Category: LEGAL NEWS

The Delhi High Court today granted bail to AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan in the Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash assault case. Justice Mukta Gupta granted relief to the Okhla MLA, who was arrested on February 21, with certain conditions as imposed on AAP legislator Prakash Jarwal earlier. “The petitioner (Khan) has served an incarceration of more than 20 days and no further custodial interrogation is required. So the petitioner is released on bail,” the court said. During the hearing, the Delhi Police counsel submitted a status report stating that Khan was…

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The CBI today produced Karti Chidambaram, former Union minister P Chidambaram’s son, in a Delhi court after his three-day police custody in the INX Media corruption case expired and sought 15 days judicial custody. Karti Chidambaram was produced in the court of Special Judge Sunil Rana, before whom CBI counsel V K Sharma moved an application for judicial custody of the senior Congress leader’s son. However, Karti Chidambaram’s counsel moved the court to hear his bail plea today itself which was otherwise listed for March 15. He also sought a…

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The Delhi High Court has directed government company DSIIDC to pay Rs 10 lakh compensation each to the families of two manual scavengers who died while cleaning a sewer in Bawana Industrial Area here. The court said Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd (DSIIDC), which is responsible for developing and providing industrial infrastructure facilities to the entrepreneurs here, should have taken necessary steps to ensure that sewers are not opened for cleaning purposes by anyone. Justice V Kameswar Rao said that any mishap would suggest a lapse on…

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The Madras High Court has directed the Economic Offences (EO) Wing of the Central Crime Branch to take steps for identifying immovable properties in the name of executives of HBN Dairies and Allied Limited, which is alleged to have cheated around 20 lakh depositors of Rs 1,137 crore. Justice M S Ramesh passed the order on a criminal original petition filed by one Immanuel, seeking an investigation into the matter in a reasonable time frame as fixed by the court. In the order, the judge said, “The Economic Offences wing…

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A city court today extended by 14 days the judicial custody of AAP MLAs Amanatullah Khan and Prakash Jarwal, arrested in the case of alleged assault on Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash. Metropolitan Magistrate Shefali Barnala Tandon sent the MLAs, who were produced before the court on expiry of their judicial remand, to Mandoli jail here till March 22. According to court sources, the matter would next be heard in a Patiala House Court, following the Delhi High Court order designating two special courts in the Patiala House Court complex…

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The Delhi High Court today questioned the law and order situation in the capital while hearing the bail plea of one of the two AAP MLAs, arrested for allegedly assaulting Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash. The court said it was concerned that if “a person” can be assaulted in the presence of the Delhi chief minister and the deputy chief minister, what will happen at other places. “At a place where the chief minister is sitting, a person is assaulted. What is the law and order situation. This is happening in…

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The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) here has awarded a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the parents of a class 3 student who was mowed down by a speeding truck in 2016. MACT member and district judge K D Vadane ordered the truck owner and the vehicle’s insurer to jointly and severally make the payment to the boy’s parents along with an interest at 8 per cent per annum from the date of filing of the claim. The claimants, Sunil Sukhdeo Rathod (35) and his wife Bharthi Sunil Rathod…

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The Centre today told the Supreme Court that the selection committee for appointing a Lokpal met on March 1 and decided to first fill up the vacancy of an eminent jurist in the panel. Attorney General K K Venugopal told a bench comprising Justices Ranjan Gogoi and R Banumathi that the vacancy of an eminent jurist in the committee, which also includes the prime minister, would be done at the earliest. Senior advocate P P Rao was appointed as an eminent jurist in the panel but the post became vacant…

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The CBI today produced Karti Chidambaram, arrested in the INX Media corruption case, before a Delhi court and sought his custody for nine more days. Special Judge Sunil Rana said the court will hear the matter at 2 pm today as Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Tushar Mehta, who had appeared before it on the last hearing, was not available for arguments on behalf of the CBI. The probe agency today submitted before the court certain documents in a sealed cover related to the probe in the case over the last…

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