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BMC chief issues guidelines for handling legal cases, check details

BMC chief issues guidelines for handling legal cases, check details

Mumbai civic chief Bhushan Gagrani highlighted the importance of prompt and accurate handling of all judicial cases that are filed by or against the BMC

07 November,2024 05:41 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Delhi court awards life sentence to woman for smothering to death two daughters

Delhi court awards life sentence to woman for smothering to death two daughters

The Tis Hazari court in Delhi has awarded life sentence to a 32-year-old woman for smothering to death her two minor daughters in 2018. The court termed the crime a 'cold-blooded murder'

04 September,2024 05:24 PM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
Is Maharashtra ready for e-courts?

Is Maharashtra ready for e-courts?

Upskilling officers of the law and courts, boosting infrastructure could be challenges for new law regime, say experts

02 July,2024 07:41 AM IST | Mumbai | Vinod Kumar Menon
No need to bring slaughterhouses, meat processing units under EIA: Centre

No need to bring slaughterhouses, meat processing units under EIA: Centre

Requisite guidelines/safeguards are already in place to regulate the slaughterhouses /processing units from an environmental perspective, the union ministry said

18 March,2024 03:28 PM IST | New Delhi | PTI
Adulterous spouse is not equivalent to incompetent parent: HC

Adulterous spouse is not equivalent to incompetent parent: HC

An extramarital affair of a person cannot be the sole determining factor to deny them custody of a child, the Delhi High Court has ruled. HC said the matters may be co-related but they are always 'mutually exclusive'

03 February,2024 07:31 PM IST | New Delhi | PTI
Dera Sacha Sauda chief and rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim gets 50-day parole

Dera Sacha Sauda chief and rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim gets 50-day parole

The parole comes just two months after his latest furlough. On November 21 last year after he was granted a 21-day furlough - his third temporary release from jail in 2023. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is serving a jail term of 20-years for raping two of his women followers

19 January,2024 04:26 PM IST | Chandigarh | mid-day online correspondent
Delhi Police opposes bail plea of accused Neelam Azad; Court reserves order

Delhi Police opposes bail plea of accused Neelam Azad; Court reserves order

The Delhi Police on Tuesday opposed the bail plea of accused Neelam Azad, arrested in the Parliament Security Breach case and stated that the material, evidence and other documentary evidence show her complicity in the offence and thus, disentitle her to be released on bail

16 January,2024 04:01 PM IST | New Delhi | ANI
Merely downloading and watching child porn is not an offence: High Court

Merely downloading and watching child porn is not an offence: High Court

Madras High court said that merely watching and downloading child pornography is not an offence either under the POSCO Act or Information Technology Act. The court, however, expressed concern over Generation Z watching pornography

13 January,2024 12:35 PM IST | Chennai | mid-day online correspondent
MP HC allows termination of teenage rape victim's pregnancy

MP HC allows termination of teenage rape victim's pregnancy

The high court allowed the minor victim's plea seeking termination of her pregnancy. It also directed her father to file an affidavit before Chief Judicial Magistrate mentioning that she was subjected to rape and has filed a petition to terminate pregnancy

10 January,2024 02:29 PM IST | Jabalpur | PTI
Madras High Court denies Mansoor from filing defamation case against Trisha

Madras High Court denies Mansoor from filing defamation case against Trisha

'Leo' actor Mansoor Ali Khan had filed a defamation case against Trisha after she reprimanded him for his derogatory comments against her. The court has denied the lawsuit

23 December,2023 09:06 AM IST | Chennai | mid-day online correspondent

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