Court
- India
Muzaffarnagar riots: Court acquits 37 accused for lack of evidence
Muzaffarnagar: A court here has acquitted 37 accused in the 2013 communal riots case related to the killing of eight people, citing lack of evidence. Additional District and Sessions Judge Manjula Bhalotiya…
- India
Minor’s sexual assault ‘heinous’, says Thane court; sentences man to 10-year RI
Thane: A special POCSO court in Thane has sentenced a man to 10 years rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in 2021, observing the crime was “heinous” and deserved no…
- Telangana
500 families get evicted in Khammam on land govt allocated to temple
Hyderabad: For eight years, they cleared the vegetation, built their homes and settled into the land in Khammam that no one seemed interested in. On Tuesday, February 24, the authorities arrived with…
- India
Patna court refuses transit remand to AP police over arrest of IPS officer
Patna: A police team from Andhra Pradesh on Monday, February 23, arrived in Bihar’s Patna to arrest a senior police officer, only to be ticked off by the court concerned, which refused…
- Delhi
Delhi court convicts 21-year-old in 2016 NDPS case
New Delhi: A court here has convicted a 21-year-old man under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act for possessing 200 grams of heroin, saying the prosecution has proved his guilt…
- World
Austrian court convicts man whose girlfriend died
Vienna: An Austrian court has convicted a man of manslaughter caused by gross negligence after his girlfriend froze to death as the couple attempted to climb the country’s highest peak last year.…
- India
PIL against racial violence: SC asks attorney general to consider plea
New Delhi: Identifying persons on grounds of race, region, sex and caste would amount to treading a regressive path, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday, February 18, while refusing to entertain a…
- India
POCSO case accused escapes from Kerala court before sentencing
Kollam: A POCSO case accused slipped away from the court premises minutes before he was sentenced to a cumulative 23 years for abducting a minor girl from Assam and sexually assaulting her,…
- India
Thane man gets life imprisonment in 2021 murder case
Thane: A court in Thane has sentenced a 29-year-old man to life imprisonment for the murder of a local resident after a dispute in 2021, while acquitting his co-accused for lack of…
- India
Indian-origin man jailed in Singapore over ‘intent to outrage’ woman’s modesty
Singapore: An Indian-origin man has been sentenced to five months in jail for using criminal force towards a woman with the intent to outrage her modesty, according to a media report on…
- India
9-judge SC bench to hear pleas on women’s entry in places of worship
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday, February 16, said that a nine-judge bench will commence final hearing on a batch of petitions relating to discrimination against women in religions and at…
- India
SC cancels pre-arrest bail granted by HC to accused absconding for 6 years
New Delhi: In a significant verdict, the Supreme Court on Friday, February 13, set aside a high court order granting anticipatory bail to a murder accused who remained a fugitive for more…
- India
Man sentenced to 10 years in jail for sexually abusing class 5 girl
Thane: A court in Maharashtra’s Thane district has sentenced a 35-year-old man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for the repeated sexual assault of a minor girl. Sentencing Dhondiram Tukaram Bansode, Special…
- India
Thane court dissolves Canada-based couple’s marriage via video conferencing
Thane: A Thane court has granted divorce by mutual consent to a Canada-based couple by conducting the proceedings via video conferencing for the overseas residents. The parties had voluntarily moved the petition…
- India
Meta-WhatsApp privacy policy case: SC defers hearing to Feb 23
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday deferred to February 23 pleas of Meta Platforms Inc and WhatsApp against a Competition Commission of India (CCI) order imposing a penalty of Rs 213.14…
