Kochi (Kerala) [India], July 29 (ANI): Kerala High Court on Friday asked for the status report of the Evidence Tampering case filed against Kerala Transport Minister Antony Raju from the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court of Nedumangad in the Thiruvananthapuram district.

New Delhi [India], July 22 (ANI): The Delhi High Court recently issued show cause notice to an advocate for contempt of court for raising allegations against a Judge of the Trial Court and High Court as well.

New Delhi [India], May 27 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notice to Delhi Police on a bail petition moved by an accused namely Babuddin arrested under stringent sections of the IPC and arms act in relation to Jahangirpuri violence.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 15 (ANI): The Bombay High Court has observed that kissing would not prima facie constitute offence under section 377 (unnatural sex) of the Indian Penal Code while granting bail to an accused of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

New Delhi [India], March 14 (ANI): The Supreme Court has issued a notice to a wife on the husband's plea seeking divorce on the ground that he has been cheated as the medical history of his spouse did not reveal she was not a 'female'.

New Delhi Jan 20 PTI In a significant verdict the Supreme Court on Thursday said the daughters of a male Hindu dying intestate would be entitled to inherit the self-acquired and other properties obtained in the partition by the father and get preference over other collateral members of the familyThe judgement which came on an appeal against the Madras High Court verdict dealt with the property rights of Hindu women and widows under the Hindu Succession Act If a property of a male Hindu dying intestate without a will is a self-acquired property or obtained in the partition of a coparcenary or a family property the same would devolve by inheritance and not by survivorship and a daughter of such a male Hindu would be entitled to inherit such property in preference to other collaterals such as sonsdaughters of brothers of deceased father a bench of justices S Abdul Nazeer and Krishna Murari said The bench was dealing with the legal issue concerning the right of the daughter to inherit the self-acquired property of her father in the absence of any other legal heir Justice Murari writing the 51-page judgment for the bench also dealt with the question of whether such property will devolve on to the daughter upon the death of her father who died without a will by inheritance or shall devolve on to fathers brothers son by survivorship Right of a widow or daughter to inherit the self-acquired property or share received in the partition of a coparcenary property of a Hindu male dying intestate is well recognized not only under the old customary Hindu Law but also by various judicial pronouncements the verdict said Referring to the legal provision it said the legislative intent was to remedy the limitation of a Hindu woman who could not claim an absolute interest in the properties inherited by her but only had a life interest in the estate so inherited Section 14 I converted all limited estates owned by women into absolute estates and the succession of these properties in the absence of a will or testament would take place in consonance with Section 15 of the Hindu Succession Act 1956 it said If a female Hindu dies intestate without leaving any issue then the property inherited by her from her father or mother would go to the heirs of her father whereas the property inherited from her husband or father-in-law would go to the heirs of the husband it said The basic aim of the legislature in enacting Section 152 of the Hindu Succession Act is to ensure that inherited property of a female Hindu dying issueless and intestate goes back to the source it said Dealing with the facts of the case the bench set aside the trial court and the high courts findings dismissing the partition suit of the daughters The apex court said since the property in question was admittedly the self-acquired property of a father despite the family being in a state of jointness upon his death intestate his sole surviving daughter will inherit the same by inheritance and the property shall not devolve by survivorship Thus the impugned judgement and decree dated March 01 1994 passed by the Trial Court and confirmed by the High Court vide judgment and order dated January 21 2009 are not liable to be sustained and are hereby set aside it said PTI SJK SJK RKS RKS

New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has granted bail to two directors, allegedly involved in the 'Hello Taxi' case, a multi-victim ponzi scheme that duped hundreds of innocent people who invested money in the firm.

New Delhi Nov 17 PTI A Delhi Sessions Court has upheld an order convicting a man for causing permanent damage to a persons eye by negligently lighting a firecracker on Diwali in November 2013 and sent him to jail to serve the six-month-long sentence The complainant had alleged that convict Naveen Kumar lit a Diwali Rocket in a rash and negligent manner and kicked the bottle in which the firecracker was kept as a result of which it hit him in the right eye and caused permanent privation of the eyesightAdditional Sessions Judge Pooran Chand upheld the 2019 judgement of a Magistrate handing out a six-month jail term to Kumar for committing offences under Sections 286 negligent conduct concerning an explosive substance and 338 causing grievous hurt by act endangering life of IPC The accused had appealed the 2019 order before the sessions court on the ground that the trial court passed the judgement on sentence on conjectures and surmises without following the principle of natural justice He further claimed that the investigating officer IO failed to present the site plan of the spot where the alleged incident took place and there were major contradictions in the testimonies of two prosecution witnesses Dismissing the appeal the judge ordered I am of the considered opinion that Trial Court has committed no error whatsoever in holding the appellant guilty of committing the offences and awarding the sentence to the appellant Resultantly the appeal being devoid of merit is accordingly dismissed Appellant is taken into custody and sent to jail to serve the sentence the court added in an order dated November 16 The incident took place on November 3 2013 at 9 pm at Delhis Nilothi area when the complainant stood outside his houseFour-five houses ahead of the complainants house the convict in a rash and negligent manner lit a Diwali Rocket and kicked the bottle as a result of which it suddenly hit his right eye the court noted in the order This injury caused permanent privation of the sight of the right eye Initially the complainant did not realize that it was a serious injury and hence did not file any complaint however later on when the problem in his right eye aggravated he filed the complaint on November 9 it further stated PTI AAK RKS RKS

New Delhi [India], November 15 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Monday granted interim protection from coercive action to an accused Sathish Babu Sana in a corruption case, subject to his joining the probe in the matter as and when required.

Bengaluru : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday dismissed the Congress party’s allegations on the Bitcoin issue cover-up, saying there was no scam. The Bengaluru Police too refuted the charges of foul play in the investigation and cover-up exercises. “There has been absolutely no scam of whatsoever nature or dimension it could be. Therefore any questions of having any actors in this scam is a perverted imagination. However, new actors have emerged making mountain out of a mole, and making baseless allegations, based on distorted facts of the case,” BJP’s Karnataka unit spokesperson Ganesh Karnik said in a statement.