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Madras HC stays criminal proceedings against financier Anbuchezhian

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The Madras High Court today stayed till January 29 criminal proceedings against absconding film financier G N Anbuchezhian in a case relating to the alleged suicide of a producer. Justice MS Ramesh passed the interim order on a petition by Anbuchezhian who went into hiding after a case of abetment of suicide and charging exorbitant […]

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Bombay HC dismisses petitions filed by two Malegaon blast accused

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The Bombay High Court today dismissed petitions filed by Lt Col Shrikant Prasad Purohit and Sameer Kulkarni, accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, challenging the sanction for prosecution granted by the Maharashtra government under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. The petitions said that under the UAPA, the state law and judiciary department, the sanctioning […]

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Calcutta HC rejects ISIS operative’s bail prayer

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The Calcutta High Court today rejected the bail prayer of suspected ISIS operative Musa, who had allegedly planned to attack Mother House here and other places in West Bengal. Musa alias Md Mosiuddin had allegedly attacked a jail warden on December 4 inside the correctional home where he is lodged on judicial remand. The suspected […]

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Delhi HC asks Chautala to bring ailing wife’s med records for parole

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The Delhi High Court today asked INLD chief O P Chautala, serving a ten-year jail term in a teachers recruitment scam case, to substantiate his claim of seeking two-month parole to look after his ailing wife by producing her recent medical records. Justice Mukta Gupta asked the counsel for Chautala to place on record the […]

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2 men get 10-yr jail term for possessing 126 kg ‘ganja’

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A Delhi court has awarded two persons a rigorous jail term of 10 years for possessing 126 kgs of ‘ganja’, a contraband substance. Special NDPS Judge Rajesh Kumar Singh also imposed a fine of Rs one lakh on each of the convicts while holding them guilty of the offence under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic […]

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EC bribery: Dhinakaran named as accused in supp charge sheet

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The Delhi Police has accused AIADMK (Amma) leader T T V Dhinakaran of corruption and conspiracy in a supplementary charge sheet filed before a city court in the Election Commission bribery case. Additional Sessions Judge Kiran Bansal, before whom the 272-page supplementary charge sheet was filed, is likely to take its cognisance on December 21. […]

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Dalit woman rape: Court awards death sentence to labourer

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A court here today awarded death sentence to Ameerul Islam, the lone convict found guilty in the rape and murder case of a 30-year old Dalit law student in Kerala last year. Ernakulam Principal Sessions court judge N Anil Kumar awarded death penalty to Islam, a migrant labourer from Assam, for committing murder of the […]

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Tripura HC notice on journalist killing

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The Tripura High Court has issued separate notices to the state government, the Centre and the CBI seeking a reply as to why a CBI probe should not be ordered into the killing of TV journalist Shantanu Bhowmik. The journalist was hacked to death on September 20 last when he went to Mandai in West […]

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Man gets 3-yr rigorous imprisonment for molesting minor girl

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A Thane district court has awarded three years’ rigorous imprisonment to a 34-year-old man for molesting a 15-year-old girl in his neighbourhood. District judge and special designated judge for cases under POCSO Act, P R Kadam, held the accused — Mavji Lalji Verat — guilty under IPC sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman […]

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6 sentenced to death in suspected honour killing of Dalit man

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Six persons were sentenced to death by a court here today in connection with the suspected honour killing of a 22-year old Dalit man in full public view in nearby Udumalpet in March last year. Those sentenced to death included the father of the woman, who had married the Dalit man despite opposition from her […]

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Verdict in Dalit woman rape-murder case today

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A court here is set to pronounce tomorrow the verdict in the case related to sensational rape and murder of a Dalit woman which was in focus during the campaign for the Kerala Assembly elections last year. Ernakulam Principal Sessions Court had on December 6 completed the hearing in the case and posted it for […]

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