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Observing that medical evidence indicated accidental death and not murder, the Delhi High Court recently acquitted a man accused of raping and murdering a 60-year-old woman who he claimed was “like his mother”. The court of Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Mukta Gupta acquitted 45-year-old Achey Lal who had been awarded life imprisonment by the […]

Washington: The deadline set by the US court for the petitioners to respond to the “suggestion of immunity” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots when he was the chief minister, ends on Tuesday. The “suggestion of immunity” was submitted by the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, on

NEW DELHI: The police Monday apprehended a 15-year-old boy who they said raped two minor girls in south Delhi’s Amar Colony early this year. The teenager was also facing a probe in four more such cases, they said. He was apprehended from a juvenile drug de-addiction centre in south-east Delhi where he was under treatment

In a move that is bound to speed up the justice delivery system in the country, the judges of the Supreme Court have informally met and decided that the judgments that will now be delivered will be kept short. “Lean, to-the-point judgments delivered in quick time” is the message that the judges are informally circulating

Delhi appears to be headed for assembly elections with the BJP declining Lt Governor Najeeb Jung’s invitation to form the government, and both the Congress and AAP favouring immediate polls to end the eight-month-long political uncertainty. Indications are that Jung, who met leaders of the three political parties — Satish Upadhyay and Jagdish Mukhi of

The Gujarat High Court on Monday issued notices to state government on a bail petition moved by suspended IAS officer Pradeep Sharma who is lodged in jail in a graft case by Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB). Sharma was arrested by ACB officials on September 30 in the graft case in which he is alleged to