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High Profile Cases

High Profile Cases

AAP new education reform plan under Delhi HC scanner

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The Delhi High Court has sought AAP government’s reply to a plea challenging its new education reform plan ‘Chunauti 2018’ which seeks to check dropout rate of students and improve education quality with special focus on the weaker students. Under ‘Chunauti 2018’ scheme, students would be mapped and the weaker students would be given “special […]

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Bail granted to suspended BJP MP Kirti Azad in defamation case

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A Delhi court today granted bail to suspended BJP MP Kirti Azad and two others in a criminal defamation complaint of an under-19 cricketer’s father for allegedly making false statements with “mala fide intention” regarding his son’s selection in team for Vijay Hazare Trophy. Metropolitan Magistrate Harvinder Singh granted the relief to Azad, former cricketer […]

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Delhi HC sets aside AAP-govt order appointing Parl Secys

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Delhi High Court today set aside the Arvind Kejriwal-led government’s order appointing 21 AAP MLAs as parliamentary secretaries. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal passed the order after the counsel appearing for Delhi government “conceded” that the March 13, 2015 order was issued without taking concurrence or views of […]

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Court asks Kejriwal, Sisodia to appear on December 12

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh, accused of violating prohibitory orders and obstructing public servants in discharging their duty during an agitation here, were today directed to appear before a city court in December. Metropolitan Magistrate Harvinder Singh passed the order while granting the […]

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Youth gets life term for killing girlfriend's parents

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SC refuses to give protection from arrest to Dadlani

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The Supreme Court today refused to grant protection from arrest to music composer Vishal Dadlani for allegedly making scathing remarks against Jain monk Tarun Sagar and asked him to move the high court. A bench of Justices V Gopala Gowda and Adarsh Kumar Goel also declined Dadlani’s prayer for quashing of FIR lodged against him […]

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Orissa HC grants anticipatory bail to Baragarh BJD MLA

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The Orissa High Court today allowed the anticipatory bail application of BJD MLA Debesh Acharya, booked by police in connection with alleged involvement in the attack on the convoy of two Union ministers in June. A single bench of Justice Debabrata Das granted the bail to the ruling party legislator from Baragarh who was booked […]

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SC quashes case against Dhoni for portraying himself as God

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The Supreme Court today quashed criminal proceedings against cricketer M S Dhoni for allegedly hurting religious sentiments by portraying himself as God on a magazine cover. A bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi granted the relief to Dhoni after noting that the trial court in Karnataka erred in summoning the cricketer without following the due […]

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Fin Min to challenge HC on online travel portals

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A recent High Court verdict directing the central revenue authorities to refund service tax collected from three travel portals including MakeMyTrip may be challenged in Supreme Court by the government. Officials sources today said legal experts are going through the High Court order and an appeal challenging the verdict is likely to be filed in […]

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Coal scam case against Jindal: CBI files probe report

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CBI today filed a report on its further probe in a coal scam case involving Congress leader and industrialist Naveen Jindal, ex-Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao, ex-Coal Secretary H C Gupta and others. The report filed before Special Judge Bharat Parashar in a sealed cover included statements of certain persons recorded during […]

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Rahul to SC, prefer to face trial in RSS defamation case

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Rahul Gandhi today preferred to face trial as an accused in a defamation case for his remark against the RSS on the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, telling the Supreme Court he stood by every word of his statement made during a poll rally in 2014. The Congress Vice President expressed his readiness to face trial […]

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Singur: SC sets aside land acquisition for Tata’s Nano plant

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In a ruling which can have far- reaching consequences, the Supreme Court today set aside the controversial acquisition of 997.11 acres of land in Singur in 2006 by the then Left Front government in West Bengal to set up Tata Motors’ ambitious Nano car manufacturing plant. The verdict, which came as a huge setback to […]

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Death sentence to B’deshi, in Shramjeevi blast case

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A Bangladeshi national, having links with Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) terror outfit, was today awarded death sentence by a local court here for the 2005 Shramjeevi Express train blast which had killed 12 people and injured scores others. Ubed-ur-Rehman alias Babu is the second accused who has been awarded death sentence in the case. Additional Sessions […]

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