New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) BJP Information Technology Cell head Amit Malviya has refused to drop criminal proceedings against Hindu Samhati member Santanu Sinha who levelled ‘false and derogatory’ allegations against him last year, a lawyer said on Monday. Sinha, a member of the right-wing organisation founded in 2008 by Tapan Ghosh after he left … Read more
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) After spending six years in incarceration, British alleged arms middleman Christian James Michel was granted bail by the Supreme Court on Tuesday in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland chopper scam, with the bench slamming the CBI for the delay in the trial. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta … Read more
Bhopal, Feb18 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Tuesday asked the state government to go for a trial disposal of 340 tonnes of Union Carbide toxic waste at Pithampura. A division bench of the High Court of Chief Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice Vivek Jain asked the state government to comply with the … Read more
Srinagar, Feb 17 (IANS) After a legal battle that lasted for nine long years, a court in J&K’s Sopore town on Monday convicted a paedophile with the quantum of punishment being announced on Tuesday. Mir Wajahat, chief judicial magistrate (CJM) Spore, convicted Aijaz Ahmad Sheikh of Munaji village in Sopore sub-division after a 9-year-long legal … Read more
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) In fresh trouble for former Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Kumar Jain of the Aam Aadmi Party, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs has requested President Droupadi Murmu to grant prosecution sanction for initiating legal proceedings against him in a money laundering case, official sources said. The President’s approval has been … Read more
Kolkata, Feb 13 (IANS) Initial preparations are underway to begin framing of charges and subsequent trial processes at a special court in Kolkata in the case of financial irregularities at state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has completed handing over all case-related documents to the counsels of the … Read more
Kolkata, Jan 30 (IANS) A trial court has slapped a show-cause on Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for procedural lapses in passing on information to the court about the West Bengal government’s nod for framing charges and trial process against former R.G. Kar principal Sandip Ghosh in the case related to financial irregularities in the … Read more
Jammu, Jan 25 (IANS) Indian railways on Saturday carried out the successful trial run of Vande Bharat train from Jammu and Kashmir’s Katra town to Srinagar marking the end of all technical inspections and trials before operationalisation of the passenger service on the ambitious Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL). The trial run of the Vande Bharat … Read more