A court in West Bengal's Murshidabbad sentenced one person to death and another to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of a minor girl, with the verdict delivered within 61 days of the crime.
The Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra government to formulate clear guidelines for determining the mental and physical fitness of prisoners, following concerns about the lack of established parameters for such assessments.
Chetan Patil and the co-accused are alleged to have conducted the construction and stability analysis of the platform, pedestal, and statue using substandard materials, knowingly endangering public safety.
Mediation meetings between Javed Akhtar and Kangana Ranaut will be held on January 21, 2025, with the hope that mediation will successfully resolve the matter.
The court's decision came during the hearing of a plea filed by Mihir Shah, the main accused in the high-profile BMW hit-and-run case in Mumbai's Worli.
A Lucknow court has summoned Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case over his 2022 Bharat Jodo Yatra remarks against Veer Savarkar.
The Supreme Court delayed hearing a plea opposing TM Krishna getting an award named after Carnatic legend MS Subbulakshmi. Despite urgent requests, the top court scheduled it for after the award ceremony.
The petition filed by advocate Vishal Tiwari sought the court to introduce guidelines for misuse and abuse of dowry laws following the suicide of a software engineer in Bengaluru.
In a court hearing on Allu Arjun's interim bail, his counsel defended him against culpable homicide charges related to the 'Pushpa 2' stampede, citing unclear police instructions and a precedent from Shah Rukh Khan's case.
Sandip Ghosh, former Principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, has been granted bail by a Sealdah court in Kolkata in connection with a rape and murder case.
The Kerala High Court granted bail to the key accused in the 2010 attack on a college professor. MK Nasar, accused of orchestrating Joseph's hand chopping, was granted bail citing nine years in jail and delays in resolving his appeal.
The Supreme Court asked the Punjab and Central governments to immediately provide medical help to the farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal and persuade him to break his fast-unto-death.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a petition challenging the quashing of criminal proceedings against two men who allegedly entered a mosque in Karnataka and chanted 'Jai Shri Ram'.
The remarks came while hearing a case involving the termination of two women judicial officers by the Madhya Pradesh High Court over alleged unsatisfactory performance during their probation periods.
The Mumbai court observed that undertrial prisoners cannot be indefinitely detained pending trial and granted bail to the Venezuelan arrested in a drug case.
MK Stalin's party DMK sought to support the Places of Worship Act, which is being challenged before the Supreme Court bench headed by the Chief Justice.
The petitioner's counsel argued that the law violates the constitutional right to equality and hinders the ease of doing business, describing it as discriminatory.
The Kerala High Court on Thursday criticised the state police for allowing the ruling-CPI(M) to erect a stage for an event on the road in the capital city of Thiruvananthapuram.
The Karnataka High Court on Thursday quashed an FIR against BJP MP Tejasvi Surya for spreading 'fake news' about a farmer's suicide in Haveri. Surya had shared on X that the farmer's death was linked to a Waqf land issue, but police clarified the suicide was due to debt and crop loss.
The court was hearing a petition filed by AIMIM leader Faiyaz Shaikh, whose request for a rally in Baramati had been denied by the Pune district police.
