The Supreme Court on Wednesday, while hearing former Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji’s bail plea, asked the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to show the pen drive recovered from Balaji’s residence, which allegedly contains evidence against him. The central probe agency arrested Senthil Balaji in June 2023 in connection with a cash-for-jobs case. In its prosecution … Read more
A Pune Session Court has granted interim protection from arrest till July 25 to Dilip Khedkar, father of controversial probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar, in a case where he is accused of threatening a local farmer over a land dispute. Dilip Khedlar filed an anticipatory bail plea in court on Friday. Khedkar is co-accused with … Read more
The Mumbai engineer who designed the Ghatkopar hoarding, which collapsed and killed 17 people on May 13, argued in court that the incident was an “act of nature” and he cannot be held responsible for it. The engineer, Manoj Ramakrishna Sangu, was granted bail by a Mumbai sessions court on Thursday. In his bail plea, … Read more
A view of the Supreme Court of India in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy The Supreme Court has held that States cannot tinker with the Scheduled Castes List notified under Article 341 of the Constitution. “Any inclusion or exclusion of any caste, race or tribe or part of or group within the … Read more
A view of the Bhojshala Temple | Photo Credit: ANI After the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) submitted its report in the Madhya Pradesh High Court of the survey at the Bhojshala Complex in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar, the Hindu petitioners exerted confidence in their case while the Muslim petitioners alleged violations on the part of … Read more
The Bombay High Court has acquitted a maternal uncle who had been sentenced to ten years in prison for sexually assaulting his minor niece who later gave birth to a daughter. A bench of Justice Sarang Kotwal was hearing an appeal against a judgement passed by the Mangaon Sessions court in Raigad which had concluded … Read more
The overhead water tank in Vengavayal village in Pudukkottai district where human faeces was found, in December 2022. File photograph | Photo Credit: MOORTHY M The Madras High Court on Monday, July 8, 2024, asked why the Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) is unable to catch the culprits even 18 months after human faeces was … Read more
BSP supremo Mayawati pays tribute to the murdered leader Armstrong’s body in Chennai on July 7, 2024. | Photo Credit: B. Jothi Ramalingam The Madras High Court held a special sitting on July 7 and passed orders for burying the body of murdered Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Tamil Nadu unit president K. Armstrong on a … Read more
A view of the Madras High Court building in Chennai. File | Photo Credit: K. Pichumani Convinced with the Indian nationality of a 67-year-old woman of Chinese origin, the Madras High Court has directed the Union Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to issue her a passport so that she can visit her eldest son, an … Read more
Engineer Rashid. | Photo Credit: The Hindu A Delhi court on June 21 asked the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to respond by July 1 to an application filed by Engineer Rashid, arrested in a 2017 Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case, seeking interim bail to take oath as an MP. Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known … Read more