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INDORE: Govind Raghuwanshi, brother of Sonam Raghuvanshi accused of murder of her husband Raja, has returned the jewellery worth around Rs 16 lakh to Raja's family. The ornaments, which included a gold ring, bangles, and a necklace, were gifted to Sonam during her wedding.Before leaving for Shillong, Sonam had left the jewellery at her parental home, taking only her mangalsutra and ring with her - both of which are currently in the custody of Shillong police.Govind handed over the jewellery thro ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Saturday granted arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari time to explore legal remedies against the July 5 order that declared him a fugitive economic offender under the Fugitive Economic Offenders (FEO) Act. Special Judge Sanjay Jindal of the Rouse Avenue Court allowed Bhandari's counsel time until August 2 to file an appeal before the High Court. The court also deferred proceedings on the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) plea seeking confiscation of Bhandari's properties, inclu ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 12 (PTI) AICC general secretary K C Venugopal on Saturday claimed that the central government was not taking any steps to intervene with the execution of Nimisha Priya, a nurse from the state convicted of murder in Yemen. Venugopal contended that it was "sad" that the Centre was not showing any urgency in the matter despite the issue being brought to the attention of the Prime Minister and the External Affairs Ministry. Also Read | Maharashtra Language Row: 'Everyone Sh ...Read More >
Kolkata, July 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Serious confusion has surfaced over the alleged rape of a victim in the Indian Institute of Management- Calcutta (IIM-C) in the boy's hostel as the victim's father said on Saturday that "nothing happened" to her daughter and no "one did anything wrong" with her. Earlier today, a lower court in Kolkata, on Saturday afternoon, remanded Premanand Mahaveer Toppannavar a.k.a. Parmanand Jain (26), the sole accused in the case, to police custody till July 19. His sta ...Read More >
New Delhi: An eyewitness in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case told a court on Friday that she saw former Congress MP Jagdish Tytler instigating the mob to kill Sikhs in north Delhi's Pul Bangash. "Accused Jagdish Tytler addressed the mob standing there to loot and kill the Sikhs, to loot the gurdwara as 'they have killed our mother' ('Sikho ko maro ku**o, unhonae hamari maa ko mara hai'). I myself saw and heard the same from accused Jagdish Tytler," 70-year-old Harpal Kaur Bedi said, deposing before t ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 11 (ANI): The Delhi Police has taken a significant step to curb air pollution in the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi by directing social media and e-commerce platforms to stop the online sale of firecrackers immediately. This move complies with the Government of NCT of Delhi's directions and the Supreme Court of India's order dated May 6, 2025, passed in the matter of "MC Mehta vs. Union of India & Ors." Also Read | Thane Horror: Man Abducts 16-Year-Old Girl F ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jul 11 (PTI) A court here on Friday remanded a man held in the Pune ISIS arms and explosives seizure case in National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody till July 18. The NIA claimed Rizwan Ali was a suspected member of terror outfit ISIS and was part of a larger conspiracy to promote its terror activities. Ali was brought from a Lucknow jail during the day and produced before a special NIA court, after which he was formally placed under arrest by the central agency in the ISIS module ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: A POCSO court here on Thursday sentenced a man to 20 years of imprisonment for raping a 17-year-old girl five years ago, a government lawyer said. Special Public Prosecutor Rajib Sasmal said the judge of the special POCSO court, Saroj Kumar Sahoo, also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on Raja Mallick (21) after convicting him in the rape case. The judge ordered that if Raja failed to pay the fine, he would serve an additional jail term of three months. The judgment was pronounced on the ...Read More >
Thane: A 13-year-old girl's testimony proved crucial in securing a conviction for a 50-year-old who sexually assaulted and harassed her, reports Nishikant Karlikar. Special judge D S Deshmukh of Thane special court convicted and sentenced the accused to the time already served in jail since his 2019 arrest. The accused, a neighbour, allegedly lured the girl into his home while her mother was at work. Special public prosecutor Rekha Hiwrale said the girl, then seven years old, told her mother upo ...Read More >
