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New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) The Centre on Monday informed the Supreme Court that the government could do "nothing much" in the case of an Indian nurse facing execution on July 16 for murder in Yemen. Attorney general R Venkataramani informed a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta that the government was doing "utmost possible". "Having regard to the sensitivity and status of Yemen as a place, there is nothing much the Government of India can do," he said. He continued, "There is a poin ...Read More >
Puri (Odisha) [India], July 14 (ANI): Renowned sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik created a sand art at Puri beach on Sunday. He crafted a sand idol of Lord Shiva to mark the first Monday of the auspicious Sawan month. Sudarsan Pattnaik said, The entire nation is devotional for the first Shravan Somvaar. We have made Lord Shiv 6-feet high sculpture... In Puri Jagannath Dham, there is a temple of Lord Loknath, and here also, many devotees have arrived. As an artist, I am praying to God to bless us wi ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 13: The gravity of charges against Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, who has been sentenced to death by a Yemeni court after being convicted of murdering a citizen of the country, has made it difficult for the efforts to seek relief for her to succeed, sources said. With Priya likely to be executed on July 16 in Yemen, there have been calls by her family and various political parties and organisations to the Indian government to make diplomatic efforts to save her. According to Yemen ...Read More >
Chennai: Preliminary investigations attribute the fire on the goods train near Tiruvallur to a possible spark from overhead electrical equipment (OHE) igniting fuel leaking from a derailed wagon.The incident paralysed services on the busy Chennai-Arakkonam route and left nearby residents engulfed in thick black smoke. The disruption left thousands of rail passengers stranded, many of whom were unable to get updates as railway helplines went unanswered for hours. The train carrying diesel from Ch ...Read More >
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has upheld the acquittal of a woman and her family in a case of alleged abetment to suicide of her husband, stating that there was no act of incitement on their part on the date when the man took his life."In the absence of any evidence... of instigation, encouragement or aiding on the part of the respondents, it cannot be said that they were guilty of any act, which could be termed as abetment to drive the deceased to commit suicide," the court said.In the order, the ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Monday a plea seeking directions to the Centre to use diplomatic channels to save Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya from execution. Indian national Nimisha Priya, who has been sentenced to death in Yemen for the murder of a Yemeni national, Talal Abdo Mehd and has been in prison for the last three years, is tentatively set to be executed on July 16. As per the causelist published on the website of the apex court, a Bench of Ju ...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 >
Bengaluru: The High Court on Wednesday directed former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda's grandson Prajwal Revanna, the prime accused in the sexual assault and obscene videos case, to approach the trial court for seeking a second round of bail and directed the lower court to decide the matter in 10 days. Earlier, the trial court and higher courts had outright rejected the bail petitions of Prajwal Revanna, who apart from being the grandson of Deve Gowda is the son of JD(S) MLA and former minister ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear on July 14 a petition seeking directions to the Centre to use diplomatic channels to save Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya from execution. Indian national Nimisha Priya, who has been sentenced to death in Yemen for the murder of a Yemeni national, Talal Abdo Mehd and has been in a Yemeni prison for the last three years, is tentatively set to be executed on July 16, following the approval of the Yemeni President Rashad al ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought a response from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on two petitions filed by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, challenging orders passed by lower courts in the money laundering case linked to the alleged liquor policy scam. Justice Ravinder Dudeja issued notice and directed the ED to file its counter affidavit within six weeks. The petitions are now listed for hearing on September 10. The first plea ch ...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: Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought the Enforcement Directorate's response on a plea by former CM Arvind Kejriwal challenging the summons issued to him in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise policy scam in the capital. Justice Ravinder Dudeja asked ED to file the counter affidavit within six weeks.During the hearing, ED raised a preliminary objection over the maintainability of the petition, but the high court asked the agency to raise everything, including the prel ...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 >
New Delhi, July: Two decades chase of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) came to an end on Wednesday with the successful extradition of fugitive Monika Kapoor, an accused in a 2002 import-export fraud and was on run since then, from USA, the agency said in a statement. As per the CBI statement, Fugitive Monika Kapoor, Prop Of Monika Overseas, in conspiracy with her brothers, namely Rajan Khanna and Rajiv Khanna, forged export documents viz. shipping bills, invoices and bank certificates o ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 9 (ANI): Two decades chase of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) came to an end on Wednesday with the successful extradition of fugitive Monika Kapoor, an accused in a 2002 import-export fraud and was on run since then, from USA, the agency said in a statement. As per the CBI statement, Fugitive Monika Kapoor, Prop Of Monika Overseas, in conspiracy with her brothers, namely Rajan Khanna and Rajiv Khanna, forged export documents viz. shipping bills, invoices and ba ...Read More >
New Delhi: Two decades chase of CBI ended today, i.e., 09.07.2025 with the successful extradition of Fugitive Ms. Monika Kapoor, who is accused in a 2002 Import-Export fraud and was on run since then, from USA. Fugitive Monika Kapoor, Prop. Of M/s Monika Overseas in conspiracy with her brothers namely Sh. Rajan Khanna and Sh. Rajiv Khanna forged export documents viz. Shipping Bills, Invoices and Bank Certificates of Export and Realization during the year 1998 and obtained 06 Replenishment (Rep. ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken the custody of Monika Kapoor, an alleged economic offender, in the US and will bring her back to India, ending an over two-decade-long run from the law, officials said on Wednesday. The development comes after Kapoor's extradition from the US. The CBI in a press release said the chase has ended after two decades "with the successful extradition of Fugitive Ms. Monika Kapoor, who is accused in a 2002 Import-E ...Read More >
