Aryan Khan Must Be Denied Bail As Attempts Made To Influence Witness, Tamper Evidence : NCB To Bombay High Court

Opposing the bail application on Aryan Khan, slated for hearing later in the day, the NCB has said that attempts are being made to tamper with and detail the on-going investigation. Referring to the affidavit filed by NCB's crucial panch witness Prabhakar Sail the agency claimed that the affidavit was not filed on court but clandestinely distributed in the media. The...

Disclosing Details Of Ongoing Investigations To Media: Karnataka High Court Directs Police To Strictly Follow Govt Circular

The Karnataka High Court has directed police officers who are in-charge of investigations to strictly follow the circular issued by the State government and not to divulge information regarding criminal cases to the media before the investigation is completed. A division bench of Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum while disposing of a petition filed...

BREAKING : Supreme Court To Pronounce Judgment Tomorrow In Pegasus Spyware Case

The Supreme Court will pronounce its judgment tomorrow in a batch of petitions seeking court-monitored investigation in the Pegasus spyware case.On September 23, the Chief Justice of India had said that the Court was thinking of setting up a technical committee to look into the allegations of snooping of journalists, activists, politicians etc., using the Pegasus spyware developed by the...

Gujarat Riot Case- Plea By Zakia Jafri Challenging Clean Chit To Then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi And Others- [LIVE UPDATES]

Supreme Court has commenced the final hearing on a petition by Zakia Ahsan Jafri's plea challenging the SIT report giving clean chit to the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and other high functionaries in the Gujarat riots of 2002.A Bench comprising Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and CT Ravikumar is hearing the matter.Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal arguing for the...

Long Pendency Of NIA Cases In Special Courts: Delhi High Court Seeks Reasons For Delay In Trials By Dec 17

The Delhi High Court has granted further time to its Registry for filing response with regards to the pendency of NIA cases in designated special courts in the national capital along with the reason for delay in the trials in such cases.The development came from the court of Justice Mukta Gupta while hearing a plea filed by an accused Manzer Imam who was in custody from last 8 years in...

"Not Studied English As A Separate Subject": Madras HC Upholds NMC's Decision To Not Issue Eligibility Certificate To OCI Medical Student To Practice In India

The Madras High Court on Monday has refused to interfere with a decision taken by the National Medical Commission (NMC) to not allow a student who had pursued medical education in China to write the screening test, Foreign Medical Graduate Examination required to be cleared before commencing practice in India, because she had not studied English as a separate subject during her higher...

FIR Sought Against Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik Over His Statements Against NCB Officer Sameer Wankhede

A complaint has been filed before Mumbai Police seeking FIR against Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik alleging that his public statements against NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede amounts to obstruction of investigation in the Cruise Drug Case.According to the complaint sent via email to a police station in the western suburbs of the city and marked to all concerned in the hierarchy,...

Former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi To Represent Aryan Khan In Bombay High Court For Bail In Cruise Ship Drug Case

Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi, former Attorney General for India, will represent Aryan Khan in the Bombay High Court in his bail application in the cruise ship drug case.A single bench of Justice Nitin W Sambre is considering the bail application today.It was Senior Advocate Amit Desai who represented Khan before the Special NDPS Court, Mumbai, which denied him bail on October 19....

Lakhimpur Kheri Case : Supreme Court Directs UP Police To Provide Protection To Witnesses, Record Statements Of Relevant Witnesses under Sec 164 CrPC

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the State of Uttar Pradesh to provide protection to the witnesses of the Lakhimpur Kheri violence of October 3, which claimed the lives of 8 people, four of them being farmers protesters who were allegedly mowed down by the vehicles in the convoy of Ashish Mishra, the son of Union Minister and BJP MP Ajay Kumar Mishra.The Court also directed the State of...

Delhi Riots: Court Issues Show Cause Notice To IO, DCP Over Failure To Supply Photographs, CCTV Footage To Accused

A Delhi Court has issued show cause notice to the Investigating Officer and Deputy Commissioner of Police, North East over their failure to ensure supply of colored photographs as well as CCTV footages to all accused persons in cases concerning the Delhi riots.Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Arun Kumar Garg sought explanation from the two as to why appropriate action as per law...

Lakhimpur Kheri Violence: Supreme Court Hearing-Live Updates

Supreme Court to continue hearing today the PIL on the #Lakhmipurkheri incident.In the last hearing, Supreme Court observed that it was getting the impression that the Uttar Pradesh Police was "dragging its feet" in its investigation into the Lakhimpur Kheri violence of October 3, which claimed the lives of 8 people, four of them being farmers protesters who were allegedly mowed down by...

Policy Decision Interdicting Self-Financing Institutions From Commencing New Courses In State Legally Unsustainable: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court recently established that a policy decision taken by the State to interdict self-financing institutions from commencing new courses in the State cannot stand legal scrutiny and cannot be sustainedJustice Raja Vijayaraghavan held so while directing the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) to reconsider the request for a No Objection Certificate (NOC) submitted by a...