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National Kabaddi player Rohit Kumar, dad get bail

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National Kabaddi player Rohit Kumar, arrested in connection with the alleged suicide by his wife Lalita who had accused him and her in-laws of harassment, was today granted bail by a Delhi court. Besides Rohit, the court also granted the relief to his father Vijay Singh on a personal bond of Rs one lakh each […]

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2016 saw several pro-consumer verdicts

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Sale of packaged drinking water above MRP, medical negligence cases and delay in handing over of flats by builders were some issues that led the consumer fora to take sellers and service providers to task in 2016. Union minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore had to knock the doors of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) […]

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Cops, lawyers should not fight with each other: Bombay HC

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Quashing a criminal case filed by a woman police constable against an advocate, also a woman, who used to park her car in front of Mahim police station here, the Bombay High Court has asked police personnel and lawyers not to fight with each other. “It can’t be forgotten that advocates, police officers, public prosecutors […]

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Delhi HC bars ‘Intex’ from selling Aqua brand mobiles

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Delhi High Court has barred leading mobile phone maker ‘Intex’ from selling its Aqua brand handsets and its accessories in the local market, taking note of a trademark infringement plea of market rival ‘Aqua Mobiles’. ‘Aqua Mobiles’ had moved the High Court against ‘Intex’ in 2013 alleging that the handset brand of its rival has […]

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US woman’s gangrape: Court sends four accused to 2-day custody

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Four men, arrested for allegedly raping a US tourist in a 5-star hotel earlier this year, were today sent to two-day judicial custody by a city court. Metropolitan Magistrate Harvinder Singh sent the accused to Tihar Jail after Delhi Police moved an application seeking their judicial custody. Yesterday, the police had arrested a tour guide, […]

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Businessman, aide arrested in murder case

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Prominent businessman Mahimananda Mishra and his aide, arrested in a murder case, were sent on a four-day police remand by a court in Jagatsinghpur district today, a day after they were brought to Odisha from Thailand. Mishra, Managing Director of Odisha Stevedores Ltd, and his aide Basant Bal were produced before the court of judicial […]

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Air pollution, AOL & Ganga hogged limelight in NGT in 2016

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The “environmental Emergency” caused by one of the worst stretches of air pollution in Delhi and the northern region led National Green Tribunal to take the Centre and some states to task for inaction, as the year also it cracking the whip on airlines for dumping excreta in air and auto majors over sale of […]

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2011 fire:Court refuses to quash summons to accused

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A delhi court has refused to quash criminal proceedings against a man accused of causing death on a person by negligence in a 2011 fire incident in South Delhi, saying the Investigating Officer had “twisted facts” to show it as an accidental happening. The court dismissed the plea of Harish Ahuja, the accused contractor who was […]

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Court rejects Swamy’s plea for papers in National Herald case

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In a relief to Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, a Delhi court today rejected “as fishing inquiry” a plea of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy seeking a direction to Congress party and Associated Journals Ltd (AJL) to produce certain records related to the National Herald case. The court said that Swamy “seemed to enlarge the scope of […]

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Air pollution: NGT notice to MoEF on plea filed by six kids

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Affected by alarming levels of air pollution caused by industries in West Delhi, six children have moved the National Green Tribunal, prompting it to seek a reply from the Centre and Delhi government. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar issued notices to the Ministries of Environment and Urban Development, Delhi government, Delhi […]

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Delhi HC seeks BCI’s reply on relaxing DU attendance rule

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The Delhi High Court has sought an explanation from Bar Council of India for its alleged action in writing to the Delhi University’s Law Faculty to relax attendance rules for over 500 students in the backdrop of the difficulties faced after demonetisation. “How can the Bar Council of India (BCI) issue such a letter? How […]

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Law Ministry faced flak over vacancies in courts in 2016

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2016 can be summed up as a year when the Law Ministry came under constant fire of outgoing Chief Justice of India T S Thakur for rising vacancies in the higher judiciary even as its efforts to finalise a document to guide appointments in high courts and the Supreme Court failed. On its part, the […]

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