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Bengaluru: A physics lecturer from a private college in Dakshina Kannada and two of his friends have been arrested by Bengaluru police for allegedly blackmailing and raping a student.When the mental torture by the trio became intolerable, the girl narrated to her parents how she was being exploited. Subsequently, she went to Marathahalli police station along with her parents on July 5 and lodged a complaint seeking action against the perpetrators. Acting swiftly, the cops arrested the trio the f ...Read More >
Nagpur: The Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court observed that Hindu marriages, regarded as spiritual unions, are increasingly under threat from trivial disputes and prolonged litigation. While quashing a dowry harassment case filed in December 2023 against a Nagpur man and his family, the court noted such discord often causes irreversible damage to families and must be resolved with dignity, where reconciliation is not possible.The division bench of Justices Nitin Sambre and Mahendra Nerlikar pass ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jul 15 (PTI) Edible oil refiners are expected to witness a 2-3 per cent year-on-year decline in revenue to Rs 2.6 lakh crore in FY26 due to lower realisations, a report said on Tuesday. However, volumes are likely to grow 2.8-3.0 per cent year-on-year, Crisil Ratings said in the report. As a result, operating margin is expected to shrink 30-50 basis points to 3.3-3.5 per cent. But stable working capital requirements and lower capital expenditure (capex) will keep credit profiles stable ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 15 (PTI) The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday unanimously decided to refer a bill proposing punishment up to life imprisonment for sacrilege acts against religious scriptures to a select committee of the House to seek public opinion on the proposed legislation. On the concluding day of the special session of the assembly, Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan said the panel will submit its report on the bill within six months after taking public opinion. The move came after Chief Minister Bh ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 15 (PTI) The Indian economy is expected to grow at 6.5 per cent in the current financial year, despite geo-political tensions and trade policy uncertainties, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) Chairman S Mahendra Dev said on Tuesday. In an interview with PTI, Dev further said that domestic growth will be driven by low inflation, resulting from good monsoon and benign interest rate regime, triggered by three back-to-back rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of India ...Read More >
Pune, Jul 15 (PTI) The Juvenile Justice Board on Tuesday rejected the Pune police's plea seeking that a 17-year-old boy accused of driving a Porsche car in an inebriated state and mowing down two persons last year be treated as an adult for the trial in the case. The incident, which hit national headlines, took place in Kalyani Nagar area here on May 19 last year, resulting in the deaths of motorcycle-borne IT professionals Anish Awadhiya and his friend Ashwini Costa. The Pune police last year ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 15 (PTI) A bill proposing punishment up to life imprisonment for sacrilege was on Tuesday sent to a select committee of the Punjab Assembly for it to seek public opinion on the proposed legislation. On the concluding day of the special session of the Assembly, Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan said the panel will submit its report on the bill within six months. The move came after Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann proposed the Punjab Prevention of Offences Against Holy Scripture(s) Bill ...Read More >
Lucknow: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi will appear in Lucknow's MP-MLA special magistrate court Tuesday in a case involving allegedly defamatory statements against the Indian Army made by him during his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Lucknow. On Feb 1, the special court had summoned him as an accused, taking cognizance of a complaint filed in the defamation case.Rahul's advocate Pranshu Agarwal said after his appearance, bail will be sought from the court. The case was filed by retired BRO director Udai Shanke ...Read More >
Patna, July 14 (UNI) In a major step towards igniting the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship across the state, Bihar Industries Minister Nitish Mishra launched the official Bihar Idea Festival Portal here today. Speaking at the event Mishra said Bihar Idea festival was not just an event but a revolution to make 'Samriddh Bihar'. He said that it will encourage the youth to take up entrepreneurship to solve the grassroot challenges of Bihar. He said that the youth will be sensitised and i ...Read More >
