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Firm denied car insurance claim due to fake licence

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A consumer forum here has rejected the plea of a tourism firm seeking direction to an insurance company to pay the insured amount of its car, which met with an accident in 2010, on the ground that the driving licence of its driver was not valid. The South Delhi Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, presided over […]

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Man gets 10-yrs jail for raping Air Force staffer’s wife

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A 55-year-old man has been awarded 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment by a Delhi court for raping and pouring hazardous “chemical” on the private parts of the wife of an Air Force staffer. The convict, who was friendly with the 40-year-old victim’s husband, committed the heinous offence at her residence. Additional Sessions Judge MC Gupta handed […]

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Court to hear plea against security to tainted MPs

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A Delhi court today agreed to hear a plea filed by a local resident seeking order to restrain the police and other central forces from providing security to newly-elected tainted MPs. The plea was taken up for hearing in the court of additional civil judge Prashant Sharma, who posted the hearing for July 25. Petitioner […]

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Kejriwal’s jail stay extended till June 6, Court chides him

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AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal’s jail stay was extended till June 6 today as he remained adamant on not furnishing bail bond in a criminal defamation case against him by BJP leader Nitin Gadkari, with a Delhi court chiding him for “legal illiteracy” and asking him to be “sensible”. Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati Manocha remanded the former […]

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HC directs police to give protection to married girl

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The Delhi High Court today directed police to ensure protection of a 22-year-old girl, who entered into a inter-caste marriage against the wishes of her parents, as her husband expressed apprehension of “honour killing”. A bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and G P Mittal also asked police to produce the girl before it on a […]

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Bhushan’s CD case: HC slams Delhi police

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The Delhi High Court on Friday slammed city police for not filing a rejoinder on its appeal against a CIC direction to it to make public forensic reports of a CD, purportedly containing conversation among senior lawyer Shanti Bhushan and politicians Amar Singh and Mulayam Singh Yadav. Justice Manmohan also directed Delhi government standing counsel, […]

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NIA Hy’bad gets transit remand of 2 IM operatives

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A special court today allowed the plea of NIA Hyderabad seeking three days transit remand of suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives Tehsin Akhtar and Zia-Ur-Rahman alias Waqas, wanted for their alleged roles in the Dilsukhnagar twin blasts in February last year. (Source: PTI)

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HC restrains Centre from encashing bank guarantee

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The Delhi High Court today stayed the Centre’s move to invoke the bank guarantee furnished by private firm Bhushan Steel Ltd in relation to de-allocation of a coal block in Chhattishgarh. “The Union of India is restrained from invoking the bank guarantee till further orders. The petitioner (firm) is directed to keep alive the bank […]

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Blackmoney: Centre moves SC for more time to reconstitute SIT

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The Centre today moved the Supreme Court seeking extension of deadline by a week to implement its order on issuing a notification on reconstitution of the SIT to probe all cases of black money by appointing its former judge M B Shah as chairman. The application in this regard was filed a day before the […]

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Hyatt didn’t follow licensing conditions: Police to HC

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Hyatt Regency was found flouting several licensing norms the day a youth accidentally fell from the hotel’s sixth floor and suffered serious injuries, city police has told Delhi High Court. In a supplementary status report submitted before Justice Manmohan the Deputy Commissioner of Police (South District) B S Jaiswal has said the agency’s investigation revealed […]

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HC reserves order on treatment of poor kids

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The Delhi High Court today reserved its order on a plea seeking direction to Centre to define its policy on medical treatment given to poor children at a hospital after an RTI revealed that over 10,000 children have died between years 2008 to 2012 due to lack of facility. “We consider your submission and will […]

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CIC imposes Rs 25K fine on Delhi’s Bar Council secretary

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Taking exception to non compliance of its order to appear before it and failure to provide information under RTI Act, the central information commission has imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on Delhi’s Bar Council secretary. Expressing “shock” for non-implementation of the transparency law at Bar Council of Delhi, Chief Information Commissioner Sushma Singh asked […]

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