Category: LEGAL NEWS

New Delhi, Jul 11 (DIN NEWS) A Delhi court today awarded seven-year rigorous imprisonment to retired Captain Salam Singh Rathore in an offshoot of the 2006 Navy War Room leak case, saying he did not deserve leniency as he has committed an offence against national security. Special CBI Judge S K Aggarwal handed down the jail term to Rathore for the offence of spying under the Official Secrets Act, saying the documents found in his possession belonged to Defence Ministry and were “directly or indirectly useful to the enemy in…

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Chennai, Jul 11 (DIN NEWS) Coming down heavily on the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR and CE) Department over idol thefts in Tamil Nadu, the Madras High Court today said if such a situation continued, it would be constrained to hand over all the related cases to the CBI. Justice R Mahadevan said this while hearing a batch of petitions with regard to idol thefts in the state. The judge, during the course of the hearing, took serious view of the news published in some newspapers with regard to…

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The Supreme Court today asked the Centre and the Delhi government to clarify by tomorrow who could be held responsible for clearing the “mountain loads of garbage” in the national capital — those reporting to LG Anil Baijal or to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The top court’s direction came days after its verdict on the power tussle between the Lieutenant Governor and the Aam Aadmi Party government in which it held that the LG has no independent power to take decisions and is bound by the elected government’s aid and…

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The Madras High Court today stayed an order directing IIT-Kanpur to redo the rank list of JEE Advanced exam held in May, giving preference to candidates who followed original instructions given by the institute and not based on the clarification issued afterwards.When an appeal filed by IIT-Kanpur came up, a division bench of Justices Huluvadi G Ramesh and Dhandapani held that the July 2 order of the single judge was “totally unwarranted” since the evaluation of the exam was already done.’  The bench then posted the matter after three weeks.…

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The Madras High Court today rejected a plea of the closed Sterlite copper plant in Tuticorin for restoring power supply to the unit to deal with an acid leak, observing that the government authorities were already carrying out the work on removal of the chemicals properly.   Justices C T Selvam and A M Basheer Ahamed of the Madurai Bench dismissed the petition by the Vedanta group company, seeking temporary restoration of power supply for the unit, which has been disconnected after the government ordered its permanent closure in May…

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Madurai, Jul 9 (DIN NEWS) The Madras High Court today rejected a plea of the closed Sterlite copper plant in Tuticorin for restoring power supply to the unit to deal with an acid leak, observing that the government authorities were already carrying out the work on removal of the chemicals properly. Justices C T Selvam and A M Basheer Ahamed of the Madurai Bench dismissed the petition by the Vedanta group company, seeking temporary restoration of power supply for the unit, which has been disconnected after the government ordered its…

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New Delhi, Jul 9 (DIN NEWS) The Supreme Court today sought the response of a BJP leader on a plea by Ahmed Patel seeking a stay of proceedings in the Gujarat High Court which is hearing a petition challenging the senior Congress leader’s election to the Rajya Sabha. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, however, allowed the Gujarat High Court to frame the issues to be decided by it on the petition filed by BJP leader Balwantsinh Rajput challenging Patel’s election to the Upper House. Rajput had lost…

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Jaipur, Jul 8 (DIN NEWS) A special court here has issued bailable warrants against Ravi Krishna, Director of Ziqitza Health Care Pvt Ltd and son of ex-Union minister Vayalar Ravi, and two others in connection with alleged corruption in the running ambulance services in Rajasthan. The CBI had named Krishna, Mumbai-based company’s CEO Sweta Mangal and employee Amit Antony Alex and the Ziqitza Health Care as accused in the charge sheet filed on June 4, the officials had said. “The CBI court has now summoned all the named accused and…

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Chitradurga(K’taka), July 8 (DIN NEWS) A court here has sentenced a 75-year-old man to life imprisonment for killing his wife, just 11 days after the crime took place. Chitradurga District and Sessions Court Judge S B Vastramutt yesterday sentenced Parameshwaraswamy to life and slapped a fine of Rs 5,000 on him. According to prosecution, the man had killed his 63-year-old wife, Puttamma, suspecting her fidelity, in Valse village on June 27. “This is the first time in Karnataka that a man has been convicted for murder just 11 days after…

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