Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court on Thursday stayed criminal proceedings against Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt at a court in Mau district of Uttar Pradesh where a case was lodged during the 2009 Lok Sabha elections accusing him of having delivered an "inflammatory" speech. The order was passed by Justice Bala Krishna Narayana on a petition filed by Dutt who had challenged the criminal proceedings initiated against him in pursuance of...
08:09 PM, May 03, 2012
Bangalore/Mumbai: The International Society for Krishna consciousness, better known as ISKCON, is in the throes of controversy. Members are battling a host of serious charges, the most recent ones includes fraud and criminal conspiracy. ISKCON, arguably India's biggest exporter of Lord Krishna to the western world, is struggling to keep its spiritual identity intact as scandal, corruption, and infighting threaten to tear its foundations apart. The ISKCON newsletter - with...
08:43 AM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has come down heavily on an Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) and the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) for acting in "haste" and "forgetting" to look into merits before summonses were issued in a criminal case. "The order of CMM summoning them (accused) is wholly illegal and unwarranted. Both the Additional Sessions Judge and the CMM in haste have forgotten to look at the merits of...
08:15 PM, Apr 12, 2012
Los Angeles: The makers of the viral "Kony 2012" video that drew world attention to a violent rebel campaign by fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony released a new film on Thursday, pushing back against criticism that their work oversimplified a long-running conflict. The video, shot in the same energetic and idealistic style as the viral hit, encourages viewers to see themselves as global citizens in a close-knit world that needs...
08:00 AM, Apr 06, 2012
New Delhi: After a marathon hearing spanning over a month, the Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on a bunch of petitions challenging the Delhi High Court verdict decriminalising gay sex among consenting adults in private. A bench of justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhaya reserved its verdict on a bunch of petitions by anti-gay right activists, social and religious organisations against the 2009 verdict of the high court,...
02:23 PM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre clarified its stand on homosexuality in the Supreme Court on Wednesday saying it accepts the Delhi High Court verdict that decriminalised consensual gay sex. Attorney General GE Vahanvati clarified the Centre's stand in court. "The Delhi High Court verdict decriminalising homosexuality is acceptable to us," Attorney General GE Vahanvati told the court. In fact the Centre said criminalising consensual gay sex in private was a violation...
12:12 PM, Mar 21, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The crime-prone areas in the city should be cautious now. For, a City crime spot map, having even the tiniest details of such areas, would be ready soon. In a bid to have a clear idea about the areas where crime is frequent and to prevent the minute lapses in nabbing criminals, the city cops have been engaged in preparing a map of the 20 police stations under the...
01:25 PM, Mar 19, 2012
New Delhi: Barring criminals from contesting and checking use of black money in elections top his reform agenda, Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi said on Friday. "Barring criminals from contesting and checking use of black money in elections are top reform proposals," said Quraishi while delivering a lecture here on poll reforms. He said the proposals are pending with the Centre for two decades and parliament has to decide on...
12:22 AM, Mar 10, 2012
New Delhi: A criminal complaint was filed against NCP leader Jitendra Awhad on Sunday in a Thane court for filing a false affidavit ahead of the 2009 elections and not declaring the ownership of his flat in the Adarsh Housing Society in his 2009 affidavit. According to the complainant, Praveen Wategaonkar, the CBI provided him details of flat owners of Adarsh during the hearing of his PIL against money laundering....
09:48 AM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Friday left its senior party leader Kripashankar Singh to fend for himself in the corruption case saying law will take its own course but remained non-committal on whether the controversial leader should be suspended from the party. "Law is taking and will take its own course. Congress is of the belief that there should be no obstruction in its working," party spokesperson Rashid Alvi told...
08:22 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Beijing: China is preparing to overhaul a key criminal law amid public confusion and some dread over whether the government is about to give police the legal authority to disappear people. At issue is an amendment to the criminal procedure law that would allow police to secretly detain suspects for months without informing their families. The effect would be to legalize the secret detentions police have increasingly been using against...
09:29 PM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: Former Maharashtra Congress chief Kripashankar Singh on Thursday moved Supreme Court seeking a stay against Bombay High Court order for his prosecution and attachment of properties in the disproportionate assets case. Earlier, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has initiated an inquiry into Kripashankar Singh's disproportionate assets after Mumbai Police lodged an FIR against him on Bombay High Court's orders. CNN-IBN has accessed details of 22 bank accounts of Kripashankar's...
08:30 PM, Mar 01, 2012
Mumbai: Congress MLA Kripashankar Singh had to step down from the post of Mumbai Pradesh Congress chief after an indictment from the Bombay High Court in disproportionate assets case. But for someone who began his life in Mumbai in 1973 as a vegetable seller, it's perhaps an incredible rags to riches tale. Kripashankar Singh and his family, whose reported source of income is a salary of Rs 45,000, now owns...
07:22 PM, Feb 29, 2012
New Delhi: In an embarrassing goof-up, the government on Thursday tied itself in knots in the Supreme Court by first disapproving decriminalisation of gay sex terming it as "highly immoral" and later taking a different line, drawing sharp criticism from the bench. In 2009, the gay community celebrated a landmark verdict by Delhi High Court for decriminilising gay sex in the country but three years later the government disapproved of...
10:15 PM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: The goof-up by the government over hearing on decriminalisation of homosexuality on Thursday has drawn sharp criticism from the Supreme Court. The Home Ministry first told the Supreme Court it opposes the decriminalisation of gay sex in the country by terming it as "highly immoral" and later took a different stand. The government sources said that the Additional Attorney General read out an earlier stand by the government ...
07:28 PM, Feb 23, 2012
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