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MUMBAI: The Crime Against Women cell on Tuesday filed a charge sheet against Indian Police Service officer Sunil Paraskar (57) for allegedly raping a 29-year-old model. The cops filed the charge sheet in a Borivili court. Paraskar is the first Maharashtra IPS officer to be charge sheeted on rape case.Evidence has been found against Paraskar, […]

LONDON: Sweden’s highest court on Monday rejected whistleblower Julian Assange’s appeal against his arrest warrant. A 4-1 decision saw the jury decide in favour of not lifting the warrant against the WikiLeaks founder, who is charged with allegations of rape and sexual assault. Unable to draw him out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London for

NEW DELHI: In a major embarassment to the NDA government, the Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the Centre’s plea for referring the constitutional validity issue to a 11-judge bench. A five-judge bench took a mid-way 37 minute break and returned to announce that it would not refer NJAC matter to 11-judge bench as was vehemently

Supreme Court has reportdedly stayed Enforcement Directorate’s proceedings against IT major Tech Mahindra in money laundering case. On May 7, Tech Mahindra sought urgent intervention by the Supreme Court to quash money laundering charges pursued by the Enforcement Directorate related to Satyam Computer Services, the scam-tainted company that was acquired and later merged with it

BENGALURU: AIADMK supremo and former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa scored a sensational legal victory on Monday, as the Karnataka high court acquitted her of all corruption charges in the 19 year old Rs 66.65-crore disproportionate assets case that had been hanging like an albatross around her neck for nearly two decades. Justice C

NEW DELHI: Greenpeace India – the NGO whose seven bank accounts were frozen by the government for alleged violation of foreign currency rules – on Friday submitted its reply to home ministry’s month-old ‘show cause’ notice and rebutted all the charges made against it. The group, in its response, also accused the ministry for imposing

Describing them as a “menace to the society,” the Supreme Court on Friday sentenced to death a cab driver and his male friend for “brutally” raping and murdering an “innocent and helpless” BPO employee in Pune in 2007. Jyoti Chowdhari, 22, was traveling in her company’s pick-up cab on November 1, 2007, when the driver

NEW DELHI: Sahara chief Subrata Roy, behind bars for the last 14 months, may get out of jail next week as he told the Supreme Court on Friday that he had managed to raise sufficient cash and bank guarantee of Rs 5,000 crore to fulfill the bail condition. The court had directed Roy on March

PATERSON, NEW JERSEY: A paternity case involving a set of twins had a surprise ending worthy of a daytime TV talk show: The girls have different dads. A judge ruled Monday in a paternity case that the man from whom the twins’ mother sought child support has to pay for only one of the children.

BHIWANDI: The Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi appeared in a Bhiwandi court on Friday in Maharashtra’s Thane District in a defamation case filed against him. The Supreme Court, however, had stayed criminal defamation proceedings against Rahul Gandhi on Thursday. READ ALSO: Supreme Court stays defamation proceedings against Rahul Gandhi Bhiwandi Court has given next date