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Hyderabad, Apr 9 (PTI) The Telangana High Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing to April 10 on the anticipatory bail petition filed by Congress leader Pawan Khera in a case filed against him by the Assam government over his allegations against Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's wife. Congress leader and senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, who virtually argued for Khera, alleged political vendetta in the case by the Himanta Biswa Sarma-led government. Assam Advocate General Devajit Saikia, wh ...Read More >
The Centre has urged the Supreme Court to declare its landmark ruling decriminalising adultery in the Joseph Shine v. Union of India as "not good law", raising fundamental questions about how courts interpret morality and exercise judicial review under the Constitution. In written submissions filed in the ongoing Sabarimala case proceedings, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta argued that while the Centre does not contest the striking down of Section 497 of the IPC as violative of Article 14, it str ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that it has the powers to strike down religious practices or superstitions -- even if they are rooted in faith -- if they violate public order, health and morality. A nine-judge Constitutional bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant, hearing a batch of review pleas challenging the Sabarimala judgment, rejected the Centre's submission that a secular court can't decide on superstitions. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said that even if a practice is ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Acknowledging rampant misuse of public interest litigation for ulterior motives or for pursuing pet agendas, SC on Wednesday said it would have dismissed a PIL petition if it had been filed by a lawyers' body presently challenging the Sabarimala custom of barring entry of women of menstruating age.This remark came from a bench of CJI Surya Kant, Justices B V Nagarathna, M M Sundresh, Ahsanuddin Amanullah, Aravind Kumar, A G Masih, P B Varale, R Mahadevan and Joymalya Bagchi when solic ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 8 (PTI) Constitutional morality can never be a ground for judicial review to decide essential religious practices and beliefs in a religion, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Wednesday while stressing that two previous verdicts on decriminalisation of consensual gay sex and adultery provisions based on this doctrine were "not a good law". A nine-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant was told by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that constitutional morality i ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that landmark rulings decriminalising adultery and same-sex consensual relationships were based on a "subjective" interpretation of constitutional morality and should be considered "not a good law."The submissions were made before a nine-judge Constitution bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant during hearings on petitions related to religious freedoms, including the Sabarimala temple issue, news agency PTI reported..Appearing for ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 8 (PTI) The Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that the two landmark judgements on decriminalising adultery and same-sex consensual relationships were based on the subjective application of "constitutional morality" and should be declared as "not a good law". The submission was made during the hearing by a nine-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on the petitions related to discrimination against women at religious places, including the Sa ...Read More >
New Delhi: Disqualified Madhya Pradesh Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti on Tuesday moved the Delhi High Court challenging his conviction and three-year jail sentence in a cheating case involving the forging of bank records to obtain illegal interest payments between 1998 and 2011. Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma issued notice to the prosecution on the appeal by Bharti assailing the trial court verdict in the case and listed it for hearing on April 15. On April 2, the trial court sentenced Bharti, for ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 7 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice on an appeal filed by former Congress MLA Rajender Bharti challenging his conviction and three-year sentence in the Gramin Vikas Bank cheating case, which led to his disqualification from the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma sought a response from the State and listed the matter for April 15. Bharti has also sought a stay on his conviction and moved an application requesting the cour ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 7 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice on an appeal filed by former Congress MLA Rajender Bharti challenging his conviction and three-year sentence in the Gramin Vikas Bank cheating case, which led to his disqualification from the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma sought a response from the State and listed the matter for April 15. Bharti has also sought a stay on his conviction and moved an application requesting the cour ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 7 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice on an appeal filed by former Congress MLA Rajender Bharti challenging his conviction and three-year sentence in the Gramin Vikas Bank cheating case, which led to his disqualification from the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma sought a response from the State and listed the matter for April 15. Bharti has also sought a stay on his conviction and moved an application requesting the cour ...Read More >
