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Gujarat: AAP MLA Vasava, 8 others get 7 years in jail for assaulting forest officials, extortionAam Aadmi Party MLA Chaitar Vasava and eight others, including his wife, have been sentenced to seven years in prison by a Rajpipla court. ...
CBI files FIR in Rs 397-crore transformer 'scam' in Tamil NaduThe CBI has filed a case concerning a Rs 397 crore scam in Tamil Nadu. This involves the procurement of transformers between 2021 and 2023....
Court summons Naveen Jindal, ex-coal secretary in Gare Palma coal block caseA Delhi court has summoned industrialist Naveen Jindal and former coal secretary P C Parekh. This follows a CBI chargesheet alleging irregu...
SC notice to Chhattisgarh govt on bail plea of businessman in manpower commission 'scam'The Supreme Court has asked the Chhattisgarh government to respond to businessman Anwar Dhebar's bail plea. Dhebar is involved in a corrupt...
'Courts can hold sedition trials if accused has no objection': Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court has ruled that trials under the sedition law, Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, can proceed if the accused agrees. T...
2020 Delhi riots: Court rejects Umar Khalid's bail plea to care for ailing motherUmar Khalid bail: A Delhi court has turned down the interim bail application of activist Umar Khalid, who sought permission to partake in h...
ED attaches Rs 700 cr assets linked to late gangster Iqbal Mirchi, kinThe Enforcement Directorate has seized assets valued at over Rs 700 crore. This action targets properties linked to the late gangster Iqbal...
Man bought demo car at big discount, RTO officer seized it citing Rs 60 lakh road tax dues; Karnataka HC gives relief to car ownerA Bengaluru RTO officer unlawfully seized Mr. Rama's demo car, leading to a zero FIR and charges of fraud. The Karnataka High Court quashed...
2011 RSS-BJP attack: Kerala court jails 10 CPI(M) cadres for 25 yearsIn a significant ruling, a sessions court in Kannur, Kerala has concluded a long-standing case by convicting ten members of the CPI(M) for ...
Congress MLA Vinay Kulkarni sentenced to life term in BJP leader’s murder caseA special court in Bengaluru has sentenced former minister Vinay Kulkarni and 16 others to life imprisonment for the 2016 murder of BJP lea...
Husband gets relief from criminal case after mutual divorce: Odisha HC drops criminal case and dowry chargesThe Odisha High Court quashed criminal cases of 498A and dowry against a husband after he obtained a mutual consent divorce. The court rule...
Parl panel recommends retaining IPC section 377, adultery provision in proposed Bharatiya Nyaya SanhitaThe Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs has recommended retaining provisions related to carnal intercourse with minors and act...
SC to hear on Sep 12 pleas challenging validity of colonial-era sedition lawThe law on sedition, which provides for a maximum jail term of life under section 124A of the IPC for creating "disaffection towards the go...
NGO opposes criminalisation of marital rape in SC, says it would destabilise institution of marriageThe petition filed by NGO Purush Aayog Trust through its president Barkha Trehan has sought the court's intervention in a batch of petition...
Delhi LG proposes MHA to regard non-consensual sex with wife aged 15-18 yrs to be treated as rapeAs per Delhi Police sources, Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena has recommended to the home ministry that non-consensual intercourse with a wife ...
Fraudulent inducement essential ingredient for cheating : SC, New DelhiA bench comprising Justices D Y Chandrachud and M R Shah said as per section 415 of Indian Penal Code, which deals with cheating, a person ...
Lockdown violators should be booked under IPC, DM Act: Home Secy to statesthe government on Thursday directed states and union territories to book under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the Disaste...
Supreme Court says IPC provision on adultery violates Right to Equality"Definitely the matrimonial sanctity aspect is there, but the way the provisions are enacted or made run counter to Article 14 (Right to Eq...
Hate speech: Centre opposes Subramanian Swamy's plea in Supreme CourtThe Centre today termed as "not maintainable" and opposed in the Supreme Court the plea of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy.
IPC provisions that need to be done away with, tweakedSection 153B makes imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration a penal offence, punishable with three years and a fine.