Singarayakonda student tragedy, highlighting the need for a fair investigation, school management's right to due process, and justice based on evidence rather than allegations.
The Karnataka High Court on Thursday rebuked suspended Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) chairman Sahukar S Shivashankarappa while hearing his anticipatory bail application in a case related to an alleged veterinarian recruitment scam. You are committ
The Karnataka Crime Investigation Department (CID) has arrested a key suspect at the New Delhi airport amid an investigation into the alleged Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) fraud. The suspect, said to be a key middleman was allegedly on his way to
New Delhi, The Delhi High Court has held that protection granted in a predicate offence FIR does not mean it extends to distinct and independent proceedings under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act . The high court made the observation while denying antici
The Calcutta High Court has granted anticipatory bail to a woman teacher accused of pushing a disabled child and allegedly assaulting the child s mother with a knife, noting that the accused was a working woman and directed her to cooperate with the investigat
Justice Rajiv Roy observed that the daughter and the grandson had breached the faith of the elderly woman, who was surviving on her late husband s pension and is now at the mercy of her children for her day-to-day needs. Taking into account the submissions and
An Indian Express investigation has found that workers arrested during the April protests in Noida were jailed for an average of 53 days before courts intervened, granting bail in 84 per cent of cases involving substantive allegations. Judges held that mere pr
A security guard, an 11,800-kilogram tanker and a milk theft worth Rs 7,68 lakh-these were the elements of a peculiar case before the Punjab and Haryana High Court, which recently granted bail to the guard accused of being involved in the alleged theft. Justic
While cancelling the bail granted to the owners and partners of Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub, where a fire on December 6 last year in Goa killed 25 people, the High Court of Bombay at Goa slammed the sessions court, saying its order indicated an improper exer
The Patna High Court has granted bail to an Army personnel accused in a matrimonial and dowry case, noting that rejecting his anticipatory bail would not resolve the dispute. The court considered his assurance to pay Rs 20,000 monthly to his wife and son, with
A cash officer of the State Bank of India (SBI) in Gujarat allegedly manipulated ATM and bank records to siphon off Rs 1.93 crore while the bank s system continued to show the cash as deposited. The Gujarat High Court has rejected his second successive bail pl
The High Court of Bombay at Goa on Tuesday cancelled bail granted to Gaurav Luthra and Saurabh Luthra, the owners of Birch by Romeo Lane, a nightclub where a fire on December 6 last year killed 25 people, including five tourists. The court directed the Luthra
A Gurgaon court on Monday granted regular bail to Pankaj Yadav, the third accused arrested in connection with a case of alleged fabrication of forensic reports concerning a purported objectionable video of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. Mann had claimed
A Nashik court on Monday granted bail to Mateen Patel, AIMIM corporator from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, in a case linked to alleged sexual and religious harassment at a business process outsourcing (BPO) firm associated with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Wh
Money collected from Jaypee homebuyers allegedly went to a Formula One track, a hospital company, a charitable trust and an expressway, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) told the Delhi High Court on Tuesday. While Rs 32,825 crore was collected from 25,000 homeb
MUMBAI: Nearly 15 years after his arrest as an undertrial accused in the 2011 Mumbai triple blasts case, a special MCOCA court on Wednesday granted bail to Zainul Abideen Abdul Razaque Shaikh alias Zahid, citing his prolonged incarceration and the principle of
Considering the conduct of corruption-free entrance exams as a key duty of the chairman of the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC), a special court dealing with cases investigated by the CID unit of the state police on Tuesday rejected an anticipatory b
Holding that the mother cannot legally settle or compromise a case against the father for sexual harassment or sexual assault of their minor daughter, the Kerala High Court has refused bail to a 50-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting his 17-year-old da
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has denied regular bail to an ex-serviceman accused of contacting Pakistan-based intelligence agencies and allegedly sharing confidential information on Army movements in exchange for money, holding that the nature of the alle
A Bengaluru court has rejected the anticipatory bail plea of a key suspect in the alleged contract killing of 35-year-old gym trainer Vijay Kumar, citing the "gravity of the offence". Joseph N, 39, is alleged to be one of five people present at an Anekal drink
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday dismissed the second consecutive bail petition filed by suspended Punjab Police DIG Harcharan Singh Bhullar in a corruption case registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) last year. During the previous
The Karnataka High Court last week granted bail to a 65-year-old woman advocate who is accused of taking money from a murder accused s mother on the pretext of bribing a judge to secure bail. Advocate Marina Fernandes, who has been in custody for over a year s
The Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) has flagged that considering the serious nature of allegations, complexity of the investigation and impact of such offences on society, the courts are required to be extra cautious in granting bail in cyber syndicate frau
A 32-year-old man was arrested in Toronto, Canada, on Friday for allegedly killing his Indian-origin partner seven months ago. The accused, Abdul Ghafoori, was charged with first-degree murder over the death of 30-year-old Himanshi Khurana, who was found murde
