New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court has ordered the constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) under the supervision of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary to probe alleged fraudulent sale and transfer of properties belonging to the Spiritual Regeneration Movement Foundation of India, a society founded under the guidance of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. A Bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and Atul S. Chandurkar passed the directions while setting aside an interim order of the Allahabad Hig…
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New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court has expressed strong dissatisfaction over the Kerala Police’s failure to register a formal FIR despite receiving a complaint by post, and directed the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Ernakulam district, to personally appear before it with an explanation.A bench of Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and R. Mahadevan said the affidavit filed by the state of Kerala pursuant to an earlier order was “thoroughly unsatisfactory” as it failed to answer the core …
Ahmedabad, May 9 (IANS) A DNA report has confirmed a positive match in the suspected 1992 murder case in Ahmedabad’s Vatva area, leading the Crime Branch to begin the process of registering an FIR in what investigators describe as a breakthrough in a more than three-decade-old case. Confirming the development to IANS, Crime Branch Deputy Commissioner of Police, Ajit Rajian, said: “DNA report has come in the Vatva murder case of 1992. There is a positive match. Now the FIR is being registere…
Mumbai, May 1 (IANS) The Bombay High Court has quashed the FIR registered against actor Shekhar Suman and Bharati Singh. The FIR pertains to a case from 2010 which involved uttering the words “Ya Allah! Rasgulla! Dahi Bhalla” on a comedy show. The court said that mere use of food items in a comic act cannot amount to insult to religion. The FIR was registered with Section 34 of the IPC, based on a complaint filed by a representative of the Raza Academy.The complaint pertained to an episode o…
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma of the Delhi High Court on Tuesday recused herself from hearing a plea filed by Congress MP Karti P. Chidambaram seeking quashing of a CBI corruption case linked to alleged bribery involving Diageo Scotland.When the matter came up, Justice Sharma declined to hear the case, which will now be placed before another Bench, subject to the orders of the Chief Justice, the master of the roster.Chidambaram has sought the quashing of the FIR registe…
Kolkata, April 26 (IANS) Police have filed an FIR on the instructions of the Election Commission of India (ECI) related to an incident of threatening voters in Diamond Harbour in West Bengal’s 24 Parganas district, said officials on Sunday. The Commission received a complaint that voters were being intimidated in the Kakdwip area of Diamond Harbour. A complaint was filed against a bike procession from which threatening slogans were raised against voters.The ECI has ordered the election officer a…
New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has quashed an FIR lodged against an Associate Professor of Lakshmibai College over allegations of assault and caste-based abuse, observing that allegations of caste-based humiliation were introduced as an “afterthought” and lacked the essential ingredients required to invoke provisions of the SC/ST Act.Allowing a writ petition filed by Ranjit Kaur, a single-judge Bench of Justice Neena Bansal Krishna set aside an FIR registered in 2021 at Bhar…
Kolkata, April 9 (IANS) The Election Commission of India filed an FIR against Nandigram’s Trinamool Congress candidate Pabitra Kar after receiving a complaint from BJP candidate Suvendu Adhikari. According to the commission, this complaint was filed on Thursday morning.Incidentally, on Wednesday, Suvendu Adhikari came to check the preparations for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public meeting in Haldia. Later, he held a Press meeting at the BJP office. “I would like to ask the Election Commissio…
Ranchi, April 8 (IANS) The Jharkhand High Court has taken strong exception to the alleged transfusion of HIV-infected blood to minor children at the blood bank of Chaibasa Sadar Hospital, terming the matter “extremely serious”.The court sought a comprehensive status report from the state government on the matter.Hearing the case on Wednesday, a bench led by Justice Rongan Mukhopadhyay expressed dissatisfaction with the state’s response, observing that merely registering an FIR is not enough in…
Mumbai, April 4 (IANS) Actress Kavita Kaushik has spoken about the perception of female officers being sidelined in cop dramas, stating that she has not faced such an experience, particularly given that she herself portrayed a female cop in the show FIR. The actress speaking about being sidelined in cop dramas, stressed that performance matters more than screen time for her.In an exclusive conversation with IANS, she addressed the perception that female officers are often pushed to the backgroun…