The Bombay high court (HC) last month pulled up chief minister and senior bureaucrats over the slow pace of investigation into the murder of rationalists Govind Pansare and Narendra Dabholkar. read more

Pragya’s lawyer had sought exemption from her appearance on various grounds including her health condition, her duties as a sitting MP and the distance between Mumbai and Bhopal read more

The court was hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Seema Singhal, a Delhi High Court advocate, who sought a CBI inquiry in the case. read more

The court said that because the man was listed on the birth certificate and had an “extremely close” relationship with the girl, he was the father and should have a say in whether she is taken to live in New Zealand. read more

The state TV says the 67-year-old Morsi was attending a session Monday in his trial on espionage charges when he blacked out and then died. His body was taken to a hospital, it said. read more

The state government had filed the applications under section 340 of the Code of Criminal Procedure demanding that a case should be registered under section 193 of the Indian Penal Code. read more

Besides Pragya Singh Thakur, the Bhopal MP, the other accused in 2008 Malegaon blasts case who have filed discharge applications are Lt Col Prasad Purohit and Sameer Kulkarni. read more

A team of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) accompanied by police, including female officials, arrested the Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman hours after the Islamabad High Court rejected his bail plea. read more

Next hearing on Monday; Special court tells state to make arrangements to video record the trial read more

The accused, Hema Ahuja, Bhakti Meher and Ankita Khandelwal, broke down in the court saying they cannot stay in jail anymore after the court said it would hear arguments on their bail applications on June 17. read more

Thakur Monday filed an application through her advocate seeking exemption from appearance for one day citing ill health, which was accepted by special NIA Judge VS Padalkar. read more

After the incident, the state amended COTPA and imposed a blanket ban on running hookah bars in any place and also laid down a punishment of imprisonment up to three years, making serving of hookah a cognisable offence. read more

Additional sessions judge Pawan Kumar Jain has also asked the special public prosecutor for state Rajiv Mohan and amicus curiae Vrinda Grover to apprise the court about the procedure provided in Code for Criminal Procedure (CrPC) for ordering execution... read more

On September 18, last year the police team headed by inspector Manoj Verma had shot dead gangster Bhudev Singh alias Bhanwar Manesar in a cross firing, while Ravinder, who was his aide, had managed to escape from the spot. read more

Shamdai Arjun was convicted last month for strangling her nine-year-old stepdaughter to death in a bathtub. read more