New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) The Delhi High Court’s Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma on Monday rejected a plea filed by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal seeking her recusal from hearing matters related to the alleged Delhi Excise Policy case. Pronouncing the decision, Justice Sharma said that while the “easier path” would have been to recuse without hearing the application, she chose to decide the issue on the merits in the interest of institutional integrity.”While I began penn…
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Bengaluru, April 9 (IANS) The Special Court for MLAs/MPs in Bengaluru has adjourned the pronouncement of its judgment to April 15 in the murder case of BJP leader and Zilla Panchayat member Yogesh Gowda, in which sitting Dharwad Rural Congress MLA Vinay Kulkarni is an accused.The case dates back to 2016 and the court will also decide the fate of 21 other accused in connection with the incident.The court was scheduled to deliver the verdict today. It stated that the pronouncement of the judgment …
Kolkata, April 8 (IANS) Saradha chit fund company owner Sudipta Sen is set to be released from judicial custody on Thursday after getting bail in all corruption cases. He has been in judicial custody for 12 years and 11 months. He is currently lodged in the Presidency Correctional Home in West Bengal’s Kolkata.The division bench of Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj of the Calcutta High Court announced the judgment on Wednesday and granted him bail in two cases pending with the state police.As a result,…
Kolkata, April 6 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Monday quashed a first information report (FIR) lodged by the West Bengal Police’s CID against the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a coal-smuggling case, which the central agency was probing.The FIR was lodged at the Bishnupur Police station under the Diamond Harbour Police District in the South 24 Parganas district in 2002. Among the CBI officials against whom the FIR was lodged included senior central agency officer, Umesh Kumar.In Ma…
Madurai, April 6 (IANS) In a landmark judgment that has reignited national debate on custodial violence, the First Additional District and Sessions Court in Madurai on Monday awarded the death penalty to nine police personnel convicted in the 2020 Sattankulam custodial deaths case. The case pertains to the deaths of trader P. Jayaraj (58) and his son J. Benicks (31), who died following alleged brutal torture in police custody. The court had, on March 23, 2026, found all nine accused guilty bu…
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notice on a recusal application filed by AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal, who appeared in person and sought that the matter relating to the alleged excise policy case be heard by a Bench other than that of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma. The development came during the hearing of a plea filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging a trial court order discharging Kejriwal, former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sis…
Indore, April 1 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has filed a prosecution complaint against Ram Patidar, proprietor of M/s Narmada Sheit Grih, and others under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, in Indore. In a press note issued on Wednesday, the agency said it has requested the Special Court (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) to issue notices to Ram Patidar and other accused persons on March 31, 2026.The development follows an investigation based o…
Bhopal/New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) In a sharp rebuke, the Supreme Court, on Thursday, criticised the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Madhya Pradesh government in a case linked to the Vyapam scam. The apex court has directed both the CBI and the state government to submit complete details of the investigation carried out so far and provide information about all charge sheets filed in the matter.The court has asked for an affidavit explaining how and to what extent the 320-page compla…
Madurai, March 23 (IANS) In a landmark verdict that brings partial closure to one of Tamil Nadu’s most shocking custodial death cases, the First Additional District and Sessions Court in Madurai on Monday convicted nine police personnel for the murder of father-son duo P. Jayaraj and J. Bennix in Sathankulam in 2020.Pronouncing the judgment, Judge G. Muthukumaran held that the prosecution had established beyond doubt that the accused policemen were responsible for the custodial torture that le…
Ranchi, March 23 (IANS) The Jharkhand High Court on Monday ordered a narco test of the prime accused in the case involving an 18-year-old girl from Bokaro who has been missing for the past eight months, and asked the authorities to submit a report in two weeks.A division bench comprising Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad and Justice Deepak Roshan directed that the narco analysis test be conducted on the main accused, Dinesh Mahto. The court made it clear that the report must be submitted before it at…