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Insurance agent gets 2 yrs RI in cheating case

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A court in Coimbatore today sentenced an insurance agent of a public sector firm to two years rigorous imprisonment in a cheating case. CBI’s anti-corruption wing registered the case against New India Assurance Company’s agent K Srinivasan on allegations that between January and March 2006, he misappropriated funds collected from various customers and issued fake and […]

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Delhi HC asks Virbhadra why he was not joining DA probe

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Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, an accused in a disproportionate assets case along with others, today said he had no problem in joining the CBI’s investigation in the matter after the Delhi High Court asked him why he was not doing so. “Your (Singh) name is there in the FIR. Why don’t you join the […]

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Madras HC moved against cyber pornography

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A PIL has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking a direction to police to take steps to check cyber pornography, saying such content had an extremely bad effect on the youth and was leading to various types of social problems and perpetration of crime. When the petition came up for hearing, a bench […]

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Youth gets 3-yr jail for assaulting 6-yr-old girl

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Well being of children has a direct bearing on growth of society as they are a “supremely important asset”, a Delhi court has observed while sending a youth to three years in jail for sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl. Additional Sessions Judge Gautam Manan handed down the jail term to 23-year-old Jitender, a flour mill […]

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Milk company convicted for selling substandard products

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A local milk processing company has been been found guilty and convicted for selling misbranded, substandard and unsafe milk products by a court in central Kashmirs Budgam district. The court also imposed a fine of Rs nine lakh on it. In his order yesterday, Sub Judge Imtiaz Ahmad Lone said, “Accused company M/S Khyber Agro […]

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Four sentenced for life for murdering Dalit

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Four persons have been sentenced for life by a local court in connection with a Dalit’s murder 17 years ago. Special Judge Harinath Pandey of the SC\ST court yesterday held Raja Ram, Ram Chandra, Munna and Narain Das guilty and awarded life sentence to them. The court also imposed a fine of Rs. 10,000 on each […]

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SC refuses early hearing to Swamy’s plea for facilities at Ayodhya

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The Supreme Court today refused to give an early hearing to BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s plea seeking facilities for the devotees visiting the disputed site in Ayodhya. “You (Swamy) are just an intervener and your plea will be heard along with that of other aggrieved parties,” a bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur […]

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Allahabad HC contempt notice to UP govt official

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The Allahabad High Court today issued contempt notice to the Principal Secretary (Home) of Uttar Pradesh, Debashish Panda, for allegedly not complying with the directions of the court to provide documents to suspended IPS officer Amitabh Thakur about departmental inquiry against the latter. Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya gave this order on a contempt petition filed […]

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High Profile Cases

14 yrs on, 31 acquitted in 2 post-Godhra riots cases

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Thirty-one people accused of looting and arson at Thara village in North Gujarat in two cases related to the 2002 post-Godhra riots were today acquitted by a court at Deesa in the district. Sessions judge N M Parmar pronounced the verdict, saying there wasn’t enough evidence. On February 28, 2002, a day after the Godhra […]

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Herald case: Cong leaders challenge trial court order

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Congress leaders today challenged in Delhi High Court the trial courts decision summoning the 2010-11 balance sheet of Indian National Congress (INC) in connection with the National Herald case, saying such an order was not “desirable” in the present matter. “Neither notice was issued to us, nor we were summoned to contest the present application […]

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Centre not to support AMU for its minority status

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Centre not to support AMU for its minority statusThe NDA government today told the Supreme Court that it would withdraw the appeal filed by the erstwhile UPA government challenging the Allahabad High Court verdict holding the Aligarh Muslim University as non-minority institution. “I changed my mind two months ago,” Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi told a […]

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Pilibhit encounter: CBI court awards life sentence to 47 cops

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A special CBI court today sentenced 47 policemen to life imprisonment for killing 10 Sikh pilgrims in a fake encounter in Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh 25 years ago. Special judge Lallu Singh had on April 1 held the policemen guilty of a “fake encounter”. On July 12, 1991, the policemen stopped a luxury bus filled […]

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