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New Delhi, Apr 8 (PTI) The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has stayed the execution of bailable warrants issued against actor Salman Khan in a case related to the alleged misleading advertisement linked to a pan masala brand, and directed that the original records of the proceedings be produced before it. A bench comprising NCDRC President Justice AP Sahi and member Bharatkumar Pandey ordered the Rajasthan State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission to summon the complete record ...Read More >
THE ALL India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Friday opposed the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill recently passed by the Gujarat Assembly, describing it as constitutionally flawed, legally untenable, and fundamentally violative of religious freedom and civil liberties. Asserting that it would challenge legislation in the Gujarat High Court, the AIMPLB demanded an immediate halt to the implementation of the UCC in both Uttarakhand and Gujarat, and called for a comprehensive constitutional rev ...Read More >
Prayagraj, The Allahabad High Court has held that a habeas corpus petition cannot be used as a tool to secure the presence of a husband who is allegedly evading warrants in a maintenance case. A bench of Justices Siddharth and Vinai Kumar Dwivedi made the observation while dismissing a petition filed by Sangita Yadav. The court said it is for the concerned family court to initiate appropriate coercive measures to secure the presence of the husband in such cases. The petitioner had approached ...Read More >
Mumbai, April 6: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money laundering case against self-styled godman Ashok Kharat alias 'Captain' and others on April 4, following allegations of large-scale financial irregularities and suspicious property acquisitions across Maharashtra, taking cognisance of multiple First Information Reports (FIRs) filed against them in Nashik and other cities. The development comes after Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis confirmed that the central age ...Read More >
New Delhi: In the middle of a high-risk rescue operation deep inside Iran, a seemingly simple radio message -- "Power be to God" -- sent ripples of concern through the Pentagon, briefly raising fears that a downed American airman may have fallen into enemy hands. The phrase, reportedly transmitted by the stranded U.S. weapons systems officer after his F-15 fighter jet was shot down over Iran, was considered "off-script" and unusual under strict military survival protocols. According to official ...Read More >
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], April 5 (ANI): A woman in Hyderabad has alleged that she was forcibly converted to Islam, raped, and blackmailed by her husband, Nawaz (alias Navadurga), and his family members. Speaking to ANI, she provided an outline of a harrowing experience involving deception, physical violence, financial exploitation, and religious coercion. The victim met the accused, Nawaz, when he approached her to rent a shop. She alleged he falsely claimed to have converted to Hinduism ...Read More >
Thane, Apr 5 (PTI) A family from Maharashtra's Thane district was allegedly swindled of more than Rs 1.66 crore by a man who exploited their fear of "black magic" and promised them divine remedies through elaborate rituals and pilgrimages, police said on Sunday. The Kasarvadavali police district on April 2 registered a first information report (FIR) against Manjunath Shetty, a resident of Andheri in neighbouring Mumbai, based on the family's allegations that they were manipulated into paying th ...Read More >
'Was Tortured, Forced To Eat Beef': Hyderabad Woman Accuses Husband Of Forced Conversion, Rape Hyderabad woman accuses husband Nawaz and in laws of forced religious conversion, rape, financial fraud and violence, alleges police inaction despite repeated complaints A woman in Hyderabad has accused her husband and in-laws of forced religious conversion, sexual assault, and financial exploitation, alleging a pattern of abuse that began with deception. Speaking to news agency ANI, the woman said ...Read More >
Hubballi (Karnataka), April 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Karnataka Police are proceeding cautiously in connection with an alleged "love jihad" case reported from Hubballi, following the emergence of sensitive and serious allegations from both sides. Three cases have been registered by the families involved. Speaking to the media on Saturday, Hubballi-Dharwad Police Commissioner N. Shashikumar said that the young woman has made allegations of rape against the accused man. "Three cases have been regis ...Read More >
Ahmedabad: 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 stipulates a seve ...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 >
Pune/Nashik: A Nashik court on Thursday remanded self-styled godman Ashok Kharat to a week's police custody in a second sexual abuse case, alleging forced termination of pregnancy and sustained coercion. The Special Investigation Team (SIT), which arrested Kharat from Nashik Central Jail on Wednesday evening in another case, told the court that custodial interrogation was crucial to probe the abortion angle, source of pills and alleged threats to the survivor. The court of chief judicial magist ...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 >
Jammu, April 1: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said the government will adopt a Rajasthan-style behavioural training model for tourism stakeholders to improve the experience of holidaymakers visiting the Union Territory. In reply to questions by Congress MLA Irfan Hafiz Lone and National Conference (NC) MLA Tanvir Sadiq, the chief minister said that clean tourist destinations are vital to ensuring visitors return. Omar, who also holds the tourism portfolio, said that while harassmen ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Members of Odisha's trans gender and gender-diverse community stage a protest here at Master Canteen Square Tuesday, opposing the pro posed Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amend ment Act, 2026 (Bill No. 79). The demonstrators raised concerns that the amendment could un dermine the rights, dignity, and legal recognition of trans gender individuals across the state and beyond. Activists and community representatives described the bill as a step backwards, warning that seve ...Read More >
