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Ex-corporator, aide get life term in murder case

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A former Congress corporator and his associate have been awarded life imprisonment in a murder case by a local court. Fourth Additional Sessions Judge Vishnukumar Soni yesterday awarded life imprisonment to Vinod Singh, former Leader of Opposition in Dhar Nagar Palika who was disqualified as Congress corporator of ward no. 3, and his associate Kundan […]

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SDM accused of molestation denied anticipatory bail

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A local court has denied anticipatory bail to a former Sub-Divisional Magistrate accused of molesting a 16-year-old girl in Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh district. Additional Sessions Judge (I Class) Garima Sharma yesterday dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of the then Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM), Kharsia region, and Joint Collector, Ashok Kumar Dhritlahre, government’s lawyer PN Gupta said. It […]

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Coal scam:Court orders framing of charges against Koda, 8 otrs

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Former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, ex-Coal Secretary H C Gupta, former Jharkhand Chief Secretary Ashok Kumar Basu and six others were today ordered to be put on trial by a special court on charges of corruption, criminal conspiracy and cheating in connection with a coal block allocation scam case. Besides them, Special CBI Judge […]

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Bombay High Court raps govt for failing to handle issues of resident doctors

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The Bombay High Court today rapped the Maharashtra government for failing to handle the issues of resident doctors across the state who have been going on indefinite strikes, thus causing problems for patients. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice A K Menon was hearing a PIL by advocate Datta Mane last […]

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Court to hear coal scam case involving Naveen Jindal on Aug 4

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A special court today decided to hear next month a coal scam case allegedly involving Congress leader and industrialist Naveen Jindal and others, after the accused said they were yet to receive certified copies of documents filed by the CBI along with its charge sheet. As soon as the hearing commenced, Special CBI Judge Bharat […]

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Bombay HC allows Salman’s plea for translation of documents

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The Bombay High Court on Monday directed its registry to submit by 20 July the translation of copies of documents sought by Bollywood actor Salman Khan in connection with his appeal against the five-year sentence awarded to him by a sessions court in the 2002 hit-and-run case. Some documents in the case are in vernacular […]

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Sagar Ratna encounter case transferred to CBI: Centre

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The probe into the encounter killing of Manoj Vashisth, accused in several cases of fraud, at a restaurant here in May has been transferred to CBI, the government said today. Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Sanjay Jain also told the Delhi High Court that since the probe has been transferred to CBI as sought by Vashisth’s […]

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Two men accused of sodomy seek anticipatory bail

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Two elderly men accused of sodomising a 22-year-old man for seven years have sought anticipatory bail from a local court. The accused, Niranjan Kumar Goenka (80) and Jugal Kishor Rungta (70), moved the district court yesterday seeking anticipatory bail. The plea would be heard by the court on July 15, their lawyer Munna Khan said. […]

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Four persons sentenced to life in murder case

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Four persons were today sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court of Azamgarh,UP for murdering a woman in 2010. Additional District Judge Jagdish Prasad awarded life sentence to Aftab, Bajrangi, Fukran and Ishtiyaq for killing Manju Yadav on June 29, 2010 in Bidwal village. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on each […]

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STF tells court :Death of yet another witness in Vyapam scam

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The death of yet another witness in the Vyapam scam has come to light with the Special Task Force (STF), which is probing the case, telling a special court he died of liver ailment in February. The STF officials on Wednesday informed the court that the witness, identified as Sanjay Singh Yadav, aged around 35, died […]

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SC declines to go into PIL on Dawood Ibrahim

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Supreme Court today dismissed a plea for setting up of a special investigating team (SIT) to probe whether the government has made any serious effort to bring to justice fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, in the wake of reports that the underworld don was willing to return. “We cannot look into this issue. It is not for […]

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Yasin Bhatkal alleges threat to life, seeks 24-hr surveillance

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Jailed Indian Mujahideen (IM) co-founder Mohammed Ahmed Siddibapa alias Bhatkal, an accused in the February 2013 Dilsukhnagar twin blasts here, has alleged he is facing threat to his life from police and sought round-the-clock surveillance. In a petition filed before the Special Court for NIA cases, Bhatkal and other accused, lodged in the Cherlapalli Central […]

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