Kochi, July 14 (IANS) The Kerala High Court on Tuesday dismissed the plea filed by Pulsar Suni, the prime accused in the 2017 actress assault case, seeking suspension of his sentence pending the disposal of his appeal.Rejecting the petition, the High Court observed that the dignity of the survivor also had to be taken into consideration while deciding the request.Pulsar Suni was sentenced to 20 years’ rigorous imprisonment by the trial court after being convicted in the case.His appeal challengi…
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New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) A Delhi court on Saturday dismissed the regular bail pleas of Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the larger conspiracy case linked to the 2020 northeast Delhi riots, holding that it was bound by the Supreme Court’s earlier order declining them bail and that their fresh applications were not maintainable. Additional Sessions Judge Sameer Bajpai of the Karkardooma Court rejected the applications filed by Khalid and Imam under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha San…
Thiruvananthapuram, June 25 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday decided to implead itself in the matter relating to the alleged attack on its officials during a raid linked to the CMRL-Exalogic case, following the grant of bail to one of the accused.The attack happened outside the rented residence of former Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, where his daughter Veena Vijayan lives, who is an accused in the CMRL-Exalogic case.After questioning her at Vijayan’s rented home here in the…
Seoul, June 25 (IANS) A joint police and prosecution team in South Korea on Thursday was set to question a group of civil servants who worked at polling stations that experienced ballot shortages during the June 3 local elections, legal sources said.Four officials have been asked to appear before the team, the sources said, as part of an investigation into the ballot shortage that temporarily suspended voting at 26 polling stations across the nation.The officials are said to have distributed bal…
New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought a response from the Delhi Police on a bail plea filed by former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Tahir Hussain in the larger conspiracy case linked to the 2020 riots.A division bench of Justices Neena Bansal Krishna and Madhu Jain also sought a reply to his request for condonation of the 67‑day delay in filing an appeal against the order of a Karkardooma court dismissing his bail plea in the case registered under the Unlawful A…
Jaipur, May 29 (IANS) Acting under the Rajasthan government’s zero-tolerance policy towards corruption, Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma has ordered the suspension of 103 officers, including one IAS officer. In addition, six officials have been dismissed from service, while the pensions of 11 retired officers have been permanently withheld due to proven misconduct and corruption-related charges.Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma has launched a strong and decisive crackdown against corru…
New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) A Delhi court on Saturday acquitted all surviving accused in a decades-old case arising out of alleged fabrication of records in the President’s Secretariat, saying that the prosecution failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that a forged representation was created or that any criminal conspiracy existed. In a detailed judgment, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Jyoti Maheshwari of the Rouse Avenue Court acquitted Mohan Lal Jatia, Ashok Jatia and Ashok Jain of char…
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…
Kochi, Feb 12 (IANS) The Kerala High Court on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkoottathil in the first of three rape cases registered against him, subject to stringent conditions.With this order, the legislator has now secured bail in all three cases. He had obtained bail earlier in the two other cases.The prosecution strongly opposed the plea, contending that the accused had mentally manipulated and sexually exploited the complainant and therefore should not be grante…
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has granted 90 days’ interim bail to a woman accused in a cheating and fraud case, to enable her to take care of her two‑year‑old ailing daughter.A single-judge Bench of Justice Girish Kathpalia observed that an infant of such tender age requires not only medical treatment but also the physical presence, comfort and care of the mother, which cannot be substituted.Justice Kathpalia was hearing the accused’s plea seeking interim bail in connect…