bangladeshi national who worked as a temple priest at the famous Mahalakshmi Temple at Dahanu, located off the Mumbai Ahmedabad NH 8, was convicted by the Dahanu court and sentenced to 2 years Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) for staying in India without passport and any other documents . The Additional Sessions Judge JR Mulani also Read More…
Hyderabad court on Monday awarded death sentence to two men convicted in the Hyderabad twin blasts case of August 2007 which killed 44 people and injured over 50 others. On September 4, the judge convicted the first two accused and kept in abeyance the verdict on the third accused. “The convicted can appeal in the Read More…