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- India
Delhi riots: Court pulls up police over mosque attack probe
New Delhi: An Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav of a Delhi court pulled up Delhi police over its investigation into Madina Masjid attack that took place during Delhi riots last year. Police…
- Crime and Accident
UP: Four persons get life term for murdering man in 2016
Firozabad: A local court in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad district on Wednesday sentenced four men to life imprisonment in a 2016 murder case. According to the prosecution side, Aditya Mittal was abducted on August…
- Telangana
Lok Adalat to be held in Telangana on April 10
Hyderabad: National Legal Services Authority (NLSA) has proposed to hold Lok Adalat on April 10 across Telangana state to expedite civil and penal cases pending in any court from SC to the…
- India
Rajasthan: 12 SIMI members get life sentence
Jaipu: The Jaipur district court on Tuesday declared 12 SIMI members as terrorists and sentenced them to life imprisonment while acquitting the 13th accused person. All of them were engineering students and were…
- India
HC grants bail to Justice Karnan in 10 cases
Chennai: Controversial former judge, Justice C S Karnan, arrested in December last year for allegedly making vulgar comments against women and remarks against judges, was granted bail by the Madras High Court on…
- Crime and Accident
Ghaziabad judge commits suicide: Police
Ghaziabad: A senior Ghaziabad judge allegedly committed suicide on Friday, police said. The body of Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Kumar was found hanging from the ceiling fan by his wife in his bedroom…
- India
Every child has right to be in company of both parents: Allahabad HC
Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court has held that every child has a right to be in the care and company of both parents who together are his world, and in cases of estranged…
- India
‘Not good law’: Allahabad HC strikes down earlier verdict on conversion
Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has struck down its previous judgement in which it held that religious conversion “just for the purpose of marriage” was unacceptable. The court said that essentially it…
- India
Uttarakhand HC issues notice to Maha Governor Bhagat Koshyari
Dehradun: The Uttarakhand High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari seeking his response on a contempt plea for failure to follow a court order to pay…
- India
Very improper to file plea and say make me HC judge: SC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday said it is very improper that someone files a petition and says that he should be made a judge of the high court. A bench headed by…
- India
Former Supreme Court Judge, A R Lakshmanan dead
Chennai: Justice A R Lakshmanan, former Judge of the Supreme Court, who banned smoking in public places and issued a telephonic order to permit a student to write a university exam, has died…
- World
ICC to continue working despite US sanctions: Judge
The Hague: The International Criminal Courts (ICC0 presiding judge Chile Eboe-Osuji has said that the US sanctions on its personnel were a “direct, undisguised attack on the rule of law” and that it…
- Hyderabad News
Celebrating life, contribution of Justice Hosbet Suresh
Hyderabad: Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, Human Rights Law Network, Majlis, People’s Union for Civil Liberties, Citizens of Justice and Peace, Lawyers Collective, People’s Watch, etc. are celebrating life and…
- Pakistan
Pak Chief Justice directs to open malls
Islamabad: Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed on Monday issued directions to reopen shopping malls across the country amid the coronavirus pandemic. During a hearing of a suo motu case regarding measures taken…
- Opinions
Icebergs, Vicebergs and the Dream—Any doubt?
Shafeeq R. Mahajir Anger: annoyance, vexation, exasperation, rage, fury, wrath; defensive response to an underlying feeling of vulnerability or powerlessness. Management: process of dealing with or controlling things or people. Anger management: psycho-therapeutic…
- India
Judge hearing 2002 Naroda Gam Riot Case transferred
Ahmedabad: A special SIT judge hearing the 2002 Naroda Gam riot case, in which former BJP minister Maya Kodnani is an accused, has been transferred as principal district judge of Valsad by an…
- World
Chicagoland rallies behind Azam for Circuit Court Judge
Illinois: A Community Meet and Greet event was hosted for Azam Nizamuddin, Democratic candidate for Circuit Court Judge in DuPage County at Royal Palace in Naperville, Illinois. The event was attended by…
- Middle East
Militants kill judge in Afghanistan
Kabul: Taliban militants has killed a primary court judge in Afghanistan’s western Herat province, a local official said Tuesday. The incident happened late on Monday night when a group of Taliban militants…
- Crime and Accident
Man flings iron rod at Mumbai judge, arrested
Mumbai: In a bizarre incident, a man flung an iron rod at a judge during a court hearing at the Dindoshi Sessions Court, here on Thursday, sources said. The incident occurred around…
- Bangalore News
Former SC Judge and K’taka Lokayukta N Venkatachala passes away
Bengaluru (Karnataka): Former Karnataka Lokayukta and former Supreme Court Judge N Venkatachala passed away here on Wednesday at the age of 89. The reason for his death was attributed to an accidental…
- Automobile
Tesla CEO Musk violated national labour laws: Judge
San Francisco: Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk violated national labour laws when it prevented workers from organising a union at the company’s Fremont factory, a California judge has ruled. Mentioning a controversial…
- World
Saudi Arabia: US woman loses daughter’s custody battle
New York: A US woman in Saudi Arabia has lost the custody battle for her daughter as her ex-husband used her bikini photos to cite she is not fit to look after the…
- Crime and Accident
Two persons land in jail for letting out bovines free on road
Vadodara: For the first time, two persons landed in jail for three months for letting out their bovines free on the road. This sentence was pronounced by a court of Additional Sessions…
- News
US imposes sanctions on Venezuelan Foreign Minister, judge; steps up pressure on Maduro regime
Washington: Stepping up pressure on Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro to resign, US on Friday imposed sanctions and froze assets of the crisis-hit country’s foreign minister Jorge Arreaza and a judge, Carol Padilla,…
- Middle East
Nigerian appeal court rejects judge’s bid to stop trial
Abuja, Nigeria:A Nigerian appeal court on Wednesday dismissed a bid by the country’s top judge to stop his corruption trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal — a special financial ethics court.…
- India
SC seeks Centre’s views on ‘unequal pension’ to judges
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has sought the response of Department of Justice on a plea highlighting inequalities in the payment of pension to service judges against those elevated from the Bar.…
- News
Rajasthan: Sandalwood tree stolen from judge Kishan Gujjar’s home
A judge in the family court in Kota named Kishan Gujjar was robbed of more than Rs 1 crore in the form of a decades-old sandalwood tree. The judge lives in a…
