MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Tuesday came down heavily on the police for illegally detaining a music teacher in a bailable offence and keeping him in a lock-up without his clothes. “Somebody’s reputation is not important?” asked a division bench, directing DCP (Zone III) Akbar Pathan to retrieve all CCTV footage of Tardeo police…

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court has directed Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam accused Mehul Choksi to first deposit Rs 2 lakh before it hears further his plea against a docuseries streaming on Netflix. Choksi has appealed against a single-judge order dismissing his plea against ‘Bad Boy Billionaires’. The bench of Justices Vibhu Bakhru and…

PATNA: The Patna high court dismissed on Tuesday a batch of PILs challenging the validity of the Bihar caste survey, terming the state government’s initiative “perfectly valid and legally competent”, and paving the way for the stalled exercise to resume after almost three months. The verdict delivered by the division bench of Chief Justice K…

NEW DELHI: Patna high court on Tuesday held a caste survey being conducted by the Bihar government as valid and legal. The court also dismissed petitions that were filed against the caste survey started by the state government in June 2022.Talking to reporters outside the court after a hearing by a bench headed by chief…

BHOPAL/JABALPUR: A sessions court in Jabalpur has sentenced a man to 110 years of rigorous imprisonment for giving fake appointment letters in the name of MP high court to at least 15 people after charging them Rs 5,000 to Rs 30,000 each. According to the prosecution, the convict, Purushottam Pasi, had given fake appointment letters…

GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel has said his government will study the possibility of making parental consent mandatory for love marriages. Addressing an event organised in Mehsana on Sunday by Sardar Patel Group, an outfit representing the Patidar community, the CM said health minister Rushikesh Patel had requested him to commission a “study” into…

LUCKNOW: Three days before the Allahabad high court is to give its verdict on whether the ASI should survey the Gyanvapi complex, UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath said on Monday that the structure shouldn’t be called a mosque as that would lead to controversy. “It is Gyanvapi and we must call it that. If I…

GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel has said his government will study the possibility of making parental consent mandatory for love marriages. Addressing an event organised in Mehsana on Sunday by Sardar Patel Group, an outfit representing the Patidar community, the CM said health minister Rushikesh Patel had requested him to commission a “study” into…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed CBI’s plea challenging Karnataka high court interim order staying its probe against state deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar in an alleged corruption case. A bench of Justice BR Gavai, Justice CT Ravikumar and Justice Sanjay Kumar said that the main matter is pending before the high court…

LUCKNOW: Three days before the Allahabad high court is to give its verdict on whether the ASI should survey the Gyanvapi complex, UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath said on Monday that the structure shouldn’t be called a mosque as that would lead to controversy. “It is Gyanvapi and we must call it that. If I…