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Non-payment of Rs 1,500 cr will land Subrata Roy in jail: SC

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The Supreme Court today extended till June 19 the parole of Sahara chief Subrata Roy with a warning that failure to meet the deadline of June 15 for the payment of Rs 1,500 crore would land him in prison once again. Roy, who in compliance with the last order appeared before the court, was told […]

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Drunk driving: Court refuses to set aside man’s jail term

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A Delhi court has refused to set aside the jail term of a man held guilty of drunken driving, saying inebriated drivers only add up to an already acute problem. Additional Sessions Judge Sanjeev Kumar denied the relief to a south Delhi resident, who was sentenced to five-day jail term and whose licence was suspended […]

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Not justifiable to keep Lokpal Act’s operation pending: SC

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The Supreme Court today said the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act of 2013 is a “workable piece of legislation” and it was not justifiable to keep its operation pending. As per the Act, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha will be part of the Lokpal selection panel. At present, there is no Leader […]

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Delhi HC asks cops about steps taken to trace missing speech impaired woman

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Taking cognisance of a news report, the Delhi High Court today asked the Delhi Police what it has done to trace a 19-year-old speech and hearing impaired woman who went missing from a metro station here five days ago. A bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Deepa Sharma asked the police to file a status […]

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Man gets life term for murdering priest

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A man was today sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment by a court here for murdering a priest in 2015. The court of Additional Sessions Judge Krishan Kumar also imposed a fine of Rs 10000 on Knakhakru Ram, a resident of Sidhpur tehsil, for murdering the priest of a local Hanuman temple. It said that in […]

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Bombay HC grants 28-day furlough to Arun Gawli

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The Bombay High Court today granted 28-day furlough to gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli who is lodged in a central jail here. A division bench of justices Bhushan Dharmadhikari and V M Deshpande directed the authorities concerned to release Gawli in two-weeks time, his counsel Mir Nagman Ali said. Gawli, the founder of Akhil Bharatiya Sena, was […]

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SC pulls up five states for not appointing food commissions

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The Supreme Court today pulled up the governments of drought-hit states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Karnataka for not appointing state food commissions or making them operational. A bench of Justices M B Lokur and N V Ramana, which had summoned the Chief Secretaries of ten states on the issue, directed that […]

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Delhi HC dismisses plea for uniform syllabus for children

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The Delhi High Court today dismissed a plea seeking a uniform curriculum for all children aged between 6 and 14 years across India. Terming the plea as not maintainable, a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhotra said this court has no competence to decide whether “History should be taught or […]

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Special court reserves verdict in 2G scam case

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A special court today reserved its verdict in the 2G spectrum allocation scam cases involving former Telecom Minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and others as accused, six years after the CBI filed the first charge sheet. Special Judge O P Saini, who is exclusively dealing with the cases arising out of the 2G spectrum […]

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Tribal woman gets life sentence for murder

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A court today sentenced a tribal woman to rigorous life imprisonment for murdering a man in 2014. Additional sessions judge of Mayurbhanj district’s Rairangpur sub-division, Aurobindo Kumar Guru, found Padma Birua (48) guilty of murder and sentenced her to life sentence and slapped a fine of Rs 2000. The woman had attacked Mohinikanta Hembram with […]

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Court discharges Abhishek Verma in graft case

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Arms dealer Abhishek Verma, his wife and others were discharged by special court today in a CBI case involving alleged payments to some officials to influence the Defence Ministry to keep a German firm out of the government’s blacklist. Special CBI Judge Anju Bajaj Chandna also discharged Verma and his Romanian wife Anca Verma in […]

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Charges framed agnst ex-Minister Dilip Ray in coal scam case

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Dilip Ray, a union minister in the earlier NDA government, was today put on trial by a special court here in a coal scam case pertaining to alleged irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999. Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar frames charges of cheating, criminal conspiracy and criminal breach of trust […]

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