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Court reserves order on plea against Arvind Kejriwal

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A Delhi court today reserved its order on a criminal complaint against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal seeking his prosecution for allegedly exhorting voters to take bribe from Congress and BJP and vote for AAP in the last assembly elections. Metropolitan Magistrate Babru Bhan fixed the matter for pronouncing order on the plea on December 19 […]

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No progress in Dabholkar murder probe: kin to HC

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Family members of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar today questioned CBI’s “lack” of progress in the case related to his murder, pointing out how quickly the agency had moved in the high-profile Sheena Bora murder case. The division bench of Justices R V More and V L Achiliya was hearing petitions filed by the respective family members […]

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ISI agent remanded in 14 days’ judicial custody

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Suspected ISI agent Mohammand Eizaz, who was arrested on Friday, has been remanded in 14 days’ judicial custody by a court here. The court of Special Chief Judicial Magistrate Sanjay Singh yesterday passed the order placing Eizaz in judicial custody for 14 days, ATS Circle Officer Ankit Kumar said here today. Following a medical examination […]

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Ahmedabad Police oppose bail pleas of Hardik and his aides

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Ahmedabad police today opposed the bail applications filed by Patel quota agitation leader Hardik Patel and his two aides, arrested in a case of alleged sedition claiming that the accused may resort to similar unlawful activities if they are released. In response to the bail applications of Hardik Patel, Dinesh Bambhaniya and Chirag Patel, the […]

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SIT indicts army officer in custodial disappearance case

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A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Jammu and KashmirPolice, probing the alleged custodial disappearance of a chemist from Rawalpora here 14 years ago, has invoked the charges of abduction, murder and destruction of evidence against an army officer, who is now a brigadier. The SIT told the Jammu and Kashmir High Courtyesterday that it is […]

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High Profile Cases

Coalscam: JIPL Dir seeks summoning ex-PM as defence witness

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Jharkhand Ispat Pvt Ltd (JIPL) Director R S Rungta, an accused in a coal block allocation scam case, today moved an application before a special court seeking to summon former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a witness in his defence in the case. Besides Singh, who was also the then Minister of Coal, Rungta also […]

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Court awards life term to man for killing driver

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A man, convicted for murdering a taxi driver near Dehradun in 2008 after hiring his cab from here and fleeing with the vehicle, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court. Additional Sessions Judge Reetesh Singh held 30-year-old Vipin Kumar Saluja, a Delhi resident, guilty of the offences under various sections of the […]

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Five sentenced for life in dowry death case

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Five persons were sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Ballia (UP) a dowry death case. Additional District Judge Amar Pal Singh held Pappu, his father Subhash, mother Devi, sister Suman and another relative Shiv Chandra guilty yesterday. The court also imposed a penalty of Rs 5,000 each on the convicts. In June last year, […]

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Indrani willed most of her properties to Vidhie: chargesheet

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Indrani Mukerjea, prime accused in the Sheena Boramurder case, had willed most of her property to Vidhie Khanna, her daughter from earlier marriage with Sanjeev Khanna, a co-accused in the case, the CBI chargesheet said. The wills and some of the emails which are a part of the chargesheet stated that Indrani had bequeathed around […]

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Drunk drivers endangers life of road users: Court

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A 30-year-old man has been awarded two-day imprisonment by a court here which noted that driving a vehicle in a drunken condition not only endangers the life of the driver but also the life of other road users. District and Sessions Judge Ravinder Kaur awarded jail term to Delhi resident Jagvinder while modifying a magisterial […]

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Death sentence to 5 persons for gangrape and murder

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Five persons were today awarded death sentence by a court in Keonjhar district for gangrape and murder of a minor girl over three years ago. Additional District and Sessions Judge, Champua, Jadumani Mishra pronounced the death penalty for the five persons for gangraping and killing the 13-year-old girl in a forest near Belkundi village under Barbil […]

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Man gets 10 yr jail, to pay Rs 1 L fine for possessing heroin

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A 36-year-old man has been sent to ten years in jail for possessing 1.5 kg heroin by a Delhi court, which relied on the testimony of police officials. Special NDPS Judge Rakesh Kumar-I handed down the jail term to Delhi resident Om Prakash taking into consideration the quantity of the contraband substance recovered and his […]

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