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KOCHI: An NIA special court in Kochi on Friday sentenced 10 accused in the sensational palm chopping case to 8 years of rigorous imprisonment each. Court sentenced the 10 accused for various offences of IPC and UAPA, with the maximum punishment being 8 years rigorous imprisonment. The court also ordered for giving Rs 8 lakh […]

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The vigilance and anti-corruption bureau (VACB) will interrogate finance minister KM Mani in connection with the bar bribery case that is being probed by the agency. The investigating arm of the agency, the special investigation unit-I, has conveyed the decision to the minister and has sought a convenient time for the procedure. Even though

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday declined to give interim protection from arrest to AAP MLA Jarnail Singh, who is accused of participating in preventing an MCD engineer from demolishing an unauthorised building, causing damage to state property and beating up the engineer. The court of Justice Sunita Gupta has issued notice to the police

“Compensation matters more than conviction,” say the victims of the 2002 hit-and-run case in which Bollywood star Salman Khan has been sentenced to five years in jail. Abdullah Rauf Shaikh, who lost a leg in the accident, said, “Nobody came to visit me in the last 13 years. I am forced to do petty jobs

LeT operations commander Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, the mastermind of 2008 Mumbai terror attack, has pleaded before an Anti-Terrorism Court to exempt him from appearing in the court, citing alleged security threat. Advocate Raja Rizwan Abbasi, counsel for Lakhvi, filed the application in the ATC Islamabad on Monday requesting it to exempt his client from appearing

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday refused to grant an interim stay on the state government’s beef ban law, but directed the state and the police authorities not to take action against anyone for possession of beef. The order means the beef ban law, including Section 5D of the Maharashtra Animal Preservation (Amendment) Act

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday declined to stay provisions of the beef ban law, but directed Maharashtra government not to take any coercive steps for its possession for the next three months. A division bench of Justice VM Kanade and Justice MS Sonak cited the maxim of “judicial restraint” to not stay a

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday said that the Tamil Nadu government has no authority to appoint special public prosecutor in J Jayalaithaa’s disproportionate assets case. “Karnataka has the power of being the sole prosecuting agency in the case,” the SC bench added. READ ALSO: Jayalalithaa’s disproportionate assets case The SC said that the

NEW DELHI: Failure of CBI to challenge quashing of a corruption case against UP engineer Arun Kumar Mishra has led to the release of one of the biggest properties ever attached by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Delhi — of a 6,796 sq ft bungalow on Prithviraj Road allegedly belonging to Mishra. The case pertains to

TERI Director General R K Pachauri, facing allegations of sexually harassing a woman employee, was on Thursday denied permission to travel abroad for next week’s Global Water Summit in Greece by Delhi High Court after which he withdrew his plea. Justice S P Garg disagreed with the request of Pachauri, that he should be allowed