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"We find no merit in the present petition. The same is accordingly dismissed," a bench of justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja said. A detailed copy of the verdict was awaited. James approached the high court against a trial court's August 7, 2025, order denying his request to be released from prison. He challenged Article 17 of the India-UAE extradition treaty, allowing prosecution for "connected offences" as well. Advocate Aljo K Joseph, who represented James, said that he had undergone ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday rejected a plea filed by alleged middleman Christian Michel James in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam case seeking his release from jail. A bench of justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja said that the plea, which also challenged provisions of the India-UAE extradition treaty, had no merit. James, a British national, assailed Article 17 of the treaty, signed in 1999, which allows the requesting state (in this case India) to pros ...Read More >
The Punjab and Haryana high court has quashed the death sentences awarded to two men, including the victim's cousin, in the 2019 rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl in Ludhiana, and ordered a retrial. In March 2023, a fast-track special court under the POCSO Act had awarded capital punishment to the convicts 28-year-old cousin of the victim and a 26-year-old youth. Allegations were that convicts, both residents of Doraha and hailing from district Damriya in Uttar Pradesh, took the victim ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Apr 8 (PTI) The Punjab and Haryana High Court has set aside the death sentences awarded to two men in a 2019 rape and murder case of a seven-and-a-half-year-old girl in Ludhiana's Doraha. The HC also remanded the case back to the trial court, asking it to begin the trial from the stage of recording the statement of the accused and a fresh judgement be passed. "It is not a case where the trial court had put all the incriminating circumstances to the accused," observed the bench of J ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition by alleged middleman Christian Michel James in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam case seeking his release from jail. A bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja said there was no merit in the petition by the British national, who was extradited from Dubai in December 2018. A detailed copy of the verdict is awaited. In his petition, James assailed a provision of the India-UAE extradition treaty. He also ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 8 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition by alleged middleman Christian Michel James in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam case seeking his release from jail. A bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja said there was no merit in the petition by the British national, who was extradited from Dubai in December 2018. A detailed copy of the verdict is awaited. In his petition, James assailed a provision of the India-UAE extradition tr ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 8 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition by alleged middleman Christian Michel James in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam case seeking his release from jail. A bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja said there was no merit in the petition by the British national, who was extradited from Dubai in December 2018. A detailed copy of the verdict is awaited. In his petition, James assailed a provision of the India-UAE extradition tr ...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 >
The Congress on Saturday (April 4, 2026) accused the BJP government in Rajasthan of shielding the accused in the alleged gang rape of a 15-year-old Dalit girl in Ajmer and the subsequent attack on her family, claiming the police failed to act despite the survivor's statement and repeated complaints. Addressing a press conference, AICC Scheduled Castes Department chairman Rajendra Pal Gautam said atrocities against Dalits were rising in BJP-ruled States and claimed that 76% of cases of atrocitie ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: Holding that the case stemmed from a failed consensual relationship rather than criminal intent, Justice N Tukaramji of the Telangana High Court has quashed criminal proceedings against a petitioner accused of cheating a woman on a false promise of marriage. The court allowed a petition filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure by Kalleda Santhosh, seeking quashing of proceedings pending before the Principal Judicial First Class Magistrate, Godavarikhani. The petition ...Read More >
The husband -- Tahir alias Babloo -- had been in jail since December 3, 2025 following the execution of an arrest warrant. Justice Praveen Kumar Giri in an order dated April 2 granted him relief, noting that there is no need to furnish a bail bond or sureties as he is in civil prison. The court directed the registrar (compliance) to communicate this order to the jail authorities for releasing the revisionist immediately. Tahir's wife filed an application seeking recovery of ₹2,64,000 as unpaid ...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 (Madhya Pradesh) [India], April 3 (ANI): A Congress MLA from Madhya Pradesh's Datia, Rajendra Bharti, has been disqualified from the state legislative assembly after his conviction in a fraud case. According to an official notification issued by the state assembly secretariat dated April 2, Bharti, who was elected from the Datia constituency, has been disqualified from the membership of the House with effect from April 2, 2026. Also Read | Jammu Weather Forecast and Update: Rain, Thunde ...Read More >
Prayagraj (UP), Apr 2 (PTI) The Allahabad High Court has observed that a divorce under the Mohammedan Law takes effect from the date a husband pronounces "talaq" and a subsequent court decree confirming it is merely declaratory in nature. In his judgment passed on March 10, Justice Madan Pal Singh clarified that such a court decree does not create a fresh divorce from the date of the judgment, rather, it relates to the original date of the talaq pronouncement. The above observation was made wh ...Read More >
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has defended himself in court, arguing that allegations of 'hate speech' and 'defamation' stemming from his criticism of political ideology are baseless. He contends that his speech constitutes political critique, protected under the freedom of speech, without aiming to incite violence or defame any group. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has described the claims against him as a misuse of the legal process, after a Delhi court dismissed a plea for an ...Read More >