The Delhi high court has held that while the husband need not beg, borrow or steal to maintain his wife and child, he cannot his responsibility while leading a lavish life. A bench of justices Navin Chawla and Renu Bhatnagar delivered its ruling on July 9, while dealing with a plea filed by a man against a family court's November 2024 order directing him to pay ₹1,00,000 to his wife and ₹2,25,000 to his minor child as monthly maintenance. The family court while computing the maintenance had ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 12 (ANI): Ahead of the Bihar assembly elections, Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president Chirag Paswan received a death threat on social media, his party spokesperson Rajesh Bhatt said on Friday. Bhatt also filed a complaint at the Cyber Police Station in Patna in the matter. As per the written complaint, the death threat was issued by an Instagram user under the name 'Tiger Meraj Idisi'. 'The threat was issued due to Paswan's growing popularity. T ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A protest for voicing a dissenting opinion "is not only the hallmark of democracy but also a fundamental right" guaranteed under the Constitution, a Delhi court on Thursday said.The observation was made by additional chief judicial magistrate Neha Mittal while discharging 10 TMC functionaries, including MPs Derek O'Brien, Sagarika Ghose and Saket Gokhale, in a case registered against them for their protest in April last year outside the ECI, despite prohibitory orders being in place u ...Read More >
A Trinamool delegation had held a demonstration outside the Election Commission office against the alleged misuse of central agencies by the BJP government. A Delhi court on Thursday discharged 10 Trinamool Congress leaders including MPs Derek O'Brien, Sagarika Ghose and Saket Gokhale in a case related to a protest outside the Election Commission's office last year despite prohibitory orders being in place, PTI reported. The order was passed by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Neha Mittal ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 10 (PTI) A Delhi court on Thursday discharged 10 TMC leaders, including Derek O'Brien, Sagarika Ghose and Saket Gokhale, in a case linked to a protest outside the Election Commission of India despite prohibitory orders being in place last year. Additional chief judicial magistrate Neha Mittal said, "All accused persons are discharged under Sections 188 (disobedience of order duly promulgated by public servant), 145 (joining or continuing in unlawful assembly, knowing it has been ...Read More >
New Delhi: In its final bid to oppose the bail petitions of northeast Delhi riot accused, including Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid, Delhi Police on Wednesday alleged that the intention behind the Feb 2020 riots in the national capital was to globally defame the nation through a well-planned and orchestrated criminal conspiracy.Arguing before a special bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur in the conspiracy case related to the riots, solicitor general Tushar Mehta said, "If you are doi ...Read More >
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought the Enforcement Directorate's response on a plea by AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal challenging a sessions court order upholding the summons issued to him in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise policy scam in the capital. Justice Ravinder Dudeja issued notice to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on the petition and asked it to file the counter affidavit within six weeks. At the outset, the ED's counsel raised a preliminary objection over t ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 9 (PTI) Delhi Police on Wednesday argued in the Delhi High Court that the intention behind February 2020 riots in the capital was to globally defame the nation by way of a well-planned and orchestrated criminal conspiracy by the accused persons including Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid. Delhi Police was opposing the bail pleas of the accused persons when it argued before a bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur that it was not a spontaneous riot but a well-organised act ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday gave the Enforcement Directorate six weeks to respond to a plea filed by former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal challenging the summons issued to him by the trial court in connection with the Delhi liquor policy case. Issuing notice, a single-judge Bench of Ravinder Dudeja asked the federal anti-money laundering agency to file its response, including its submissions on the maintainability of pleas filed by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) c ...Read More >
Chandigarh: A panel of legal experts are being consulted for a law under which harsher punishment would be given for acts of "sacrilege" against religious scriptures, Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema said Monday. The government is not in a hurry and will not bring such a law which will require subsequent amendments, the minister said. Asked whether the legislation will be brought in the two-day special session of the Punjab Assembly starting July 10, Cheema said, "A panel of legal e ...Read More >
The Allahabad high court on Monday dismissed a petition seeking registration of a criminal case against Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya over allegations of submitting fake educational degrees while contesting election and for obtaining the dealership of a petrol pump. Rejecting the revision petition filed by one Diwakar Nath Tripathi, a social activist from Prayagraj, Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh observed, "The complainant-revisionist is not a person deceived by Keshav Pr ...Read More >
