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Delhi Court Remands Swatantra Bhardwaj To 14 Days Judicial Custody In CJP Protester Assault Case

A Delhi Court on Monday remanded Swatantra Bhardwaj to 14 days of judicial custody in an alleged assault case relating to father of a teenage Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) activist during Jantar Mantar protest in July.Additional Sessions Judge Saurabh Pratap Singh Laler of Patiala House Courts passed the order after Bhardwaj was produced in Court on expiry of his one day of police custody.He...

Witnesses Must Be Treated As Courts Guests : Supreme Court Committee Holds Conference On Stock Witnesses Reforms

The committee constituted by the Supreme Court to address the concerns over the use of 'stock witnesses' held its South Zone Consultation in Bengaluru on September 5 and 6.At the valedictory session, Justice Vivek Agarwal (Judge, Madhya Pradesh High Court and Chairman of the Stock Witnesses Reforms Committee) cautioned that technological and administrative reforms alone would not be enough to...

Karnataka Administrative Tribunal Stays Suspension Of Govt Teacher For Attending RSS Event, Says No Prohibition In State Rules

The Karnataka State Administrative Tribunal has stayed the suspension of a government teacher who attended a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) function, ruling that the organisation is non-political and that no state rules prohibit officials from participating in its events.“In the instant case, the alleged act of the applicant was that he was participated in an event organized by...

Supreme Court Requests Calcutta HC To Decide Soon Trinamool Congress Plea Against Removal Of Board From Party Office

The Supreme Court today requested the Calcutta High Court to expeditiously decide a petition filed by the All India Trinamool Congress challenging the Kolkata Municipal Corporation's removal of billboards from the party's office in Kolkata.The bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana was hearing a Special Leave Petition filed by Trinamool...

Supreme Court Asks Vivo Executive To Get Chinese Consulate Guarantee On India-Return If Allowed To Travel To China

The Supreme Court today (September 7) granted one month to Guangwen Kuang, an executive of Vivo Mobile Communications, to approach the Chinese Consulate to furnish a guarantee that he would come back to India to face prosecution after visiting his ailing father in China. Kuang,who is facing prosecution under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, approached the Court after the Delhi High...

Former Supreme Court Judge Justice Krishna Murari Joins Vantaras New Governing Council

Former Supreme Court judge Justice Krishna Murari has joined the newly constituted Governing Council of Vantara, the animal welfare and conservation initiative launched by Reliance Industries and Reliance Foundation.Justice Murari, who served on the Supreme Court from 2019 until his retirement in 2023, was earlier Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and a judge of the Allahabad...

Supreme Court Suspends Sentence Of Naga Insurgent Hopeson Ningshen Considering 17 Years Of Jail Term

The Supreme Court today(September 7) suspended the sentence of Hopeson Ningshen, a former self-styled Lieutenant Colonel of the Naga insurgent group National Socialist Council-Isak Muivah of Nagaland (IM). Ningshen was sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2009 abduction and murder of three government officials in Manipur.A bench comprising Justice MM Sundresh and Justice PB Varale passed...