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NEW DELHI: Bihar continues to operate the highest number of fast track courts in the country with 179 of them functional as of last month. Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, UP, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat are others with high number of such courts. The Centre plans to encourage setting up of at least 1,800 fast […]

Indian weddings may be globally known as ‘big fat weddings’, but it didn’t find much favour with a city court on Tuesday. The court frowned on the money pumped into such lavish affairs and asked if being known for ‘big fat weddings’ should be taken as a compliment. “India has the largest number of hungry

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court’s Rs 2,700 crore e-courts project, touted to inject vitality into a snail-paced justice delivery system groaning under huge pendency, has been gathering dust for the last 14 months with the government. The earnest resolve of successive governments to speed up disposal of cases has seldom been matched with adequate funds

JAIPUR: Rajasthan home minister Gulab Chand Kataria on Monday admitted that nearly 40% of the criminal cases filed in the past one year in the state were found to be fake following which a final report had been filed in them. Replying to allegations by Congress MLA Ghanshyam about police deliberately filing final reports (FRs),

A sessions court on Tuesday (March 3) rejected an application filed by the prosecution in the 2002 hit-and-run case involving actor Salman Khan as it ruled that an accused cannot be forced to produce any document at the fag end of the trial. “The application is not maintainable under the provisions of Indian Evidence Act

NEW DELHI: If in case of a death due to rash and negligent driving, the driver is unable to pay adequate compensation to the victim’s family because of his poor financial status, the state government must step in and pay the amount, the Supreme Court has ruled. “We are of the view that where the

MUMBAI: The CBI court dropped charges against senior Gujarat police officer Geeta Johri after it found that the CBI had not taken mandatory sanction from the state government before chargesheeting her in the fake encounter case. The court discharged senior police officer in a case where she was allegedly manipulating investigation of three fake encounters

A special CBI court on Monday dropped charges against Gujarat Additional Director General of Police Geeta Johari in connection with Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter cases, for want of mandatory sanction from Maharashtra government for her prosecution. “Prosecution against Johari stands dropped for want of sanction”, observed special CBI judge MB Gosavi. The

MUMBAI: Bombay High Court has said the Maharashtra government is bound by statutory provisions to undertake a review of minimum wages payable to workers in the powerloom sector at least once in five years. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice B P Colabawalla on February 2 heard a public interest litigation

AHMEDABAD: Thirteen years after the incident, a SIT court in Himmatnagar on Friday acquitted six accused persons in the killing of three British nationals near Prantij during the 2002 riots. Special judge I C Shah exonerated Mithanbhai Patel, Chandu alias Prahlad Patel, Ramesh Patel, Manoj Patel, Rajesh Patel and Kalabhai Patel, all residents of Prantij