New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) The Supreme Court has suspended the life sentence of a man convicted of murdering his wife and granted him bail, observing that the case rests entirely on circumstantial evidence and that the appeal pending before the Madhya Pradesh High Court is unlikely to be heard in the near future. A bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K.V. Viswanathan was hearing a Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by Shivendra challenging an order of the high court, which had declined to suspe…
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Bhopal/Jabalpur, April 27 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Congress president Jitu Patwari on Monday questioned the Bharatiya Janata Party-led state government’s seriousness in pursuing the Other Backwards Classes reservation case, even as the Madhya Pradesh High Court initiated structured hearings on the long-pending issue. Patwari said that the issue of Other Backwards Classes reservation is inextricably linked to the future of lakhs of youths, students, and families, yet the Bharatiya Janata Party gov…
Jabalpur, April 27 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday strongly reprimanded the Rajasthan Police for failing to present three Congress IT cell workers who were detained in Bhopal and later taken to Rajasthan.The action relates to a viral fake letter circulated in the name of senior BJP leader and former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje.The court was hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by the families of the detained workers.A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjeev …
New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) In an unusual matrimonial dispute from Madhya Pradesh, a woman ended her 28-year-long marriage by alleging that her husband had taken a second wife, a claim later found to be based on a misrepresentation – shocking and surprising enough even for the legal community. The husband has now challenged the ‘one-sided’ divorce granted in her favour. The case is currently before the Gwalior bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, where the husband has argued that the divorce d…
Jabalpur/Indore, April 23 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Thursday directed the state government to file its response to an intervenor’s application raising concerns over the toxicity of 900 metric tonnes of residual ash from the Union Carbide site, currently buried at a waste management facility in Pithampur. The matter came up for hearing before a division bench of Justice Vivek Kumar Singh and Justice Ajay Kumar Nirankari. The court asked the state to respond to the application filed …
Indore, April 23 (IANS) The long-standing dispute over the Bhojshala-Kamal Maula complex in Dhar has taken a significant turn with the Madhya Pradesh High Court ordering the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to provide complete videography of its extensive survey to all parties involved.The directive, issued on Thursday during ongoing hearings by a bench of Justice Vijay Shukla and Justice Alok Awasthi, requires the ASI to make the footage available by April 27, ensuring transparency and equa…
Jaipur, April 23 (IANS) In connection with a fake letter regarding women’s reservation, purportedly issued in the name of former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, that went viral on social media, interrogation of four accused is currently underway, police officials said on Thursday.The Rajasthan Police had earlier arrested four individuals, including one woman, who were brought to Jaipur on Tuesday by the Jyoti Nagar police station.According to DCP (South) Rajarshi Raj, the accused have been ide…
Bhopal, April 21 (IANS) Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP, Vivek Tankha, on Tuesday strongly urged the Madhya Pradesh Cyber Police to immediately release three IT Cell workers who have been held in custody for the past 27 hours.In a series of detailed posts on his ‘X’ handle, Tankha expressed deep surprise and disappointment at the actions of the Madhya Pradesh Police, describing the detention as unjustified and objectionable.He pointed out that the case revolves around a letter purporte…
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has dismissed a plea filed by candidates belonging to the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) seeking age relaxation and additional attempts in the Civil Services Examination on a par with the Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBC). A Division Bench of Justices Anil Kshetrapal and Amit Mahajan held that the policy decision of the Centre not to extend such relaxations to EWS candidates does not suffer from arbit…
Dhar, April 7 (IANS) National President of the Antarrashtriya Hindu Parishad (International Hindu Council), Pravin Togadia, visited the disputed Bhojshala-Kamal Maula Mosque complex in Dhar on Tuesday amid an ongoing satyagraha by the Hindu community. “How can namaz be performed at a place where clear evidence of a Hindu temple exists? The Mughal era is over. The current governments are committed to protecting religious rights. Hindus must be given full, uninterrupted right to worship at their…