Abhishek Angad

Ramani was the first to name Akbar in a Twitter post October 8, following which over ten women also levelled sexual harassment allegations against him. In his statement Sunday, Akbar had named four other women who had accused him but filed the criminal defamation complaint only against Ramani.

CMM Khurana said that in the status report, the IO did not mention why the assured return on the investment was not paid to the complainant as agreed.

The appeal was filed by the complainat Ranjan Samtan after a magisterial court had acquitted the accused for the lack of evidence. The state did not go for an appeal as it did not find any infirmity in the magesterial court judgment.

The bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V Kameswar Rao said that access to healthcare is every citizen’s right under Article 21 of the Constitution — protection of life and personal liberty. 

The court pulled up the Delhi Police for connecting “two innocents” with the crime in a “filmsy thread”, and acquitted the two accused.

Court records state that two employees of Bharat Bijli Limited, Pramod Kushwaha and Indermani Sharma, were deputed to repair a defective lift.

Delhi High Court Friday overturned the trial court's conviction of former TV host Suhaib Ilyasi.

The Delhi High Court had set up the committee and asked it to produce three girls from the ashram, after an NGO informed it that several minors were allegedly being illegally confined at the premises.

The Professor was assaulted in August after he shared a Facebook post critical of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Kumar is now in Delhi and undergoing treatment at AIIMS.

The farmers set up temporary ‘shelters’, spreading tarpaulin sheets on the road for rest. Some were engaged in cooking on small stoves, while others played cards to kill time. And some just hummed along to folk songs.

With 45 court hearings since the case was registered, the trial is yet to begin as the city court is still hearing arguments on charges against the accused.

The alleged assault took place on the intervening night of February 19-20 at the CM’s residence, when Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash was called for a meeting. A case was registered on Prakash’s complaint.

In another development, Odisha Assembly Speaker Pradeep Amat approved constitution of a special committee to probe if Iyer-Mitra’s alleged derogatory remarks on MLAs amount to a breach of privilege.

Mahila Courts are set up specially to deal with cases specific to offences against women. Delhi has 25 functional Mahila Courts — which are magisterial courts.

Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash alleged that he was assaulted by AAP leaders on February 20 in CM's camp office when he had gone there for a meeting. Arvind Kejriwal and other AAP leaders have been summoned on October 25

“The interest of justice requires that they (Prakash and others) be afforded a hearing in the present revision petition on the aspect raised before the court. Issue notice to all respondents,” the order said.

The court has fixed October 6 as the next date of hearing. Besides Lalu and his family, ED has named the former CM's party colleague and former Union minister Prem Chand Gupta and his wife Sarla Gupta and Lara Projects in the chargesheet.

Delhi’s 10 child welfare committees, tasked with rehabilitating 10,000 lost or rescued children every year, are often pulled up by city’s courts. But with limited autonomy, insufficient training for its members and frequent jurisdictional tussles, the road ahead remains uphill. Abhishek Angad reports:

Additional Sessions Judge Ashish Aggarwal said the prosecution failed to demonstrate that the accused had indulged in “continuing unlawful activity”, and the “approval” to prosecute the accused suffers from “non-application of mind”.