Ranchi, July 2 (IANS) The Jharkhand High Court on Thursday impleaded the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as a respondent in the case of a minor girl who has been missing from Bokaro district for the past six years and directed it to participate in the investigation.Hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by the girl’s mother, Usha Jha, a division bench of Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad and Justice Sanjay Prasad asked the CBI and the state Crime Investigation Department (CID) to carry forward …
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Ranchi, July 2 (IANS) The Jharkhand High Court on Thursday directed the Garhwa district administration to ensure that around 300 rescued bonded labourers settled in the district receive the benefits of government welfare and rehabilitation schemes to which they are entitled.These bonded labourers were rescued from various districts of Uttar Pradesh nearly 34 years ago in 1992.A division bench of Chief Justice S.M. Sonak and Justice Rajesh Shankar issued the order while hearing a Public Interest …
Ranchi, June 30 (IANS) The Jharkhand High Court on Tuesday once again expressed strong displeasure over the slow pace of the probe into the alleged large-scale illegal felling of trees across various districts of the state during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020.Hearing the matter, a division bench of Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad and Justice Sanjay Prasad questioned the state government why the probe has not been completed even after four years, and what the status of the investigation is in the ca…
Ranchi, June 25 (IANS) Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Thursday received major legal relief from the Jharkhand High Court, which quashed the FIR registered against him in connection with an alleged violation of the Model Code of Conduct during the 2014 Assembly elections.With the court’s order, all judicial proceedings in the case against him have come to an end.The order was passed by the Bench of Justice Anil Kumar Choudhary after hearing arguments from all parties at length.The cas…
Ranchi, June 25 (IANS) In a fresh development in the case of 18-year-old Pushpa Kumari, who went missing nearly 11 months ago from Jharkhand’s Bokaro district, the DNA extracted from a tooth of the recovered skeletal remains matches Pushpa’s DNA profile, as per a forensic report.This was revealed in the Jharkhand High Court on Thursday during a hearing in the case based on the report of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) in Kolkata.However, the DNA of the entire skeleton has not ye…
Ranchi, June 12 (IANS) A special CBI court on Friday heard a protest petition filed by the father of deceased school student Vinay Mahto, challenging the closure report submitted by the agency in the high-profile case.Partial arguments were held during the hearing, following which the court fixed a date next week for further proceedings.Appearing for the petitioner, advocate Khushboo Kataruka raised questions over the CBI’s closure report and contested its findings.The case dates back nearly a…
New Delhi, June 2 (IANS) Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Tuesday administered the oath of office to five new judges of the Supreme Court. Justices Sheel Nagu, Shree Chandrashekhar, Sanjeev Sachdeva and Arun Palli, along with senior advocate V. Mohana, took oath as judges of the apex court after the Centre cleared their appointments on the recommendation of the Supreme Court Collegium.Acting on the Collegium’s recommendations made in its meetings held on May 22 and May 27, the Centre o…
Ranchi, May 22 (IANS) The Jharkhand High Court has taken a serious view of allegations of sexual exploitation of a woman inmate by the jail superintendent at Birsa Munda Central Jail in Hotwar, Ranchi.Taking suo motu cognisance of media reports and concerns raised by Leader of the Opposition Babulal Marandi, a vacation bench of Justice Rongon Mukhopadhyay and Justice Pradeep Kumar Srivastava on Friday converted the matter into a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) for hearing.During the proceedings…
Ranchi, May 15 (IANS) The Jharkhand High Court on Friday expressed strong displeasure over the lackadaisical handling of a missing minor girl case dating back to 2020 by Bokaro police, warning that if the situation does not improve, the probe may be handed over to the CBI.A division bench of Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad and Justice Sanjay Prasad, while hearing a petition related to the disappearance of a 14-year-old girl, made sharp oral observations questioning why Bokaro police repeatedly fail…
Ranchi, May 14 (IANS) The Jharkhand High Court on Thursday delivered a significant ruling on a public interest litigation on custodial deaths and rape cases in the state, mandating that a judicial inquiry will now be compulsory in every such instance.A division bench of Chief Justice M.S. Sonak and Justice Rajesh Shankar directed that any death or rape occurring in police custody or jail custody must be subjected to a judicial inquiry without exception.The court ruled that such inquiries are man…