Sixty-six-year-old Praful Patel has emerged as a master strategist. In the recent unexpected political developments in the state, Patel, a trusted colleague of Sharad Pawar, played a crucial role following which rebel NCP leader Ajit Pawar was installed as the state deputy chief minister and eight other veteran NCP leaders close to Sharad Pawar joined…

CHENNAI: The Madras high court has refused to quash a 2018 criminal case against Tamil actor S Ve Shekher for allegedly circulating “abusive, derogatory and vulgar” social media comments showing women journalists in poor light, saying such posts are like “arrows shot from the bow” with consequences that the sender must face.“A message sent/forwarded becomes…

NEW DELHI: Ignoring protests from lawyers against the transfer of Justice Gaurang Kanth, a judge of Delhi high court, the government notified his transfer on Saturday to Calcutta high court along with two other judges, one from Allahabad HC and the other from Punjab and Haryana HC.Justice Kanth had written to the Supreme Court collegium…

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, disqualified as MP from Wayanad, e-filed an appeal in the Supreme Court on Saturday challenging a Gujarat high court order refusing to stay a Surat trial court’s verdict sentencing him to two-year imprisonment in the Modi-surname defamation case.The petition, yet to be numbered by the SC Registry, is likely…

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the Gujarat high Court’s refusal to stay his conviction in the defamation case over ‘Modi surname’ remark.Earlier this month, while rejecting Rahul Gandhi’s plea, the HC called for the need for purity in politics and said that people’s representative…

CHENNAI: In a legal victory for the Enforcement Directorate (ED), a third judge assigned to break the split verdict by a two-judge division bench of the Madras high court on the validity of TN minister V Senthil Balaji’s arrest ruled Friday that the probe agency not being police doesn’t preclude it from seeking custody of…

CHENNAI: In a legal victory for the Enforcement Directorate (ED), a third judge assigned to break the split verdict by a two-judge division bench of the Madras high court on the validity of TN minister V Senthil Balaji’s arrest ruled Friday that the probe agency not being police doesn’t preclude it from seeking custody of…

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear on July 17 a petition filed by the Manipur government challenging a high court decision to relax curbs imposed on use of internet in the state since May 3 following eruption of ethnic clashes.Appearing for the state, advocate Kanu Agrawal requested a bench led by CJI D…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses of the CBI and the ED by July 28 on the interim bail pleas of AAP leader Manish Sisodia in two Delhi excise policy cases being probed by the central agencies. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Bela M Trivedi and Ujjal Bhuyan took into consideration…

MUMBAI: The Centre said making the offence of ‘cruelty to wife‘ by husband or in-laws under Section 498A of the IPC compoundable – that is, amenable to an out-of-court settlement or a compromise, with or without nod of the court – “will not be in the interest of women.” The Central government said this in…