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the CBI to file its response to a petition filed by former union minister and DMK leader A Raja, who challenged an order of a special court for cases against MP/MLAs refusing to direct the agency to submit certain documents in a disproportionate assets (DA) case. Justice AD Jagadish Chandira granted two weeks' time to the central agency to file its reply. The 2015 case pertains to allegations that Raja amassed assets worth Rs 5.53 crore dispr ...Read More >
New Delhi: A Delhi court has imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on a litigant after observing that a poorly drafted complaint, suspected to have been generated using artificial intelligence (AI), resulted in a waste of valuable judicial time. The petitioner, Punam Pandey, had approached the Rouse Avenue Court seeking directions for the registration of an FIR under Section 156(3) of the CrPC. She alleged that Syed Shahnawaz Hussain had issued death threats to her and her family. Delhi Court flags 'AI- ...Read More >
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court has acquitted AAP MLA Manjinder Singh Lalpura and seven others in a 2013 molestation and assault case following a compromise between the two parties. Allowing the petition, the bench of Justice Tribhuvan Dahiya set aside the judgement of a court in Punjab's Tarn Taran, convicting and sentencing the MLA and seven others to four years of imprisonment in last September. Also Read: Calcutta High Court dismisses PIL challenging transfers of IAS, IPS off ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Mar 31 (PTI) The Punjab and Haryana High Court has acquitted AAP MLA Manjinder Singh Lalpura and seven others in a 2013 molestation and assault case following a compromise between the two parties. Allowing the petition, the bench of Justice Tribhuvan Dahiya set aside the judgement of a court in Punjab's Tarn Taran, convicting and sentencing the MLA and seven others to four years of imprisonment in last September. The bench also quashed the FIR registered in March 2013 at the Tarn T ...Read More >
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has moved the Delhi High Court, challenging the acquittal of AAP convener and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by a trial court in January for skipping summons by the agency during the probe into the alleged liquor policy scam. The ED had filed two criminal cases against Kejriwal - in February and March 2024 - under IPC Section 174 (non-attendance in obedience to an order from public servant). Provisions under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (P ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Telangana Hate Speech and Hate Crimes (Prevention) Bill, 2026, tabled in the Assembly, was strongly opposed by the Opposition, including Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM and Communist Party of India (CPI), questioning its need when there are provisions under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) to prevent hate crimes and speech. The Bill was introduced by the Backwards Classes (BC) Welfare Minister Ponnam Prabhakar on Monday, March 29. Contesting, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (A ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], March 12 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued notice on a petition challenging orders that prohibit public meetings and protests within the Delhi University campus. The court has sought responses from Delhi University, Delhi Police, and concerned colleges regarding the restrictions imposed earlier this year. The matter was heard by a division bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay and Justice Tejas Karia. The petition challenges a February 17 order i ...Read More >
Agitated 'displaced' poor people of Vinoba Navodaya Colony, joined by a host of leaders of various mass organisations, staged a dharna at Ambedkar statue in Khammam on Monday demanding justice. Taking up cudgels on behalf of the 'displaced' dwellers, Telangana Jagruthi president Kalvakuntla Kavitha and Dalit Shakthi Programme State president Visharadan Maharaj among others squatted on the main road expressing solidarity with the protesters. Traffic movement on the main road was disrupted for s ...Read More >
Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Dy CM DK Shivakumar on Tuesday threw weight behind AICC leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi after a Delhi court refused to take cognizance in proceedings arising from a fresh FIR in the National Herald case. Both leaders, in separate posts on X, said the court has exposed illegality and mala fide intent of the Modi Government. The ED proceedings against the Gandhis had been held to be without jurisdiction, illegal, and unsustainable in law, Siddaram ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Raghav Chadha on Wednesday asked the government not to levy toll tax if a person has to wait for more than five minutes at the toll plaza, stating that the tax "sometimes takes the shape of a legalised loot". Raghav Chadha also raised issues regarding the toll tax during Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha earlier today. In an interview with ANI, the AAP MP said the toll tax concept requires well-maintained roads and asked whether cit ...Read More >
Mumbai: In a reply submitted before the sessions court, cricketer Prithvi Shaw has strongly opposed the an appeal filed by social media influencer Sapna Gill. Shaw said that Gill's appeal is false, frivolous, vexatious and filed with the sole intention to malign, defame and harass him by misusing his public image and celebrity status.The legal battle originated from an alleged altercation in 2023, which led to cross-complaints. The dispute, which allegedly began as an argument over selfies at a ...Read More >
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday declined to take cognisance of a charge sheet, filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the National Herald case, which names senior Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. The court said that it was impermissible in law to take judicial note of the charge sheet and summon the Gandhis. The court also detailed in its 117-page order that ED's case reflected a unilateral overreach of the other law enforcement agency viz. the Central Bureau of Investi ...Read More >
Mumbai/New Delhi, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Indian cricketer Prithvi Shaw has filed his detailed reply before the Dindoshi Sessions Court in Mumbai, opposing the criminal revision application filed by actress Sapna Gill in the alleged molestation case. Terming Gill's plea as "false and vexatious", Shaw urged the court to dismiss her application, contending that it had been filed with the sole intention of maligning his public image and harassing him by misusing his celebrity status. In their sub ...Read More >
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