Court News Updates

The Allahabad High Court has rejected anticipatory bail to Hemant Kumar Saraswat, a sacked assistant teacher who got his job using a fake B Ed marksheet.

The Allahabad High Court has acquitted all the convicts in a Mathura triple murder case including one who had been awarded the death penalty. The Court expressed anguish with the "shoddy" manner in which the investigation was done.

The Allahabad High Court has recently held that an employee cannot be deprived of his right due to delay in filling the option for gratuity a year before retirement. The division bench of Justice Surya Prakash Kesarwani and Justice Piyush Agrawal passed this order while hearing the petition filed by one Muharpal Singh.

The Delhi High Court has allowed a petition seeking reimbursement of medical expenses filed by a retired Delhi Judicial Service officer in appeal against the claims rejection.

A single-judge bench of Allahabad High Court while hearing an application u/s 482 CrPC filed by Adeeb Azam Khan has stayed the criminal proceedings against Adeeb Azam Khan pending in the Special Court MP/MLA, Rampur.

The Bombay High Court recently granted liberty to the Commissioner of Police, Nagpur to take criminal action against those indulging in illegal activities of import, distribution and use of sub-stand...

The Bombay High Court at Aurangabad bench recently dismissed a criminal revision application filed by one Parmeshwar Dhage (accused/convict/applicant) convicted by a trial court for touching the feet of a woman in her sleep and ruled that it amounts to violation of modesty of a woman, which is punishable under Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code if any one touches any part of a woman without her consent.

The Gauhati High Court has directed the Deputy Commissioner of Kamrup district to issue ration cards within eight weeks as per the National Food Security Act, 2013 to families identified by para-legal volunteers and who fulfill conditions for such cards.

Allahabad High Court division bench while hearing a Criminal Appeal filed by Shamsher has asked the Director General of Police (DGP) of Uttar Pradesh why information relating to criminal history of a citizen is not in public domain and why it is password protected.

The Delhi High Court has rejected a suit filed against the book written by Syed Waseem Rizvi titled Muhammad which is said to contain provocative and agitational statements with respect to Prophet Mohammed, Islam and the Quran. The suit was filed by Qamar Hasnain and sought damages worth Rs 2,05,00,000 to make Rizvi stop from committing such acts in the future.