Mumbai, July 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday presented a Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill, 2024, as per the joint select committee's report. The bill, which was presented in the winter session last year, was referred to the revenue minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule-led joint select committee, which suggested amendments in its report. The revised bill presented by the chief minister aims to prevent certain unlawful activities of left-wing extremist organi ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Delhi HC on Wednesday reserved its verdict on the bail plea of Tasleem Ahmed, an accused in the UAPA case linked to the alleged larger conspiracy behind the 2020 North-East Delhi riots. A division bench of Justice Subramonium Prasad and Justice Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar reserved the order after hearing arguments from Advocate Mehmood Pracha, appearing for Ahmed, and Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) Amit Prasad for the Delhi Police. Pracha, in submissions made over two days, str ...Read More >
Agartala (Tripura) [India], July 10 (ANI): A large-scale state-level mock exercise simulating flood and landslide scenarios was successfully conducted across Tripura with special emphasis on West Tripura District by the District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) under the supervision of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). Vishal Kumar, District Magistrate (DM) of West Tripura, addressed the media following the drill, and highlighted that rescue operations were carried out simu ...Read More >
Kolkata: The women's grievance cell of the detective department on Wednesday focused on reviewing the evidence it had collected since June 26 in the law college gang rape case. This review came a day after the Alipore court sent the main accused, Monojit Mishra (31), co-accused Zaib Ahmed (19) and Pramit Mukherjee (20) and college security guard Pinaki Banerjee (55) to jail till June 22.Sources said that a few key witnesses were examined once more to match their statements with the forensic repo ...Read More >
Ara: The court of the first additional district and sessions judge, Shailendra Kumar Panda, on Wednesday awarded life imprisonment to eight people in a five-year-old murder case."The court also imposed a fine of Rs 3.02 lakh to be paid by each convicted person. Out of this amount Rs 1 lakh each will be paid by all the eight convicts to the bereaved family of the murder victim Mithun Paswan who was shot dead on June 8, 2020 under the Town police station of Ara," said special public prosecutor (PP ...Read More >
New Delhi: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday filed a supplementary charge sheet at the Patiala House Court in Delhi against Tahawwur Rana in the 26/11 Mumbai terror case. The agency is probing a larger conspiracy case involving David Coleman Headley and Pakistan's ISI behind the attack. The 26/11 attacks, orchestrated by Lashkar-e-Taiba, claimed over 170 lives and left hundreds injured. Special NIA judge Chanderjit Singh has put the supplementary charge sheet for consideration on ...Read More >
Bengaluru: The arrest of a psychiatrist and two others by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has exposed a disturbing underbelly of the Bengaluru Central Prison: An illegal mobile phone racket allegedly fuelling terror and crime from within the jail.Preliminary investigation revealed that Dr Nagaraj, the prison's psychiatrist, had earned nearly Rs 1 crore by selling and renting mobile phones to hardened criminals, who used the devices to orchestrate extortions, abductions, murders, and even ...Read More >
Mumbai, July 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) Revenue Minister and the Joint Select Committee Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Wednesday in the state assembly presented the committee's report on the Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill, 2024. The minister said that the government is bringing this important bill to take action against organisations that are luring the youth towards Maoist ideologies and their associates. The joint select committee has suggested an amendment whereby the bill's aim is to curb Le ...Read More >
New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Tuesday wondered how long the prosecution can oppose bail for accused persons jailed in connection with the Feb 2020 riots that rocked northeast Delhi. During the hearing of one such case, the court asked Delhi Police how long the accused people could be kept in jail, after highlighting the passage of five years and the fact that arguments on charge were still not concluded in the terror case related to the 2020 riots.A bench of Justices Subramonium Prasad and Hari ...Read More >
New Delhi: Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, who was convicted of murdering a Yemeni citizen, is scheduled to be executed in Yemen on July 16. The victim, Talal Abdo Mehdi, was a local man with whom Nimisha had run a clinic, reported The Indian Express. Quoting Samuel Jerome Baskaran, a social worker involved in talks with Yemeni officials and Talal's family, the news report mentioned that he confirmed the execution date. "The public prosecutor has sent the letter of prosecution to the jail authoriti ...Read More >
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], July 8 (ANI): Senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia, who is currently in 14-day judicial custody, has been granted three weeks by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to amend his petition challenging his arrest. During the hearing of his bail application on Tuesday, Majithia's counsel requested the court for additional time to revise the petition. The High Court accepted the plea and granted three weeks for the amendment. The case will now be h ...Read More >
