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Hyderabad, April 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) Police have advised all media houses, digital platforms, and individuals to refrain from publishing or circulating any content that may disclose or lead to the identification of a trainee pilot who alleged sexual assault by a former flight instructor at a pilot training institute in Hyderabad. C.H. Sridhar, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Malkajgiri Zone, Malkajgiri Police Commissionerate, said on Thursday that it has come to their notice through the victim an ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar, Apr 9 (UNI) Odisha Vigilance has uncovered a major financial fraud at the Kodla Community Health Centre (CHC) in Ganjam district, involving the misappropriation of government funds exceeding Rs.2 crore by five staff members of the centre. The Berhampur Vigilance Police Station registered a case on Wednesday following allegations that employees of Kodla CHC falsified records to draw unauthorized arrear salary bills between 2023 and 2025. On Thursday, Vigilance officials arrested Ja ...Read More >
In a significant breakthrough against corruption in the health sector, the Odisha Vigilance Department has arrested five staff members of the Community Health Centre (CHC) Kodala in Ganjam district for allegedly misappropriating government funds exceeding Rs 2 crore through fraudulent arrear salary bills. The Berhampur Vigilance Police Station registered Case No. 04 on Wednesday following complaints that hospital employees had prepared fake salary arrear bills in the names of various staff betw ...Read More >
"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 >
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 >
Mumbai, April 8: The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) in Mumbai has awarded compensation of Rs 23.98 lakh to a 39-year-old Kandivali resident, Gangadhar Shelke, who sustained serious injuries in a road accident in 2015, holding the car driver negligent. Tribunal order and compensation The MACT, presided over by Member Gauri Kawdikar, while deciding the claim petition, directed the car owner and insurer, Royal Sundaram Alliance Insurance Co Ltd, to jointly and severally pay the compensatio ...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 >
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (8th April) termed certain posts made by propagandist and journalist Rana Ayyub on X relating to Hindu deities and freedom fighter V D Savarkar, as "highly derogatory, inflammatory and communal". A Bench of Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav made the remarks while hearing a plea filed by advocate Amita Sachdeva before the High Court. The High Court issued notices to Rana Ayyub, the Delhi Police and X, seeking their responses and directed the Delhi Police and X t ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 8 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday termed certain tweets by journalist Rana Ayyub "highly derogatory, inflammatory and communal" as it sought her stand on a petition seeking removal of the allegedly objectionable content from social media. Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav, who was hearing a lawyer's petition alleging that Ayyub's tweets insulted Hindu Deities and "revered historical figures", observed that even an FIR was also directed to be registered against her in rela ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 8 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed the plea moved by Christian Michel James, challenging Article 17 of the UAE-India Extradition treaty. He is an accused in the Augusta Westland Chopper deal corruption and money laundering case. Division bench of justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja dismissed the plea and said, "We find no merit in the petition." The detailed order of judgement is to be uploaded by the High Court. Also Read | EC Gives 'Ultimatum' ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 8 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed the plea moved by Christian Michel James, challenging Article 17 of the UAE-India Extradition treaty. He is an accused in the Augusta Westland Chopper deal corruption and money laundering case. Division bench of justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja dismissed the plea and said, "We find no merit in the petition." The detailed order of judgement is to be uploaded by the High Court. Michel had claimed that the inve ...Read More >
Cuttack: Police in Odisha's Cuttack district have arrested two retired police personnel and four home guards, nearly a decade after an alleged custodial death of 44-year-old resident of Malisahi village under Narasinghpur police limits. Those arrested have been identified as retired assistant sub-inspector Bhagan Sahoo, retired havildar Pramod Kumar Patra, and home guards Joginath Nayak, Bhikari Nayak and Maheswar Debata, and Dharmaraj Rana. Debata and Rana are still in service. They were produ ...Read More >
: The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached assets worth ₹944 crore held by Piyush Colonisers Limited, its former promoters and associated entities, in connection with the an alleged cheating case. The properties include land parcels, flats, and commercial space located in Haryana's Faridabad, Palwal, Rewari and Bhiwadi. The agency has also filed a prosecution complaint against Amit Goel, former promoter of Piyush Colonisers Limited, and others. ED searches premises linked to Piy ...Read More >
The Allahabad High Court has refused to dismiss a fraud case involving false promises of a PhD degree and a university job, underscoring the need for thorough investigation and ethical practices in academia. Key PointsAllahabad High Court refuses to quash FIR against woman accused of PhD and job fraud.Accused allegedly defrauded aspirant of over Rs 22 lakh with promises of a PhD and assistant professor position.Court highlights a 'chilling trend' where people believe jobs can be secured through ...Read More >
