JAIPUR: Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot questioned the state of jurisprudence in the country on Wednesday, alleging that corruption had seeped so deep into the judicial system that “many lawyers write judgments and take them to courts, and the same judgments are delivered, be it the lower or upper judiciary”.The controversial remark by Gehlot on the…

CHENNAI: Confusion over the jurisdictions of a sessions court and a special court in taking up the bail plea of arrested Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji has delayed the hearing of his petition although his stay in prison has crossed 75 days. During this period, he has spent five days in custody of the…

MUMBAI: Eighteen months after he was arrested for the murders of his bedridden wife and mentally-challenged daughter, a 91-year-old man has been released on bail by the Bombay high court.Justice Makarand Karnik on Friday allowed the bail plea of Purushottam Singh Gandhok, a resident of Sher-e-Punjab in Andheri (East) who was arrested for killing his…

CHENNAI: Confusion over the jurisdictions of a sessions court and a special court in taking up the bail plea of arrested Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji has delayed the hearing of his petition although his stay in prison has crossed 75 days. During this period, he has spent five days in custody of the…

JAIPUR: Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot questioned the state of jurisprudence in the country on Wednesday, alleging that corruption had seeped so deep into the judicial system that “many lawyers write judgments and take them to courts, and the same judgments are delivered, be it the lower or upper judiciary”.The controversial remark by Gehlot on the…

CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: TOI’s August 27, 2023, report on children from Bhiw Dhanora village in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad district rowing thermocol rafts across the Jayakwadi dam’s backwaters to school appears to have started turning the tide their way.The Bombay high court’s Aurangabad bench has taken suo motu cognisance of the TOI report and converted it into a…

ISLAMABAD: In spite of the suspension of three-year sentence in the Toshkhana case, former Prime Minister Imran Khan will stay in jail as he is yet to be granted bail in the Cypher case. The special court overseeing Khan’s trial under the Official Secrets Act has ordered that he be kept in Attock Jail till…

NEW DELHI: The Islamabad high court on Tuesday suspended former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s conviction and three-year sentence in connection with Toshakhana corruption case. The court has also ordered Imran Khan to be released on bail.A division bench comprising Islamabad high court chief justice Aamir Farooq and justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri announced the verdict.“Our…

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Monday filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court stating that the Census Act, 1948, empowers only the Union government to conduct the census and that no other body is entitled to conduct an exercise even akin to a census.The affidavit was filed by the Office of the Registrar General from…

DEHRADUN: A single bench of Justice Pankaj Purohit of the Uttarakhand high court on Friday delivered what was termed by judicial watchers ‘a landmark judgment’ that specified that both parents were liable for maintenance of a child, and not just the father. The judgment drew upon the recent amendment to Section 125 of the CrPC…