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Herald case: HC terms Gandhis’ applications as ‘infructuous’

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Delhi high court on Thursday termed as “infructuous” the applications moved by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul and some other party leaders alleging a “different treatment” was meted out to a challenge filed by them in the National Herald case. The Congress leaders in their application had opposed the transfer of the case […]

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Addl spectrum case: Court discharges accused

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The special 2G court on Thursday gave a clean chit to former telecom Secretary Shyamlal Ghosh and three telecom firms in the additional spectrum case – with the court directing the CBI to take action against erring officials for filing a fabricated chargesheet. The court has discharged them of charges of criminal conspiracy and under […]

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Five persons sentenced to life imprisonment

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Five persons have been sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court of Jajpur,Odisha for the murder of a businessman three years ago. Additional District and Sessions Judge Rohitlal Panda yesterday convicted Meherban Ali, Sultan Ali, Bebula Ali, Liaquat Ali and Irfan Ali, all aged about 30-35 years and hailing from Matabad village, for the murder […]

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SC stays amendment banning dance bars in Maha

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The Supreme Court today stayed the operation of 2014 amendment in the Maharashtra Police Act that had banned dance performances at bars and some other places, paving the way for reopening of dance bars across the state. Referring to the brief history of judicial pronouncement in the case and subsequent amendment in the state law, […]

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National Herald case: Sonia, Rahul move high court

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Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi have moved the Delhi High Court objecting to a “different treatment” being accorded to a challenge filed by them in the national herald case. In an application filed in the High Court, the Gandhis have said that their petition challenging a trial court order in the […]

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Court reserves order on Bharti’s plea for probe

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Delhi Police today questioned in a court here the maintainability of controversial AAP MLA Somnath Bharti’s plea seeking further probe in the case of alleged molestation of some African women during his purported midnight raid last year. The police, through special public prosecutor Atul Shrivastava, told the court that Bharti’s plea for further probe is […]

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Ex-telecom minister Pramod Mahajan not a conspirator: 2G court

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An attempt to drag previous NDA regime in 2G telecom scam was trashed by a special court which said CBI failed to establish that the then telecom minister Pramod Mahajan and then secretary Shyamal Ghosh were in a conspiracy to favour private players in additional spectrum allocation in 2002. Special CBI Judge O P Saini […]

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HC seeks Centre, Delhi govt reply on Uber plea

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Delhi high court on Tuesday sought response of the Centre and AAP government on Uber’s plea that the authorities be restrained from interfering with its business. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath issued notice to the central and Delhi governments as well as the city traffic police seeking their replies […]

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HC extends tenure of panel to probe housing scam

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The Bombay high court on Tuesday directed the Maharashtra government to extend till November 30 the tenure of a one-man panel appointed to probe the alleged irregularities in allotment of flats under the Chief Minister’s discretionary housing quota since 1982. The direction was given by Justices Abhay Oka and V L Achilya who acted on […]

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Two get 8-yr RI for dowry death

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A 30-year-old man and his father were today sentenced to eight years’ rigorous imprisonment in a case of dowry death of the former’s wife. The accused, Nelli Mallesham and his parents Nelli Rayamallu (50) and Devamma (48), of Koratapalli village used to harass Mallesham’s wife Nelli Lavanya for dowry, according to assistant sub-inspector, legal cell, […]

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Three persons sentenced for life in dowry death case

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Three persons have been sentenced for life by a court here in Barabanki (UP), in a dowry death case. Additional Sessions Judge, Fast Track Court, Rajbhadur Singh awarded life sentence to the victim’s father-in-lawDuryodhan Singh, sister-in-law Sarita Singh and brother-in-law Vijay Pratap Singh yesterday. The trio along with others killed Anju Singh on March 12, 2008 […]

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SC dismisses pleas seeking probe into Kargil scam

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The Supreme Court today dismissed a bunch of pleas seeking probe into the alleged multi-crore scam in the purchase of defence equipments in 1999 Kargil operations. A bench headed by Justices T S Thakur and V Gopala Gowda declined the pleas noting that nothing has survived in the PILs as the cases were probed by […]

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