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NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has sought the Centre's stand on a plea to permit the mother of a woman from Kerala, who is facing the death penalty in Yemenfor the murder of a national, to travel to the country to save her daughter from gallows. Justice Subramonium Prasad asked the Centre's counsel to file a status report within two weeks and listed the matter for further hearing on November 16. The...

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Friday modified its 2015 order and prevented the ouster of close to 1,300 slum dwellers from an over six acre slum sprawl on land belonging to the Thane Mental hospital. The relief to the slum dwellers is subject the state paying a Rs 42 crore premium to the Mental Hospital as entailed under redevelopment schemes of the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) directed a...

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Friday said it was "appalled" to learn that Mahua Moitra's counsel contacted lawyer Jai Anant Dehadrai and tried to persuade him to withdraw his complaint against the TMC MP."I am really appalled. You are a person who is expected to maintain the highest professional standard. You have been in contact with defendant No.2 (advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai)," Justice Sachin...

KOLKATA: Charges under the Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act result in "automatic criminalisation", the Calcutta high court said on Wednesday even as it acquitted a man who was a minor when he entered into a relationship with a girl younger than him. The HC, which noticed during the hearing the constant presence of a woman and a baby, was told she was the survivor in the case and...

MUMBAI: Observing that no Indian girl will make false rape accusation as if she is found to be false, she would be looked at with contempt through out her life and particularly for unmarried girl, it will be difficult to find a suitable groom, a special POCSO court convicted and sentenced a 21-year-old man to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting his friend, a 16-year-old girl from his...

CHENNAI: The Madras high court on Monday reserved its order on the bail application moved by Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji. The minister was arrested on June 14 by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for alleged offence of money laundering under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Concluding the final hearing, Justice G Jayachandran reserved his orders. According to the minister,...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court, which has traditionally been pro-life, was split Wednesday over choosing between stopping the heart of an over 26-week-old healthy fetus and the choice of its carrier, a married woman, to terminate the pregnancy which is impermissible under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act.A bench of Justices Hima Kohli and B V Nagarathna, which on Monday had unanimously...

NEW DELHI/THANE: A man in Maharashtra's Thane district has been handed a five-year rigorous imprisonment sentence by a court for his involvement in physically assaulting his wife, which ultimately led to her death.Bikas Vishwanath Yadav (33) has been declared guilty by additional sessions judge Dr Rachna R Tehra. He has been convicted under Section 325 of the Indian Penal Code for voluntarily causing...

NEW DELHI: Pushed by the court to either clear the names sent for judgeship expeditiously or be ready for some unpalatable order, the Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that it cleared 70 names forwarded by high courts for judgeship and sent to the SC collegium and also took the decision to transfer 12 HC judges out of 26 recommended. It also said that the government would soon implement collegium...

THANE: A court has granted anticipatory bail to a man accused of attempting to murder a hotel owner in 2021, in Maharashtra's Thane. Additional Sessions Judge Premal S Vithalani, in an order issued on September 25 and made available on Sunday, stated that in the event of the arrest of the applicant/accused, Aakash Baban Rasal, for offenses punishable under Indian Penal Code sections 307 (attempt to...