Anuppur, March 20 (IANS) A devastating road accident on National Highway-43 (NH-43) claimed the lives of two individuals when a speeding car collided with a parked tractor-trolley in the Tama police station area of Madhya Pradesh’s Anuppur district, said officials on Friday. The incident occurred late Thursday evening as the car, en route from Shahdol towards Manendragarh in neighbouring Chhattisgarh, rammed into a stationary tractor-trolley.Police officials said the tractor-trolley was parked a…
Latest IPC News & Updates
Jaipur, March 13 (IANS) The Rajasthan Police Special Operations Group (SOG), on Friday, unearthed a major fraud in the Grade III Teacher Direct Recruitment Examination 2022, where candidates allegedly attempted to secure government jobs under the ‘Outstanding Sportsperson’ quota using forged Taekwondo certificates and fake verification reports. According to Vishal Bansal, Additional Director General of Police (SOG), 20 accused persons — including 19 candidates and one accomplice — have been ar…
Patna, March 12 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a supplementary chargesheet against two more accused in a 2022 case related to an alleged conspiracy by the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) to disrupt peace and communal harmony through unlawful and anti-national activities.The chargesheet was submitted on Wednesday before the NIA Special Court, taking the total number of accused arrested and chargesheeted in the case to 20.According to the NIA investigation, the two ac…
Shimla, March 11 (IANS) In a significant move to restore the proceeds of crime to the rightful claimants, the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) of Shimla has successfully restituted immovable properties valued at Rs 1.69 crore to the State Bank of India (victim bank) in the bank fraud case of M/s Arvind Casting Pvt. Ltd. Earlier, immovable properties valued at Rs 1.44 Crore had also been restituted to the Bank of India by the ED in the instant case. The ED, in a statement on Wednesday, said it…
Srinagar, Feb 26 (IANS) The Jammu and Kashmir Crime Branch said on Thursday that it has registered a formal case against two individuals for their alleged involvement in large-scale fraud in medicine procurement during the Covid-19 pandemic. A spokesperson of the J&K Crime Branch Kashmir said on Thursday, “The Economic Offences Wing, Kashmir of the J&K Crime Branch has registered a formal case against two individuals for their alleged involvement in a large-scale fraud related to procu…
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has dismissed a revision petition filed by a woman advocate challenging the discharge of her former partner and two others in a case alleging rape, deceitful marriage, wrongful confinement, and criminal intimidation. Holding that the material on record reflected a long‑standing consensual relationship rather than sexual exploitation, a single‑judge bench of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma upheld the Sessions Court’s order discharging Irshad Ali Kh…
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has flagged “serious concern” over inordinate delays in deciding bail pleas, observing that keeping such applications pending for long periods amounts to trauma for an incarcerated accused and violates fundamental rights. Granting regular bail to an accused in a 2021 murder case, a single-judge Bench of Justice Girish Kathpalia noted that the bail application had remained pending for 25 months before the trial court and continued to languish even…
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has granted 45 days of interim bail to an accused in a murder case to enable him to take care of his ailing wife and three minor children. In its order, a single-judge Bench of Justice Girish Kathpalia observed that the interim bail was sought for a limited period of 45 days on the ground that the applicant’s wife was required to undergo marsupialisation — a surgical procedure for treating vaginal cysts.Allowing the application, Justice Kathpalia…
Kochi, Feb 6 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted searches at 10 premises across Kerala and Tamil Nadu and froze assets and properties worth Rs 44.5 crore in connection with an investment fraud case, an official said on Friday.The action was undertaken in connection with the investigation into the alleged cheating and misappropriation of investor funds by Nedumparambil Credit Syndicate (NCS), Kerala, and its associated group concerns controlled by Raju George and his family members,…
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed an FIR and criminal proceedings against a Chhattisgarh-based advocate accused of repeatedly raping a woman on the false promise of marriage, holding that the case arose out of a consensual relationship between two adults, which later turned acrimonious. A bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan held that continuation of the prosecution would amount to an abuse of the process of law, and accordingly set aside the Chhattisgar…