New Delhi: Lawyers in Karkardooma courts called off their four-day hunger strike protesting the decision to shift the judges of 34 digital Negotiable Instruments Act courtrooms that hear cheque bounce cases from six court complexes in Delhi to the Rouse Avenue court complex. On Monday, after the coordination committee of all district courts bar associations of Delhi held a meeting with Delhi High Court chief justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya, the trial court lawyers decided to call off their stri ...Read More >
In a significant legal blow to Saif Ali Khan, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has rejected his long-pending petition against the government's move to designate his ancestral assets, worth Rs 15,000 crore, as "enemy property." In a major legal setback for Saif Ali Khan, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has dismissed his long-standing plea challenging the government's decision to classify his ancestral properties, valued at Rs 15,000 crore, as "enemy property." A trial court decision from 2000 that a ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 5: In the National Herald money laundering case, Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi told a Special Delhi Court on Saturday that the All India Congress Committee's attempts to revive the pre-Independence newspaper were misconstrued as a bid to sell its assets. Appearing before Special Judge Vishal Gogne, Senior advocate R.S. Cheema, representing the LoP, slammed the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) 'squinted version' which accused the AICC of looking for profit fro ...Read More >
The Delhi High Court has rejected Jacqueline Fernandez's plea to dismiss an FIR against her in a Rs 200 crore money laundering case involving Sukesh Chandrasekhar. The court also refused to quash the ED's chargesheet and related proceedings.The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed a plea by Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez for quashing an FIR against her in a Rs 200 crore money laundering case, involving alleged conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar. Justice Anish Dayal dismissed her plea, which al ...Read More >
Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 4 (ANI): The Madhya Pradesh High Court has set aside a 25-year-old trial court's order in relation to Bhopal Nawab's properties dispute and remanded back to the trial Court for deciding it afresh. The descendants of Bhopal's Nawab Hamidullah Khan, who passed away in 1960, along with the heirs of his elder brother, Obaidullah Khan, initiated legal proceedings in 1999 to seek division and inheritance of the Nawab's private properties according to Muslim Per ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Is there a 'Sabak' (lesson) in the film 'Kahani-2' for producer-director Sanjay Ghosh? The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to adjudicate Ghosh's petition against criminal proceedings initiated against him in a Hazaribagh court by one Umesh Prasad Mehta, who accused Ghosh of lifting from his literary work "Sabak'.The entire case is a classic example of snail paced three-tiered justice delivery system in India - a simple question whether Ghosh has lifted from Umesh's work 'Sabak' and ...Read More >
Kolkata: Sealdah trial judge Anirban Das, who sent the RG Kar rape-murder accused to life behind bars, sentenced a 45-year-old to death on Wednesday for murdering and robbing an elderly Chitpore couple 10 years ago. The judge ordered that Sanjay Sen, alias Bappa, "be hanged from the neck until dead" for murdering the couple -- both retired professors -- who trusted him and even paid for his marriage.The judge, on Jan 20, sentenced RG Kar rape-and-murder accused Sanjoy Roy to life behind bars and ...Read More >
Kolkata, July 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Kolkata Police's Detective Department (DD) on Wednesday took over the investigation into the rape of a law student within her college premises at Kasba in south Kolkata last week. The investigation was initiated by local Kasba police station, whose personnel also arrested the three prime accused in the case within 24 hours from the time of lodging of a complaint by the victim, soon after the crime was committed on the evening of June 25. Later, a special in ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 2: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday told a court here that the Congress party wanted to usurp around Rs 2,000 crore assets of the now-defunct National Herald newspaper. Additional Solicitor General (ASG) S.V. Raju, representing the ED, submitted before the Rouse Avenue Court that a conspiracy was hatched to form Young Indian Ltd -- in which Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi are majority stakeh ...Read More >
Nagpur: The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court on Monday acquitted 25-year-old man from Katol in Nagpur district eight years after being convicted under Pocso Act, outraging modesty and related charges for allegedly harassing a 17-year-old girl. The court observed that merely saying 'I love you' does not constitute sexual harassment unless accompanied by conduct that indicates sexual intent. "If somebody says that he is in love with another person or expresses his feelings that in itself would no ...Read More >
Kolkata, July 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) A trial court here on Tuesday extended the police custody of the three accused namely Monojit Mishra, Jaib Ahmed and Pramit Mukhopadhyay in the rape of a law student within her college premises at Kasba in South Kolkata, till July 8. The court also extended the police custody of Pinaki Banerjee, a security guard of the law college, till July 4. As per the statement recorded by the victim with the police immediately after the incident on the evening of June 25, B ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday set aside the decision refusing the premature release of the convict serving life term for the rape and murder of law student Priyadarshini Mattoo in 1996, saying the convict's reformative conduct was not considered. The high court said it found an element of reformation in convict Santosh Kumar Singh and referred the matter back to the sentence review board (SRB) to consider afresh his plea for premature release. "No effort was made to ev ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): The Delhi High Court is set to hear arguments from Solicitor General Tushar Mehta opposing the bail pleas of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, and others accused in the 2020 North East Delhi Riots case on Tuesday. The case involved allegations of a larger conspiracy, with 18 accused individuals chargesheeted under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), and two accused are absconding. The division bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur, at the req ...Read More >
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