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Sunanda Pushkar case: Five-star hotel suite de-sealed

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A Delhi court was today informed that the five-star hotel suite where Congress leader Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in 2014 has been de-sealed. Metropolitan magistrate Dharmender Singh was told by the advocate appearing for the hotel that it has been given possession of the suite, after which the court disposed of […]

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Bombay HC discharges cable businessman from Sunil Lahoria murder case

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The Bombay High Court has discharged a Navi Mumbai-based businessman from the murder case of builder Sunil Kumar Lahoria, observing that there were no sufficient grounds for the case to proceed against him. Justice A M Badar last week discharged Bhupesh Gupta, who runs a cable business, after holding that the chargesheet filed by the […]

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CBI faces HC flak in missing JNU student case

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CBI today faced flak from the Delhi High Court for its “complete lack of interest” and not showing any result in its probe into the disappearance of JNU student Najeeb Ahmed, five months after being handed over the investigation. Najeeb (27), a student of M.Sc Biotechnology, had gone missing from the Mahi-Mandvi hostel of the […]

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Lack of interest by CBI in Najeeb case: Delhi HC

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The Delhi High Court today said “there is complete lack of interest” on the CBI’s part in probing the disappearance of JNU student Najeeb Ahmed. The court had handed over the probe to the CBI five months ago. A bench of Justices G S Sistani and Chander Shekhar observed that there was “no result either […]

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Year after Najeeb went missing from JNU, CBI still clueless

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Exactly a year after JNU student Najeeb Ahmed went missing from the campus following a scuffle with some other students, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which had taken over the probe into the case from the city police, remains clueless. The high court had first gone after the Delhi Police to solve the mysterious […]

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Every writer has fundamental right to speak: SC

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The Supreme Court has refused to ban the controversial book–Samajika Smugglurlu Komatollu (Vysyas are social smugglers) penned by prominent Dalit writer and intellectual Kancha Ilaiah, saying every author has a fundamental right to voice ideas freely. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud junked a PIL […]

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Aarushi case: HC castigates CBI on theory on Hemraj’s murder

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The Allahabad High Court has castigated the CBI for its theory on the murder of domestic help Hemraj in the Aarushi murder case, saying it is an “impossible hypothesis” and “patently absurd”. In its 273-page verdict acquitting dentists Nupur and Rajesh Talwar in the murder of their daughter Aarushi and Hemraj, it also said the […]

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Mere lodging of FIR cannot be reason to expel student: Bombay HC

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The Bombay High Court quashed an order passed by a college expelling a computer engineering student, observing that an FIR cannot be treated as “gospel truth” and cannot be a reason for expulsion. A division bench of Justices B R Gavai and S K Shinde quashed and set aside an August 5 order passed by […]

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Delhi HC stays proceedings against DCW chief Maliwal

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The Delhi High Court today stayed the proceedings against Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal in a case of allegedly disclosing the identity of a 14-year-old Dalit rape victim who had succumbed to injuries. Justice Ashutosh Kumar granted the interim relief to Maliwal who was summoned by the trial court to appear before […]

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7 days police custody for Hindu Munnani functionary murder accused

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A court here today sent Subair, a key accused in the murder of Hindu Munnani functionary C Sasikumar, to seven days police custody. Subair, who was arrested by the CB-CID on Wednesday from the Mullapadi Railway Gate near Pollachiand, is lodged in the Central Jail. Sasikumar (36), district spokesperson of the Munnani, was murdered with […]

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SC seeks govt’s reply on plea for common electoral rolls

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The Supreme Court today sought a response from the government on a plea seeking a direction to the Centre and the Election Commission for common electoral rolls for Parliament, assembly and local body polls to save public money and manpower. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y […]

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Man awarded life imprisonment for murdering wife

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A court here today sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murdering his wife and sent his brother to jail for two years for helping him dispose of the body of the victim. Aizawl district Additional Sessions Judge-II Vanlalenmawia passed the order and instructed the member secretary of the Mizoram State Legal Service Authority to […]

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