CHANDIGARH: Senior Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia, who is the brother-in-law of party president Sukhbir Singh Badal, was today sent to 14 days judicial custody in a disproportionate assets case by a court in Mohali. Amid tight security arrangements, Majithia was produced before the court. The police also detained several prominent SAD leaders and workers in different parts of the state in the morning to prevent them from coming towards Mohali. Speaking to the media after the ...Read More >
Mohali (Punjab) [India], July 6 (ANI): Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) party leader Bikram Majithia was on Sunday sent to judicial custody till July 19 in an alleged money laundering case. A Mohali court sent the SAD leader and former Punjab minister to judicial custody till July 19. Earlier today, Majithia was brought to court and presented before the duty magistrate amidst heavy police deployment. Also Read | Mahua Moitra Petitions Supreme Court Against Bihar Electoral Rolls Revision, Apprehends S ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 6 (PTI) A court in Punjab's Mohali district on Sunday sent Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia to judicial custody for two weeks in a disproportionate assets case. Amid tight security arrangements, Majithia was produced before the court. Speaking to reporters after the court hearing, public prosecutors Ferry Sofat and Preet Inderpal Singh said Majithia has been sent to judicial custody for two-weeks and will be lodged in New Nabha Jail. Earlier on July 2, a court h ...Read More >
A Delhi court has declared UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari a fugitive economic offender following a request from the Enforcement Directorate. Bhandari, accused of money laundering, reportedly fled to the UK in 2016. Despite India's efforts to extradite him, a UK court recently rejected the plea, further complicating the legal proceedings against him.A Delhi court on Saturday declared UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari a fugitive economic offender on an Enforcement Directorate plea ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, July 5 (Xinhua) -- At least four people were killed and several others feared trapped after a portion of a coal mine collapsed Saturday in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, the police said. The portion of the mine collapsed at government-run Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) in Karma area of Ramgarh district, about 55 km north of Ranchi, the capital city of Jharkhand. "Four bodies were recovered from the accident site. However, the villagers took away three bodies before the pol ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Saturday declared arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari a fugitive economic offender, observing that failed extradition attempts does not make him an "angel or immune from the prosecution for the violation of Indian laws". The order, which was reserved by the court of Special Judge Sanjeev Aggarwal on May 24, was pronounced on Saturday."Extradition attempt may have failed, but it will not make accused angel or immune from the prosecution for the violation of Indian laws. FEO pr ...Read More >
New Delhi: London-based arms middleman Sanjay Bhandari, wanted in multiple cases by the Indian agencies, was declared a "fugitive economic offender" (FEO) by a Delhi court on Saturday based on a request by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), a development which officials said will allow the federal agency to confiscate his properties anywhere in the world and bar him from filing or defending any civil proceedings in India. The court ruled that extradition attempt of Indian agencies (for Bhandari) ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 5 (ANI): A Delhi special court on Saturday declared UK-based arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari a Fugitive Economic Offender under the Fugitive Economic Offenders (FEO) Act, in connection with an income tax case involving undisclosed foreign assets. The order was passed by Additional Sessions Judge Sanjeev Aggarwal following a plea by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which alleged that Bhandari had deliberately evaded Indian legal proceedings and possessed foreign assets excee ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 5 (ANI): A Delhi special court on Saturday declared UK-based arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari a Fugitive Economic Offender under the Fugitive Economic Offenders (FEO) Act, in connection with an income tax case involving undisclosed foreign assets. The order was passed by Additional Sessions Judge Sanjeev Aggarwal following a plea by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which alleged that Bhandari had deliberately evaded Indian legal proceedings and possessed foreign assets excee ...Read More >
ISLAMABAD: Indian Deputy Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen Rahul R Singh Friday claimed China used the four-day Pakistan-India conflict in May like a "live lab" to test various weapon systems and was providing all possible support to Islamabad in line with its ancient military strategy of killing the adversary with a "borrowed knife". The senior Indian military officer claimed while Pakistan was the "front face", with China extending all possible support to its all-weather ally, Turkiye was also playin ...Read More >
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