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SC asks Maudany to move trial court for clubbing blast cases

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The Supreme Court today asked Abdul Nazir Maudany, leader of Kerala-based People’s Democratic Party (PDP), to move the trial court with his plea seeking clubbing of nine cases registered against him and others in the 2008 Bangalore serial bomb blasts. A bench, comprising Justices J Chelameswar and A M Sapre, asked Maudany to move the […]

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Man sentenced to 4 years RI for sexually assaulting minor girl

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A court here has sentenced a 38-year-old man to 4 years rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a minor girl. Additional Sessions Judge Lakhanlal Garg also imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on convict Bhukan Rajak. Rajak had gone to the house of the 14-year-old girl, his neighbour, and asked her to help him in work […]

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Children home guard gets 10-yr jail for sodomizing HIV+ boy

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Security guard of a children’s home has been sent to 10 years in jail for repeatedly sodomizing a seven-year-old HIV positive orphan by a Delhi court. The court accepted the minor’s testimony and medical evidence that proved the guilt of assaulter Amardeep Kujur, a Jharkhand native, saying the child’s deposition was credible and trustworthy as […]

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Sheena Bora murder case: Sanjeev Khanna seeks bail

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Sanjeev Khanna, former husband of Indrani Mukerjea and her co-accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, today filed a bail application in the sessions court here contending that the investigators have failed to find any possible motive to commit the crime on his part. “It will come up for hearing on Saturday,” said his lawyer […]

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Telangana Police not allowed to take Kobad to state

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A Delhi court has dismissed a plea by Telangana Police seeking its nod to take Maoist ideologue Kobad Ghandy, facing trial here for allegedly trying to set up a base for the banned CPI (Maoist), to produce him before courts in that state in some other cases. Additional Sessions Judge Reetesh Singh said the request […]

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Court refuses to discharge man of sexual harassment

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A court here has refused to discharge a man, accused of sexually harassing three working women by passing lewd comments, saying the statement of the complainant before police is a substantial piece of evidence. The court dismissed the revision petition of the accused, who had contended that the complainant had made different statements before the […]

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Goa HRC to hear petition on police atrocities on protestors

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The Goa Human Rights Commission will tomorrow hear a petition filed by social activist Aires Rodrigues over alleged atrocities against demonstrators demanding proper investigations into the death of priest Fr Bismarque Dias here. Several demonstrators were allegedly baton-charged on November 21 last year when they were protesting in Panaji. The three-member Commission headed by Justice […]

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PIL on marital rape: Delhi HC seeks govt”s response

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The controversial issue of marital rape was again raked up today before the Delhi High Court, which sought the government’s response on a PIL challenging a provision in the penal law which does not consider sexual intercourse of a man with his minor wife as rape. The issue came up before a bench of Chief […]

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Peter Mukerjea”s JC extended till Jan 25

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A magistrate’s court here today extended the judicial custody of former media baron Peter Mukerjea, arrested in the Sheena Bora murder case, till January 25. He was produced before magistrate R V Adone after the earlier judicial remand expired. Peter’s family members as well as Vidhie Khanna (daughter of Indrani Mukerjea from her earlier marriage […]

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Police to place certificates of evidence in Kobad case

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Delhi Police has been allowed by a court here to place on record the certificates of electronic evidence relied upon by it in a case in which Maoist ideologue Kobad Ghandy is facing trial for allegedly trying to set up a base for the banned outfit CPI (Maoist) here. The court allowed the submissions of […]

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Bombay HC hears actor Shiney Ahuja’s appeal in rape case

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The Bombay High Court has taken up for final hearing an appeal filed by Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja against his conviction in a rape case. The appeal came up for hearing on January 8 before Justice Abhay Thipsay, who heard briefly the arguments of Shiney’s lawyers Ashok Mundargi and Manoj Mohite. The lawyers said that […]

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Bribery complaint against govt official before CJM

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The Madras High court today ruled that a private bribery complaint against a government official filed before the Chief Judicial Magistrate court is not maintainable without sanction order and adequate material for proof. Justice S Vimala gave the ruling while quashing a case pending against one Bagavathiappan Pillai, a retired Superintending Engineer of the Electricity […]

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