Tag: Criminal news

Criminal Law News

IFS, ACB officers arrested for graft, sent to PC

by Legal India News | Leave a Comment

An Anti-Corruption Bureau officer and a forest department officer were arrested on bribery charges and sent to five days police custody by a court today. ACB Deputy SP Subhasish Chakrabarty and IFS officer Alankar Jha were arrested by an ACB special team from a restaurant on the northern fringes of the city yesterday when Jha […]

Read more »

High Profile Cases

Fresh plea in SC against grant of bail to Shahabuddin

by Legal India News | Leave a Comment

In fresh trouble for RJD leader Mohd Shahabuddin, the mother of three youths who were brutally killed by henchmen of the controversial politician has moved the Supreme Court seeking cancellation of bail granted to him in the case in which he has already been sentenced to life. The woman, whose two sons were killed and […]

Read more »

Criminal Law News

Court grants bail to man who threw ink at Sisodia

by Legal India News | Leave a Comment

A Delhi court today granted bail to a man, who had allegedly thrown ink at Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia outside the Lieutenant Governor’s office here four days ago. Metropolitan Magistrate Ambika Singh enlarged 42-year-old Brijesh Shukla on bail on furnishing of a personal bond of Rs 15,000 and a surety of like amount. Regarding […]

Read more »

Criminal Law News Top Law News

SC notice to Lalu’s son, Shahabuddin in a scribe murder case

by Legal India News | Leave a Comment

The Supreme Court today directed CBI to proceed with the investigation in slain journalist Rajdev Ranjan’s murder case and directed the Bihar police to provide protection to his family. A bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra also issued notices and sought response from RJD leader Shahabuddin, Bihar health minister Tej Pratap Yadav, the son of […]

Read more »

Criminal Law News

KFA official gets 18-mnth jail in cheque bounce cases

by Legal India News | Leave a Comment

A local court today sentenced A Raghunathan, former CFO of Kingfisher Airlines Ltd, to 18 months imprisonment in connection with two cheque bounce cases filed against him and businessman Vijay Mallya by GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd. Third Special Court Magistrate M Krishna Rao also imposed Rs 20,000 fine in each case on Raghunathan after […]

Read more »

High Profile Cases

AAP MLA Amanatullah gets bail in sexual harassment case

by Legal India News | Leave a Comment

A Delhi court today granted bail to AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan, who was arrested in connection with a sexual harassment case filed by his sister-in-law, after the investigator said he was not required for custodial interrogation. Metropolitan Magistrate Vijeta Singh Rawat gave the relief to the politician on a personal bond of Rs 35,000 and […]

Read more »

Criminal Law News

Journalist murder case suspect surrenders in Siwan court

by Legal India News | Leave a Comment

Mohammad Kaif, the alleged sharpshooter of controversial RJD leader Mohammad Shahabuddin, surrendered in a district court here today after evading arrest in the case of journalist Rajdeo Ranjan’s murder. Kaif alias Bunty gave himself up before Chief Judicial Magistrate Arvind Kumar Singh and was sent to jail, Superintendent of Police Saurav Kumar Sah said. Though […]

Read more »

Top Law News

Court orders FIR against2sureties for giving false doc

by Legal India News | Leave a Comment

A Delhi court has ordered lodging of FIR against two persons who stood sureties for a man when he was granted bail in a criminal case for allegedly giving a false and forged document. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Sonu Agnihotri passed the direction when it was informed by the police that during verification, the rent […]

Read more »

crimes against women

Criminal Law News

MBBS admission scam: HC questions TN govt on Madhan arrest

by Legal India News | Leave a Comment

Madras High Court today sought to know from the government whether it had implemented its earlier order to arrest absconding film producer Madhan, main accused in the MBBS admission scam case, allegedly involving over Rs 70 crore. When the Additional Public Prosecutor (APP) informed about the developments in the investigation into the case and a […]

Read more »

Top Law News

Transport scam: Court awaiting copy of HC order

by Legal India News | Leave a Comment

A special court today could not commence hearing afresh arguments on appointment of special public prosecutor(SPP) in the Rs 100 crore transport scam case in Delhi as it was yet to receive a copy of the High Court’s recent verdict on powers of Delhi government and Lieutenant Governor. Special Judge Poonam Chaudhry, who had earlier […]

Read more »

High Profile Cases

SC seeks Shahabuddin’s response on pleas against grant of bail

by Legal India News | Leave a Comment

Controversial RJD leader Shahabuddin could be in for trouble as Supreme Court today agreed to hear next week a plea seeking quashing of a Patna High Court order granting him bail in the murder of a person who had witnessed the gruesome killing of his two younger siblings at Siwan in Bihar. The apex court, […]

Read more »

Top Law News

SC grants 6 months for trial in a Guj riots case

by Legal India News | Leave a Comment

The Supreme Court today granted six more months to a lower court in Gujarat to conclude trial in the 2002 Naroda Gam riots case, one of the nine post-Godhra riots matters probed by the apex court-appointed SIT pertaining to the killing of eleven members of a community. “The City Civil & Sessions Court (at Ahmedabad […]

Read more »