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A Delhi High Court bench comprising of Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice R.S. Endlaw urged the Counsel representing Ministry of Culture to acquaint the Court regarding steps taken for management of the National Gandhi Museum and other museums to safeguard the historic items related to Mahatma Gandhi. The plea stated, “The past record of activities of […]

MUMBAI: A witness in the 2002 hit-and-run case involving superstar Salman Khan on Wednesday said the actor was not smelling of liquor when he met him at his place a few hours after the mishap. The prosecution’s case is that Salman’s car had rammed into a bakery in suburban Bandra killing one person and injuring

Hearing a petition filed by NGO Lokniti Foundation which stated that the process of police recruitment at the lower levels needs to be changed as it mostly enters into controversies, the Supreme Court today issued notice to Centre and all states in the matter. The NGO in its petition had claimed that rampant corruption and

NEW DELHI: A nearly six-decade ban on women being employed as make-up artists in the film industry is set to end after the Supreme Court said it was gender biased and should not continue for a day longer, the Indian Express said on Tuesday. India’s $2-billion film industry is the largest in world by ticket

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court has set aside the life imprisonment awarded to a man for raping and killing a 60-year-old woman, whom he used to call his mother. A division bench of justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Mukta Gupta set aside a trial court order which had awarded life term to Achey Lal for

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court has upheld a 2007 circular of the Central Industrial Security Force allowing its personnel to keep only up to Rs 20 with them while on duty. A division bench of justices NH Patil and RV Ghuge agreed that the measure was a step towards curbing illegal gratification and possible security

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