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Only passport authority to decide on renewing document : Delhi Court

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The discretion to renew passport lies with passport authorities and the trial court should not have objected to it, a sessions court has said while allowing the plea of a rape accused seeking renewal of his expired passport. The sessions court allowed the revision petition of the man, a doctor by profession, and set aside […]

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Ayodhya title dispute; SC allows Swamy to intervene

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The Supreme Court today allowed BJP leader Subramanian Swamy to intervene in the pending matters relating to the Ayodhya title dispute with his plea seeking construction of Ram temple at the site of demolished disputed structure. A bench of Justices V Gopala Gowda and Arun Mishra, while tagging Swamy’s fresh plea with pending civil appeals, […]

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High Profile Cases

JNU row:SC seeks reply of Centre, cops on plea against lawyers

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The Supreme Court today sought response from the Centre and Delhi Police on a plea seeking an SIT probe and initiation of contempt action against three lawyers who were allegedly caught on camera “bragging and boasting” that they had beaten up JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar and others, including journalists, in a court complex. A bench […]

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Coal scam: Ex-Union minister Dilip Ray granted bail

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Former Union Minister of State for Coal Dilip Ray, the first minister of the erstwhile NDA government who was summoned as an accused in a coal scam case, was granted bail by a special court at New Delhi. Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar granted bail to Ray, who was a minister in 1999 in the […]

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P&H HC for prompt compensation to victims of hit-and-run cases

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In a major relief to victims of hit-and-run cases, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today gave direction that compensation be given to them without any delay. Following the judgement passed by Justice K Kannan, the Gurgaon District and Sessions judge and chairman of District Legal Services Authority Harnam Singh Thakur said guidelines have been given […]

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Environment Law News

Vintage motor club seeks NGT’s permission for rally

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Days after the National Green Tribunal agreed to make a one-time exception to its order which banned vehicles older than 15 years from plying on Delhi roads, a vintage motor vehicle club has moved the green panel seeking its nod to organise a similar event. Heritage Motoring Club of India filed the plea before a […]

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No incident of mishaps should occur in schools: Delhi HC

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Delhi High Court today said that no untoward incident should occur in any school in future like the ones in which the two kids died after falling into water tanks of their respective institutions here even as it sought suggestions to frame guidelines to prevent such incidents. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and […]

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Criminal Law News

Delhi Court to sentence P K Thungon on Monday

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A Delhi court today said it would pronounce on Monday the sentence against former union minister P K Thungon who was convicted in a graft case for his role in a scam relating to allotment of government shops here during 1993-94. Special Judge Sanjeev Aggarwal, after hearing arguments on quantum of sentence, reserved the order […]

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Bombay HC adjourns hearing on PIL challenging Dutt release

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Bombay High Court has adjourned hearing of a PIL challenging the early release on remission of Sanjay Dutt from Pune’s Yerawada prison, after observing that there was no urgency as the actor has already been released today. A division bench of justices V M Kanade and Revati Mohite Dere sought to know from petitioner Pradeep […]

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Criminal Law News

6-year-old’s killer gets lifer

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A district court here today sentenced a man to life imprisonment for the abduction and murder of a six-year-old boy Mehram Sandhu in October 2014. Additional District and Session Judge Tarsem Mangla held 26-year-old Tejinder Singh, who was a neighbour of the victim’s family, guilty of kidnapping and murdering the child. Singh was sentenced to […]

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More chargesheets would be filed against Bhujbals : ACB to Bombay HC

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A charge sheet will be filed within a month against former Maharashtra PWD minister Chhagan Bhujbal in a case of alleged kickbacks received in the award of contract of state central library in Kalina campus of Mumbai University here, Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) told the Bombay High Court here today. In another case registered in Navi […]

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ACB files charge sheet against Chhagan Bhujbal

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The Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau today filed a charge sheet against senior NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal and others in the Maharashtra Sadan scam. Besides Bhujbal, who was PWD minister in the Congress-NCP government in the state, his son Pankaj and nephew Sameer and 14 others are named in the charge sheet. The charge sheet, which runs […]

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