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High Profile Cases

High Profile Cases

Accused Tawde seeks to be impleaded as respondent

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Virendra Tawde, accused in the murder cases of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar and activist Govind Pansare, has approached the Bombay High Court seeking to be impleaded as a respondent in the petition filed by Maharashtra government seeking stay in the Pansare trial. The state CID, probing the Pansare murder case, had earlier this year filed a […]

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Madras HC summons CMD of United India Insurance

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The Madras High Court has directed the Chairman and Managing Director of United India Insurance company to appear before it on December 22 to explain the “negligence and carelessness” of officials which were repeated in motor vehicles accident claim cases. Justice N Kirubakaran of the court’s Madurai bench while hearing an appeal filed by the […]

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SC to hear plea agst CBI interim boss’s appointment on Dec 9

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The Supreme Court today agreed to hear on December 9 a plea challenging the appointment of Gujarat cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana as the interim director of CBI. “Okay. It will come up on Friday,” a bench comprising Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justices D Y Chandrachud and L Nageswara Rao said after advocate […]

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Kejriwal permanently exempted from appearance in defamation

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Delhi High Court today granted permanent exemption to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal from appearing in person before a trial court here in a criminal defamation case filed by Amit Sibal, lawyer son of former union minster Kapil Sibal. Justice Mukta Gupta, however, said that if the proceedings in the matter are delayed due to Kejriwal’s […]

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Allahabad HC defers for tomorrow verdict on plea against Modi’s election

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The Allahabad High Court today deferred till tomorrow the pronouncement of verdict on the petition challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s election from Varanasi Lok Sabha seat in 2014. Justice Vikram Nath began dictating the orders today on the petition of Congress MLA Ajay Rai, who had unsuccessfully contested from Varanasi in the Lok Sabha polls, […]

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Uphaar case: Ansals assure court they will not leave India

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Real estate barons Sushil and Gopal Ansal today assured the Supreme Court that they will not leave India till it commences hearing on the plea of the victims’ association of the 1997 Uphaar fire tragedy seeking review of its 2015 verdict. The apex court in 2015 had said that real estate barons were required to […]

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SC’s national anthem order: Experts have different views

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The Supreme Court order directing cinema halls to play the national anthem before screening to “instill committed patriotism and nationalism” has received mixed reactions from legal experts with a few terming it as “judiciary’s over-enthusiasm” and others saying playing it and respecting it won’t cause any harm. While former Attorney General and noted lawyer Soli […]

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Complaint against Farooq,Omar for alleged objectionable remark

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A complaint has been filed in a court here against former chief ministers of Jammu and Kashmir, Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah, alleging that Farooq had made anti-national remarks during a TV show recently. Bundu Khan, a resident of Mira Sarai, filed the plea in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohammad Aslam […]

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Plea ag’st CIC refusal to give info on Tata-Docomo

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A plea has been moved in the Delhi High Court against the Central Information Commission’s (CIC) refusal to provide information regarding Tata Sons application to RBI in connection with purchase of Japanese telecom major NTT Docomo’s stake in Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTSL). The application in CIC under the Right to Information (RTI) Act had also […]

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Charge sheet filed in IRS scam in Thane court

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A 5000-page charge sheet was filed in a special court today in connection with the multi-crore call centre scam wherein the accused based here allegedly duped US citizens by posing as officials of the US’ Internal Revenue Service and made them cough up money by threatening ‘legal action’. The charge sheet, filed by the crime […]

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Demonetisation: SC asks Centre to spell out steps to ease

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The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to spell out measures taken to ease the sufferings and inconvenience of people in rural areas, who are mostly dependent on co-operative banks, post-demonetisation. A bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justice D Y Chandrachud, while hearing a batch of pleas challenging various aspects of demonetisation, […]

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SC refuses to entertain plea to play national anthem in courts

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The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a plea of a BJP leader and lawyer seeking playing of national anthem in all courts before the start of proceedings. A bench of justices Dipak Misra and Amitava Roy said it is not inclined to entertain the plea of BJP spokesperson Ashwani Kumar Upadhyay after Attorney General […]

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