Highlighting the discrepancy, the applicant said the Municipal Corporation of Delhi provided a reply about another property altogether, despite repeated representations pointing out that the information sought related to a specific address where alleged misuse of a basement, including possible commercial use, was under question. Coming down heavily on the officials, the CIC observed that the RTI plea "remained unattended within the stipulated time frame, in clear violation of the provisions of ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Referring to the apex court's various judgments defining "obscene" as something which has the potential to appeal to the prurient interest of a person, Supreme Court has said that the mere use of bastard "without a sexual or prurient element" does not constitute an offence of obscenity under IPC Section 294."...in our view, mere use of the word 'bastard', by itself, is not sufficient to arouse prurient interest of a person. More so when such words are commonly used in the modern era d ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Referring to the apex court's various judgments defining "obscene" as something which has the potential to appeal to the prurient interest of a person, Supreme Court has said that the mere use of bastard "without a sexual or prurient element" does not constitute an offence of obscenity under IPC Section 294."...in our view, mere use of the word 'bastard', by itself, is not sufficient to arouse prurient interest of a person. More so when such words are commonly used in the modern era d ...Read More >
The Bombay High Court has ordered a murder trial for eight police officers in the 2014 custodial death of Agnello Valdaris, citing evidence of torture and inconsistencies in the police's account of events. Photograph: ANI on XKey PointsBombay High Court upholds murder charges against eight police personnel in the 2014 custodial death of Agnello Valdaris.The court cited inconsistencies in police records, including missing CCTV footage and failure to follow medical advice, as reasons for upholdin ...Read More >
Mumbai, April 8: The Bombay High Court has upheld a trial court's decision to frame murder charges against eight police personnel in the alleged custodial death of Agnello Valdaris in 2014, observing that the circumstances surrounding his death warranted a full trial. The court also remarked that there is a "serious controversy" over whether Agnello's death was homicidal or accidental. Court dismisses petitions by accused officers A bench of Justices Ajey Gadkari and Shyam Chadak, in an order ...Read More >
Amit Jogi was acquitted by the trial court in 2007. The high court order comes a month after the bench reopened the case following directions of the Supreme Court, which decided to condone the delay by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in filing an appeal. "We are of the considered opinion that the judgment passed by the learned trial judge acquitting the accused Amit Jogi is palpably illegal, wrong, perverse, contrary to the evidence available on record and without any concrete basis," ...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: A Delhi court has convicted a man for forging an official letter purportedly issued by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking a BJP ticket for himself in the 2019 Uttar Pradesh Assembly by-elections. In a detailed judgment delivered on March 30, the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Jyoti Maheshwari at Rouse Avenue Court held accused Shivaji Yadav guilty of offences of forgery and using a forged document as genuine under Secti ...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 >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday granted two more weeks to Delhi Police to file its response on the bail pleas of Tasleem Ahmed and Abdul Khalid Saifi, accused in the February 2020 riots-related "larger conspiracy" case. A bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and P B Varale gave time after counsel for Delhi Police sought more time. Also Read: Delhi HC says nothing left in 2020 plea on disclosure leak after 5 years The top court on February 11 had issued notice on a plea filed by Ahmed and Sa ...Read More >
Raipur: The Chhattisgarh High Court has sentenced Amit Jogi, son of former chief minister Ajit Jogi, to life imprisonment for the 2003 murder of NCP leader Ramavatar Jaggi, observing that he was the "mastermind" and "driving force" behind the conspiracy. A division bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma, in its April 2 order, set aside a trial court's 2007 judgment acquitting Amit Jogi, holding it as "palpably illegal, wrong, perverse and contrary to the evidence on ...Read More >
Raipur, Apr 6 (PTI) The Chhattisgarh High Court has sentenced Amit Jogi, son of former chief minister Ajit Jogi, to life imprisonment for the 2003 murder of NCP leader Ramavatar Jaggi, observing that he was the "mastermind" and "driving force" behind the conspiracy. A division bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma, in its April 2 order, set aside a trial court's 2007 judgment acquitting Amit Jogi, holding it as "palpably illegal, wrong, perverse and contrary to the ...Read More >
Raipur, Apr 2 (PTI) The Chhattisgarh High Court has sentenced Amit Jogi, son of former chief minister Ajit Jogi, to life imprisonment for the 2003 murder of NCP leader Ramavatar Jaggi. The order is of April 2 when a division bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma had set aside Amit Jogi's acquittal by a trial court in 2007. The order copy was uploaded on the HC's website on Monday. "We are of the considered opinion that the judgment passed by the learned trial judge ...Read More >
Raipur, April 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a landmark verdict that has sent ripples across Chhattisgarh's political landscape, the High Court has sentenced former MLA Amit Jogi, son of the state's first Chief Minister, late Ajit Jogi, to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 in the sensational 2003 murder case of senior NCP leader Ram Avatar Jaggi. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma pronounced the sentence after hearing the CBI's appeal, a ...Read More >
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