A Mumbai Court last week convicted a 25-year-old businessman of sexually harassing a minor girl by calling her an "item."

The special public prosecutor had said that while the report said the sample was sodium carbonate, that cannot be a ground for discharging the accused from the case. In a recent order, a special court discharged a man from a drugs case after a forensic report showed that the seized... The post appeared first on .

The special public prosecutor had said that while the report said the sample was sodium carbonate, that cannot be a ground for discharging the accused from the case. In a recent order, a special court discharged a man from a drugs case after a forensic report showed that the seized... The post appeared first on .

The special public prosecutor had said that while the report said the sample was sodium carbonate, that cannot be a ground for discharging the accused from the case. In a recent order, a special court discharged a man from a drugs case after a forensic report showed that the seized... The post appeared first on .

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 9 (ANI): A special PMLA court in Mumbai on Thursday rejected the pleas filed by Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik and former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh seeking a day's bail to vote in the Rajya Sabha elections to be held on Friday.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 5 (ANI): Mumbai's Borivali Court on Thursday issued the release order of Independent MP Navneet Rana and her husband and MLA Ravi Rana, who were arrested after they declared that they would recite Hanuman Chalisa outside Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's residence.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 30 (ANI): Mumbai Sessions Court on Saturday granted anticipatory bail to advocate Jayshree Patil in the case relating to Maharashtra Transport Department workers' protest outside the residence of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 9 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kirit Somaiya on Saturday filed an anticipatory bail plea in the Mumbai Sessions Court after he was booked in a case related to the alleged misappropriation of funds collected to save aircraft carriers INS Vikrant from scrapping.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 22 (ANI): Mumbai's Andheri court has rejected Actor Kangana Ranaut's plea for permanent exemption from appearance in defamation case by lyricist Javed Akhtar against her.

Mumbai Feb 22 PTI A special court here has observed that the Enforcement Directorate ED has not taken an active approach to begin the trials in money laundering cases that are pending since a long time Special judge M G Deshpande had made the observation on February 16 while granting bail to Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor his wife Bindu businessman Gautam Thapar and seven others in a case pertaining to the sale of a property at a prime location in Delhi The detailed order was made available on Tuesday It is a fact that ever since this special court for the Prevention of Money Laundering Act PMLA cases has been established not a single such case has been disposed of by judgment The ED has not shown any active approach to begin the trials of the cases which have been pending since long the court noted in its order Further the judge said a PMLA case trial is in fact a trial of two cases It is a very big and lengthy trial as the trial case pertaining to a scheduled offence has to be conducted simultaneously with the trial of the PMLA case the court added The case against Kapoor pertains to allegations in the sale of a property situated on Amrita Shergill Marg in Delhi to a company owned by Kapoors wife Bindu for which a separate FIR had been registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI in Mumbai last year Later the ED had filed a money laundering case against Kapoor Bindu Gautam Thapar and seven others based on the CBIs FIR The judge in his order stated I strongly feel that at the relevant time ED has not exercised their power and arrested the accused In my opinion the accused is undertrial prisoner in a number of cases and there is no likelihood of his release in near future Therefore the question of his absconding does not arise the judge noted The court also ruled that no incident of any tempering pressurising the prosecution witness or attempt to abscond has been reported on the part of accused before the court The judge has made similar observations in bail order of the other accused The ED is probing the alleged transaction between Thapars Avantha Realty Kapoor and his wife and has filed a money laundering case after taking cognisance of the CBIs FIR The FIR claims that Kapoor the then MD and CEO of Yes Bank Limited had obtained illegal gratification in the form of a property belonging to Avantha Realty Ltd ARL at a prime location in Delhi at much less than the market rate after Thapars firm was given a loan as well as concessions in existing credit facilities by the lender The ED in its chargesheet has alleged that Kapoor connived with ARL to wrongfully gain or get transferred a property situated at a prime location in New Delhi to a firm named Bliss Abode which is owned by his wife Bindu In order to get the property Kapoor created a monthly lease-rent agreement between the two group companies of Avantha and got a loan of Rs 400 crore sanctioned from Yes Bank by getting mortgaged the said property to the bank it alleged The ED probe further revealed that by projecting the accounts of the said group of companies as stressed accounts or NPA accounts the said property was put up for sale by the bank When the account of ARL group company was on the verge of turning into NPA Bliss Abode beneficially owned by Kapoor offered Rs 378 crore for acquiring the said property The said property had been valued at Rs 550 crore the ED said The above stated property was further placed as a collateral security to IBHFL by companies owned by Bindu in order to get a loan of Rs 685 crore Thus the property which was fraudulently purchased for Rs 378 crore was further put on as a collateral security to get a loan of Rs 685 crore the probe agency said Kapoor and his family have benefited to the tune of Rs 307 crore from the proceeds of the crime generated from the fraudcriminal conspiracy it added Thapar is currently in judicial custody in Delhis Tihar jail after being arrested in August last year in a related case while Kapoor is lodged in Taloja jail in neighbouring Navi Mumbai after his arrest in the Yes Bank scam in March 2020 PTI AVI ARU ARU