New Delhi : A Delhi court on November 21 granted bail to student activist Gulfisha Fatima in a case related to the communal violence in north east Delhi in February. Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat granted bail to Ms. Fatima on furnishing a bail bond of ₹30,000 with one surety of like amount in the […]
Washington : Sri Srinivasan, a prominent Indian-American judge, has created history by becoming the first person of South Asian descent to lead a powerful federal circuit court considered next only to the US Supreme Court. Srinivasan, 52, became the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. An Obama appointee […]
New Dehli : Congress Lok Sabha MP Karti Chidambaram and his wife Srinidhi will move the Madras High Court in a tax evasion case, a day after their discharge petition was rejected by a special court, their counsel said on Wednesday. The matter relates to the alleged non-disclosure of Rs 1.35 crore received by Karti, […]
Mangaluru : Kannada writer Sarah Aboobacker has won a legal battle against the makers of the 2011 national award-winning film ‘Byari,’ which she claimed was based on her much-acclaimed novel ‘Chandragiriya Teeradalli.’ ‘Byari,’ the first film in Beary language, directed by K P Suveeran and produced by Altaf Hussain, had won the Swarna Kamal for […]
Mangaluru : The VI Additional District and Sessions Judge D.T. Puttarangaswamy has sentenced a 31-year-old married man to five months imprisonment and fined him ₹20,000 for cheating a 25-year-old woman. According to the Konaje police, Rajesh Poojary promised to marry the woman and had sex with her in 2015. When the woman asked him to […]
New Delhi: A Delhi court has awarded Rs 2.7 lakh maintenance to a woman who left a lucrative career in showbiz to be a housewife in 2000 and taken note of the uncertain nature of the film industry and the difficulties she may face in regaining a “foothold” in it. Additional Sessions Judge A K […]
Udupi: Seven families at 80-, village have charged that the district administration has harassed them in the process of providing RTC to the land which has mutation and registration. Speaking to media persons here on Friday, social activist Yogish Shet said that District and Sessions Court has issued show-cause notice to the deputy commissioner for […]
Mangaluru: In an incident reported, a few inmates of the district jail in the city attacked officials of the District Armed Reserve (DAR) as they were being escorted from court back to the jail on Thursday. The incident took place when they reached the gate of the jail premises. A heated argument broke out between […]
Mangaluru: The court has denied to grant permission for the narco test of prime accused of RTI activist Vinayaka Baliga murder case, Naresh Shenoy, on Friday. Baliga’s father Ramachandra Baliga had filed a plea in additional sessions court, seeking permission for the narco analysis of Naresh Shenoy, who is recently released on bail. After the […]
Bengaluru: A Coorg court will conduct hearings on October 19 in the sedition case filed against Kannadiga actor-turned-politician Ramya by a lawyer in Karnataka for praising people in Pakistan. Caught in a controversy over her remarks that “Pakistan is not hell, people there are just like us,” Ramya on Thursday stuck to her views and […]