Mumbai, March 31: Nicole Daedone, founder and former CEO of OneTaste, has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison after being convicted in a forced labor conspiracy case that shocked the self-help and wellness industry. The sentencing, delivered by Diane Gujarati in Brooklyn, marks the culmination of a high-profile legal battle that revealed disturbing allegations behind the company's "orgasmic meditation" practices. Alongside the prison term, Daedone was ordered to forfeit USD 12 millio ...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. The bench also quashed the FIR registered in March 2013 at the Tarn Taran police s ...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 >
Lalpura, MLA from Khadoor Sahib, was awarded four-year jail by a Tarn Taran court on September 10, 2025, effectively unseating him from the assembly as the sentence awarded was more than two years. Under the existing election law in Section 8(3) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, a person convicted of any offence and sentenced to imprisonment for not less than two years gets disqualified from the date of such conviction and continues to be disqualified for a further period of six yea ...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 >
Mohit Arora, a parent, said the school issued notices to more than 40 students, informing them that their names had been struck off the rolls due to non-payment of the increased fees. "The school has neither released the students' results nor responded to any applications or notices submitted by the parents," Arora alleged. However, school principal Richa Sharma Katyal denied the claims and said that no student had been barred from appearing in examinations, and that the results had been uploa ...Read More >
New Delhi, Mar 30 (PTI) Delhi Parent Association on Monday staged a protest outside the Directorate of Education (DoE), alleging coercive actions by two private schools in east and southwest Delhi to recover "unapproved" hiked fees from parents of children studying in these schools. According to complaints submitted to the education department, the schools allegedly struck off the names of several students from their rolls and withheld report-cum-progress cards of dozens of others for not payin ...Read More >
Delhi Air Pollution: On the issue of air quality, the apex court orally remarked that steps taken so far by authorities to control pollution in Delhi-NCR have been a "total failure." Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up authorities over persistent civic and environmental challenges in the Delhi-NCR region, flagging both traffic congestion at toll plazas and rising air pollution as areas of serious concern. In a significant observation on traffic snarls, the apex court issued a notice to the Na ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Taking a serious note of the severe air pollution levels in Delhi-NCR, the Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a slew of directions and asked the NHAI and the MCD to consider either temporary closing or relocating the nine toll plazas of the civic body at borders of the national capital to ease usual massive traffic congestion. The top court described the pollution crisis as an "annual feature" and called for pragmatic and practical solutions to tackle the menace and modified its own i ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Wednesday permitted Delhi government authorities to take coercive action against old vehicles that do not meet Bharat Stage-IV (BS-IV) emission standards. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi modified the August 12 order of the apex court which had placed a blanket bar on coercive measures against diesel vehicles older than 10 years and petrol vehicles older than 15 years. Allowing the plea of ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (UNI) The Supreme Court on Wednesday modified its August 12 order that had barred coercive action against diesel vehicles older than 10 years and petrol vehicles older than 15 years in the National Capital Region (NCR), clarifying that enforcement action can be taken against such vehicles if they fail to meet BS-IV emission standards. A Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipul Pancholi passed the clarification on a plea by t ...Read More >
An Andheri court has adjourned the hearing in the domestic violence case filed by actress Celina Jaitly against her husband, Peter Haag, until January 27, 2026. The court has granted time for both parties to file necessary documents.An Andheri Court in Mumbai adjourned the hearing for the alleged domestic violence case filed by actress Celina Jaitly against her husband Peter Haag till January 27, 2026. The matter came before the Court of Judicial Magistrate First Class, SC Tadye, in Mumbai, for ...Read More >
Celina Jaitly: Actor Celina Jaitly and her estranged husband, Austrian hotelier Peter Haag, appeared before a metropolitan magistrate's court in Andheri on Friday, where the court directed both sides to submit their income affidavits by January 27. The magistrate also asked Haag to file his response to Jaitly's domestic violence complaint. The directions were issued during the first hearing of the case filed by Jaitly in November under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act. Abuse ...Read More >
Chennai, Dec 15 (PTI) Five people involved in major cyber crimes have been detained under the Goondas Act for their organised role in large-scale cyber fraud and cyber slavery-related offences affecting public order and financial security of citizens, the Cyber Crime Wing headquarters said here on Monday. Of the five cyber offenders detained on December 12, 2025, two of them were "mule account aggregators" from Rajasthan handling the financial gain of the organised cyber crime syndicate and the ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], November 20 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday expressed her concerns over the "structurally unsound" Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise of electoral rolls in the state. In a letter written to the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on November 20, Chief Minister Banerjee claimed that the "critical gaps in training, lack of clarity on mandatory documentation and the near-impossibility of meeting voters in the midst of their ...Read More >
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