New Delhi: A quaint walled residential complex in Sector 39A in south Chandigarh is home to top ministers and officials of the Punjab government. Uniformly marked white boards point to numbers of red-brick single storey bungalows in the complex. There is no name plate outside bungalow number 926. When you enquire if it is home to former Delhi chief minister and senior Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia, two guards from the neighbouring home helpfully say, "This is Satyendra Jain's kothi. Siso ...Read More >
LUCKNOW: The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge (Gangster/MP-MLA Court) in Mau district on Saturday dismissed the appeal of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari's son and former MLA Abbas Ansari against his conviction in a 2022 hate speech case. However, the court allowed further hearings on the plea challenging the quantum of the two-year sentence awarded to Ansari. The CJM (MP-MLA) court will hear the plea on July 25. Meanwhile, Abbas Ansari and his co-accused Mansoor were ...Read More >
Chandigarh, July 5 (PTI) The AAP government will bring a law to ensure harsher punishment for acts of sacrilege against religious scriptures in a two-day special session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha starting July 10. "Those who commit sacrilege will no longer escape, a new era of justice is about to begin," Aam Aadmi Party spokesperson Neel Garg said in a post on X on Saturday. The Bhagwant Mann government will convene the special session of the Punjab Assembly on July 10 and 11. AAP leader Bal ...Read More >
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 4 (ANI): Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday came down heavily on the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) over its pitch to reconsider the words 'secular and socialist' from the Preamble of the Indian Constitution while saying that it was 'all talk'. He dared and challenged RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale and top leaders of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the centre to remove the words 'secular and socialist' from the Preamble. 'Da ...Read More >
Srinagar- A local court in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday dismissed a case of Model Code of Conduct (MCC) violation filed against PDP leader and MLA Waheed-Ur-Rehman Parra in connection with a roadshow he held during last year's Lok Sabha elections in Pulwama district. The case, registered under Section 188 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), was dismissed by Additional Special Mobile Magistrate Awantipora, Muneer Ahmad Bhat, who ruled that no cognisance of the offence could be taken due to procedural ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 3 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has named Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Paresh Pal and two city councillors, among 18 accused in its supplementary chargesheet in a case related to the death of BJP leader Avijit Sarkar, a resident of Sitala Tala Lane, Kolkata who was killed in post-poll violence. According to a statement from the agency, the supplementary chargesheet was filed on June 30 before the Learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 2 (PTI) Senior Congress leader and former home minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said the exercise of enactment of the three new criminal laws was a "waste" and has only created confusion in the administration of justice among judges, lawyers and the police. Chidambaram also claimed the new Acts are an overwhelmingly 'cut and paste' exercise, with a few new provisions added. His remarks came a day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah termed the enactment of the three new crimin ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Terming the framing and implementation of the three new criminal laws as the biggest reform in Independent India, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said that they are framed in such a way that all rights of citizens are protected and no criminal goes unpunished. Speaking at a function here to mark the one year of implementation of the three laws - Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA), Shah assert ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday termed the enactment of three new criminal laws as the biggest reform in independent India and said they will make the judicial process process not only affordable and accessible but also simpler, time-bound and transparent. Shah stressed that the Narendra Modi government framed the new laws -- Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA) -- to ensure that al ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) is probing from all angles, including sabotage, in the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad that killed 274 people on board and on the ground last month, Minister of State (MoS) For Civil Aviation Murlidhar Mohol said. Mohol said the black box of the Air India flight AI 171 that has been recovered is in AAIB's custody and will not be outside the country for a thorough assessment. The MoS was speaking at the Pune chapter of the Emerging ...Read More >
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