Venu Srinivasan quits Bai Hirabai Charitable Trust after eligibility objections, Mehli Mistry seeks probe into alleged irregularities and violations of trustee rule Venu Srinivasan has stepped down from the Bai Hirabai Charitable Trust following objections over his eligibility to serve as a trustee. The trust is one of the smaller entities under the umbrella of Tata Trusts. According to the CNBC-TV18 report the objections were raised by former trustee Mehli Mistry, after which Srinivasan chose ...Read More >
Ahmedabad, April 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Chief and MP Asaduddin Owaisi, on Saturday, rejected allegations that his party acts as a proxy for the BJP and criticised the Congress for failing to effectively counter the ruling party, during his visit to Gujarat. Addressing a press conference in Ahmedabad, Owaisi said: "I am not a B-team of the BJP. I am the original 'M' team -- the team of the marginalised, not just minorities", asserting that AIMIM represe ...Read More >
Ahmedabad, Apr 4 (PTI) All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday said the Uniform Civil Code Bill and the amendment to the Disturbed Areas Act passed recently by the Gujarat assembly are unconstitutional. After a marathon debate of more than seven hours, the Gujarat assembly last week passed the UCC Bill that seeks to put in place a common legal framework to govern marriage, divorce, succession and live-in relationships irrespective of religion. It stipu ...Read More >
Bhopal, Apr 3 (PTI) Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker Narendra Singh Tomar on Friday said that Rajendra Bharti, Congress MLA from Datia, was disqualified in compliance with the Supreme Court's judgement of 2013, and the action was legal. The annulment of Bharti's membership of the assembly triggered a row earlier in the day with the opposition Congress terming the "midnight" move a "blatant violation of the democratic process". Speaking to reporters, Tomar noted that a special court in Delhi sen ...Read More >
Special Judge Dig Vinay Singh of the Rouse Avenue Court convicted Bharti and a former cashier, Raghuvir Prajapati, of criminal conspiracy, cheating, and forgery. The case, which was registered in 2015 in Madhya Pradesh's Datiya, was transferred to Delhi by the Supreme Court in October last year after noting claims that efforts were made to intimidate defence witnesses. In a 95-page judgment, the court said that Bharti and Prajapati, along with other unknown persons, entered into a criminal con ...Read More >
Bhopal: The membership of Congress MLA from Datia, Rajendra Bharti, has been cancelled from the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly following his conviction in a cooperative bank fraud case by a Delhi court. "As a consequence of his (Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti) conviction -- resulting in a three-year term of imprisonment and a monetary fine of Rs 100,000 on April 2, 2026 -- and in compliance with the order of the Supreme Court dated July 10, 2013, Rajendra Bhartiya stands disqualified from th ...Read More >
Bhopal (PTI): Madhya Pradesh Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti has been disqualified from the state legislative assembly following his conviction in a case involving the tampering of bank records to secure illegal interest payments, officials said on Friday. Following deliberations on the issue on Thursday night, the Vidhan Sabha authorities issued a notification annulling Bharti's membership from the Datia assembly seat, they said. Bharti had defeated former MP home minister Narottam Mishra of the ...Read More >
Bhopal, April 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) The membership of Congress MLA from Datia, Rajendra Bharti, has been cancelled from the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly following his conviction in a cooperative bank fraud case by a Delhi court. "As a consequence of his (Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti) conviction -- resulting in a three-year term of imprisonment and a monetary fine of Rs 100,000 on April 2, 2026 -- and in compliance with the order of the Supreme Court dated July 10, 2013, Rajendra Bhartiya st ...Read More >
