New York: A hotel maid's sexual assault lawsuit against Dominique Strauss-Kahn can go forward to trial, a judge ruled on Tuesday, rebuffing the former International Monetary Fund leader's diplomatic-immunity claim. Bronx state Supreme Court Justice Douglas McKeon's ruling kept alive the civil case that emerged from a May 2011 hotel-room encounter that also spurred now-dismissed criminal charges against Strauss-Kahn, then a French presidential hopeful. The episode was the first in...
08:14 PM, May 01, 2012
Bangalore: The Special Court trying the wealth case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday rejected the application of her aide and co-accused Sasikala Natarajan, seeking various documents filed by the prosecution but not marked as exhibits in court. Special Court judge BM Mallikarjunaiah rejected the application filed by C Manishankhar and adjourned the case to April 12 for further recording of the statement of Sasikala under section 313...
07:53 PM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday quashed criminal proceedings against Yahoo India, which was summoned along with 20 other websites to face trial for allegedly hosting objectionable content on their web pages. "The summons issued against Yahoo India is set aside," Justice Suresh Kait said while allowing the plea of the website that the lower court wrongly issued the process against it, without attributing any specific role to...
06:35 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: The counsel for the Norway NRI couple fighting for its children's custody has said that it may take another six weeks before Norway decides to send the children with their uncle to India. "Next hearing is on March 23," said Sven Svendson, the couple's lawyer. "We will get the decision from court. Hopefully, the children will be able to return to India after the court hearing." He added,...
04:27 PM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission has postponed to Monday the hearing in the case against Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma for violation of model code of conduct over his minorities sub-quota remarks following a request from the complainant. The Commission on Monday had granted personal hearing to Verma on February 24 to explain his minorities sub-quota remarks for which the poll body had slapped a notice on him. Sources in...
08:50 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Bangalore: A Bangalore court on Saturday adjourned Sasikala Natarajan's hearing in the disproportionate assests case involving her former chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minsiter J Jayalalithaa till February 23. The former aide of the CM broke down in court during her questioning. This was the first time she was being questioned in the disproportionate assets case. Sasikala claimed that Jayalalithaa was not involved in the case. "Jayalalithaa is not involved...
06:01 PM, Feb 18, 2012
New Delhi: Online search engine Yahoo India's plea challenging the summons issued to it by a magistrate for allegedly allowing objectionable content on its site, will come up for hearing at the Delhi High Court on Friday. The High Court has also sought a response from the Delhi Police in the matter. A lower court had on December 23 issued summons to 21 websites, including Google and Facebook, for allegedly...
08:53 AM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Ghaziabad court hearing the Aarushi murder case on Saturday adjourned the hearing till February 29. Dr Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, the prime accused in the murder of their 14-year-old daughter's murder, did not attend the hearing. Their counsel, Mr Tamta, said that his clients feared a threat to their lives. However, the CBI argued that they should have been present during the hearing as the apex court...
10:48 AM, Feb 04, 2012
New Delhi: A Mumbai sessions court will resume its hearing of Sadhvi Pragya Thakur's bail plea on Saturday. Thakur is the prime accused in the 2006 Malegaon bomb blast case. Thakur who has been denied bail thrice claims she's been falsely implicated in the matter. Sadhvi Pragya has sought bail on the grounds that no 'specific role' in the blast has been attributed to her. In her plea, she also...
06:47 AM, Feb 04, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court will hear arguments taking cognizance of the chargesheet filed by National Investigative Agency (NIA) against American Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative David Headley and 8 others including JuD chief Hafiz Mohd Saeed and Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi on Saturday. Headley and others are charged with planning and executing terror strikes in India, including the 26/11 Mumbai attack. Headley entered into plea bargain with the United States without taking...
08:47 AM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: The appeals hearing on the one-year ban on India's four top quarter-milers, including Asian Games double gold medalist Ashwini Akkunji, before a National Anti-Doping Agency panel was adjourned on Wednesday for January 27. The NADA Appeals panel, headed by Justice (retd) CK Mahajan, fixed January 27 as the date for hearing after the apex anti-doping agency sought more time to study the appeals. Akkunji, Sini Jose, Tiana Mary...
08:29 PM, Jan 18, 2012
New Delhi: In a setback to sugar mill owners on Tuesday, the Supreme Court directed private mill owners to pay approximately Rs 1000 crores to UP sugarcane farmers. The state government had fixed a particular price for sugarcane farmers a few years back, because of which a backlog of nearly one thousand crore rupees turned up. The matter was challenged in court. VM Singh, petitioner in the Supreme Court, said...
01:28 PM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court is likely Tuesday to pronounce its verdict on a plea of Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy that a paper trail be incorporated to record the votes cast through electronic voting machine (EVMs) or return to the old system of paper ballots. A bench of Acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, which had reserved its verdict, is expected to pronounce the...
08:09 AM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: Research in Motion (RIM), the Canada-based Blackberry phone service provider, has reportedly refused to release the records of phone calls and text messages between Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz and former Pakistan Ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani, both embroiled in the raging memogate scandal rocking the country. The judicial commission investigating the scandal had asked the government to send a formal request to RIM through the Canadian High...
10:42 AM, Jan 16, 2012
New Delhi: The bail pleas of former Union Minister Sukhram, whose interim bail is expiring on January 16 in a 1993 telecom scam, and two others will be taken up in the Supreme Court on Monday. A bench headed by Justice P Sathasivam, would also hear the bail plea of the veteran politician's co-accused former bureaucrat Runu Ghosh and Hyderabad-based businessman P Rama Rao. The bench had on January 9...
11:41 AM, Jan 15, 2012
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