NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the Punjab government‘s appeal against a high court ruling quashing its decision to expand the definition of the “NRI quota” for admissions in medical and dental courses. The apex court criticised the move, stating, “This fraud must come to an end.” Earlier on September 10, the Punjab…
NEW DELHI: In a big setback to Congress, Delhi high court on Friday dismissed its petitions challenging income tax department‘s proceedings to reassess its income, noting that the party had come to court at the “fag end” of the process and I-T department had collated “substantial and concrete” evidence warranting further scrutiny of its income….
MUMBAI: Citing a ballistic expert’s cogent evidence and holding that former Mumbai police officer Pradeep Sharma headed an “illegal squad”, Bombay high court on Tuesday convicted him in the 18-year-old fake encounter killing of Ramnarayan Gupta, alias Lakhan Bhaiya, an alleged Chhota Rajan gang member.Sentencing Sharma to life imprisonment, HC directed him to surrender in…
NEW DELHI: Delhi high court on Wednesday refused to intervene in tax recovery proceedings against Congress and said its problems are “to a large extent of its own making”. Declining to tinker with an order of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), a bench of Justices Yashwant Varma and Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav noted, “The petitioner…
The High Court on Wednesday issued a series of instructions, including undertaking of one-time exercise to identify all the structures that do not have rain water harvesting structures, to State government over preservation and regulation of usage of drinking water. A Bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Anil Kumar Jukanti issued the directions…
KOLKATA: Calcutta high court judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay resigned on Tuesday and announced his intention to join BJP on Thursday, stating that he had been in touch with the party for a week and would be with them “for now”, regardless of whether he receives a ticket to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections or not.Gangopadhyay…
CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana HC has commuted the death sentence of a man convicted of raping his minor daughter to life imprisonment, but highlighted that the gravity of snuffing out a life cannot be taken lightly.The case pertains to a 53-year-old man, who according to an FIR lodged at Sirsa women’s police station, assaulted his…
MUMBAI: Bombay HC has released on bail for two months an accused arrested under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, who is in an advanced stage of pregnancy. The bail has been granted so the undetrial may deliver her baby outside prison. “A prisoner is entitled to the dignity which the situation demands….
MUMBAI: Bombay high court has dismissed the state’s plea to cancel bail granted by a Kolhapur sessions court in 2017 to Samir Gaikwad, an accused in the murder of rationalist Govind Pansare, and passed strictures against the judge.“The course adopted by the learned sessions judge in entertaining and granting bail to the respondent (Gaikwad) –…
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa on Friday said that the Supreme Court would not “take over” the job of the election commission, as it took up the poll body‘s petition challenging the Peshawar High Court‘s decision to restore jailed former premier Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf party’s ‘bat’ election symbol. A three-member…
