CHENNAI: Hours after the Supreme Court confirmed the legality of the arrest of Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Chennai principal sessions judge on Monday granted his custody to the ED till August 12 as directed by the apex court. Principal sessions judge Alli also rejected the request made…

BENGALURU: False cases filed under the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, are clogging the criminal justice system and consuming precious time in various courts of law, the Karnataka high court said recently while quashing proceedings under the legislation against two brothers in a civil dispute. Terming such cases “an abuse of the…

BENGALURU: False cases filed under the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, are clogging the criminal justice system and consuming precious time in various courts of law, the Karnataka high court said recently while quashing proceedings under the legislation against two brothers in a civil dispute. Terming such cases “an abuse of the…

NEW DELHI: Justice Rohit B Deo’s surprise announcement in open court on Friday on resigning as a judge of Bombay high court came hours after the Supreme Court collegium informed him about its decision to transfer him out of the parent HC to Allahabad HC and was learnt to have been prompted by factors other…

SURAT: A fortune earned from selling a piece of land way back in 2012 has left a 57-year-old man cursing his luck! The Mota Varachha resident lost all of Rs 3.55 crore earned in the land deal to a woman who bewitched him with romantic conversations over the phone for a good decade. The victim…

ISLAMABAD: The police arrested Pakistan‘s former prime minister Imran Khan from his residence in Lahore on Saturday shortly after a trial court sentenced him to three years in prison for concealing details of gifts given to him by foreign dignitaries while in office. Imran has the right to appeal the verdict. The conviction technically disqualifies…

NEW DELHI: The Madras high court on Saturday said that a woman can’t be stopped from entering a temple on the grounds that she is a widow and made it clear that a woman, by herself, has an identity. It observed it is quite unfortunate that archaic beliefs like that of a widowed woman entering…

VARANASI: The Varanasi district court on Saturday granted the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) four weeks’ time to complete its survey and scientific investigation of Gyanvapi mosque and submit the report in four weeks. The court will hear the matter on September 2. Amit Srivastava, the standing government counsel (Government of India), moved the application…

NAGPUR: Senior Bombay high court judge Rohit Deo shocked the judiciary and the city’s legal fraternity on Friday by announcing his resignation as a judge with immediate effect in open court. Lawyers here attributed his move to the sudden transfer order issued by the HC registry on the recommendation of the Supreme Court collegium on…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in a defamation case over his Modi surname remark, faulting the trial court order for awarding the maximum punishment of two years — which led to his disqualification from the Lok Sabha — without spelling out any specific reason, though maintaining that his utterance…