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NEW DELHI: The third anniversary of Delhi high court blast saw a low-key prayer ceremony with kin of victims gathering at gate number 5. Sunday’s remembrance was in contrast to earlier occasions when in 2012, on the first anniversary, judges led by the then Chief Justice and several lawyers paid tributes to victims of the […]

The Supreme Court on Monday said that averments against CBI director Ranjit Sinha regarding the visitors’ logbook at his Delhi residence are “very serious” and asked him to reply within a week. A bench led by Justice H L Dattu rejected Sinha’s argument that filing an affidavit would mean disclosing crucial facts relating to 2G

NEW DELHI: Muslim prisoners are likely to be the biggest beneficiaries of the government’s decision to facilitate release of undertrials languishing in jails for long. This is because the rate of undertrial Muslim incarceration is almost twice that of Hindus. Calculated on the number of undertrials per lakh population (of people adhering to that particular

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from the Centre and state governments on a PIL seeking to free pavements and roads from encroachment to provide citizens their right to free passage and free flow of traffic on roads. A bench of Chief Justice R M Lodha and Justices Kurian Joseph and R

NEW DELHI: The man whose PIL led the Supreme Court to lay down a fixed tenure for the CBI director now wants a review of the rule in the light of a raging controversy surrounding Ranjit Sinha, the incumbent chief of the premier investigation agency. Journalist-turned-activist Vineet Narain has urged the Supreme Court to send

The CBI Friday moved the Supreme Court for lodging a criminal case of perjury against advocate Kamini Jaiswal, who is the secretary of the NGO that accused agency’s director Ranjit Sinha of attempting to protect a few influential accused in the 2G scam. Sinha has been in the midst of a controversy over leaked documents

NEW DELHI/BANGALORE: Controversial godman Nityananda Swamy was on Wednesday directed to take potency test in a 2010 rape case by the Supreme Court, which also criticized the Karnataka police for the “lackadaisical approach of prosecution” in the case. The sexual abuse complaint was registered against Nityananda in September 2012 when an NRI woman alleged she

NEW DELHI: For close to 20 years, the Supreme Court kept an eye on the interests of several hundred investors who were duped of crores of rupees by Skipper Constructions and allied companies floated in and around Delhi by Tejwant Singh. After years of effort and with assistance from senior advocate Dayan Krishnan acting as

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday ordered to cancel allocation of 350 acres of land in Gurgaon to real estate group DLF. The court’s verdict to cancel the allotment of land of Gurgaon’s Wazirabad village is likely to add to the troubles of chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda who has been accused

  JALPAIGURI: A schoolgirl belonging to a scheduled caste community was allegedly gang-raped and murdered soon after she protested against the humiliation of her family at a kangaroo court convened by Trinamool councilor Namita Ray in Jalpaiguri’s Dhupguri late on Monday. Namita allegedly spat on the ground and asked her to lick it. This triggered