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], April 3 (ANI): A major financial fraud involving Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) has come to light, with allegations of cheating amounting to nearly Rs 129.55 crore by 1093 individuals across the country over the past few years. Of these, seven such individuals from Madhya Pradesh's Indore district are accused of cheating the company of approximately Rs 5.72 crore, and a case has been registered against them at Kshipra police station in the district. ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI): The Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi on Thursday sentenced Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti and co-accused Raghubir Sharan Prajapati to three years' imprisonment in connection with a Gramin Bank fraud case. Bharti, a sitting MLA from the Datia Assembly constituency in Madhya Pradesh, was also slapped with a fine of Rs 1 lakh, while Prajapati was fined Rs 2.5 lakh. Special Judge (MP-MLA) Dig Vinay Singh pronounced the verdict, convicting both for cheating, forgery, usin ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 2 (ANI): The Rouse Avenue court sentenced Congress MLA Rajender Bharti to 3 years imprisonment and imposed Rs. One lakh fine. Another Convict is also sentenced to 3 years imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 2.5 lakh has been imposed on him. They were convicted by the court in the Gramin Vikas Bank Fraud case. However, the court has granted bail to both convicts to challenge the judgement before Delhi High Court. Bharti is a Congress MLA from Datia, Madhya Pradesh. This ca ...Read More >
Nashik: "A fish is not an animal but an aquatic plant that grows in water." Not only this, but self-styled godman Ashok Kharat allegedly went to the extent of claiming that "when a fish is cut, no blood comes out and it has no bones." By presenting it as a form of 'prasad' rather than non-vegetarian food, he reportedly misled many devotees and persuaded them to consume meat. Following the growing number of complaints against Kharat, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) was formed, and its probe ha ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Holding that "documents do not lie," a Delhi court has convicted Datia's Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti and co-accused Raghuvir Sharan Prajapati in a cheating and forgery case involving a cooperative bank, finding clear evidence of manipulation of fixed deposit (FD) records using correction fluid to alter the tenure of the deposit. Bharti, 67, was sent to jail though the hearing of the quantum of the sentence has been scheduled for Thursday. The Datia MLA has been found guilty under sec ...Read More >
Nashik, April 1: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the activities of self-styled godman Ashok Kharat has intensified its crackdown, detaining his son for questioning and launching a manhunt for his wife, Kalpana Kharat, who remains at large. According to news agency PTI, these developments follow the registration of an 11th FIR against Kharat, involving a high-value land fraud case in Shirdi. The accused, a former Merchant Navy officer popularly known as "Captain", is already in custo ...Read More >
Mumbai, Dec 17 (PTI) Maharashtra Sports Minister Manikrao Kokate "dishonestly induced" the state government to allot him a flat meant for the economically weaker section of society, a Nashik court has held, upholding his two-year jail term in a 1995 cheating and forgery case. The court noted that the minister was a "prosperous" farmer. However, the court granted him partial relief by setting aside the lower court's order to cancel the flat allotments, citing lack of jurisdiction for a criminal ...Read More >
PUNE: A day after being sent to judicial custody, the Pimpri-Chinchwad police on Tuesday arrested prime accused Sheetal Tejwani Suryavanshi in connection with the alleged ₹21 crore stamp duty waiver and land registration fraud. She was produced before the judicial magistrate first class (JMFC), which remanded her to eight days' police custody, although the police had sought a 10-day remand. In its remand application, the police told the court that their probe revealed deliberate manipulation of ...Read More >
Mumbai, December 16: A 15-year marriage in Amritsar has reportedly fractured after a husband, Ravi Gulati, tracked his wife to a hotel using a GPS device installed on her scooter, claiming to have caught her with another man. This is the second such incident alleged by the husband. The couple, married on April 25, 2010, have young children. The husband stated that he had recently installed a GPS tracker due to growing suspicion over the past year. Ravi Gulati reported that his wife, Himani, lef ...Read More >
Senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan and his son Abdullah Azam have been convicted and sentenced to jail. A special court in Rampur found them guilty in a 2019 case involving obtaining two PAN cards with different birth dates. The court delivered its verdict after examining evidence and testimonies. Both father and son were sent to jail following the conviction. Rampur (UP): Senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Mohammad Azam Khan and his son Abdullah Azam were on Monday convicted and sentenced ...Read More >
RAMPUR: Less than two months after he was released from Sitapur jail, SP leader Mohammed Azam Khan went back behind bars on Monday when a court convicted and sentenced him to seven years' imprisonment in a 2019 case related to obtaining two PAN cards using different dates of birth. The special MP-MLA court here also sentenced Azam Khan's son Abdullah Azam to seven years' imprisonment in the same case. After the sentencing, Khan was taken from the Rampur court to the district jail under heavy s ...Read More >
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