The Chhattisgarh High Court at Bilaspur has dismissed a State appeal challenging the acquittal of two men accused in a case that arose under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and related IPC provisions. The judgment, delivered by a division bench of Justices Sanjay S. Agrawal and Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal on October 30,…
The High Court of Chhattisgarh, allowed a railway employee to withdraw his earlier notice for voluntary retirement, but held that because he took up a post-retirement engagement after the retirement order, he is not entitled to any consequential benefits. The Division Bench of Justices Sanjay K. Agrawal and Radhakishan Agrawal set aside both the Central…
The Chhattisgarh High Court, Division Bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Bibhu Datta Guru, on 27 October 2025 dismissed an appeal by Suresh Sarkar (also known as Chhotu) and affirmed his conviction for the murder of constable Ram Niwas Markam. The court confirmed the trial court’s findings under Sections 302 and 201 of…
The High Court of Chhattisgarh on October 10, 2025, granted regular bail to 31-year-old Chandan Utkel, who had been in custody since July 14, 2025, in a case arising from an alleged stabbing at a family courtyard in Rajnandgaon district. The court said the injuries were simple in nature, the charge sheet has been filed,…
Bench tells Bengaluru police not to harass Bhavish Aggarwal or Subrat Kumar Das while petitioners move to quash FIR in engineer K. Aravind’s suicide; court has sought responses from the State and the complainant. The Karnataka High Court has stepped into a sensitive matter involving OLA Electric after the company’s founder, Bhavish Aggarwal, and a…
झारखंड हाईकोर्ट महेश तिवारी अवमानना झारखंड हाईकोर्ट ने शुक्रवार को अधिवक्ता महेश तिवारी के खिलाफ स्वतः संज्ञान लेते हुए अवमानना की कार्यवाही शुरू कर दी। यह कार्रवाई तब हुई जब 16 अक्टूबर को न्यायमूर्ति राजेश कुमार की अदालत में तिवारी और जज के बीच हुई तीखी बहस का एक वीडियो सोशल मीडिया पर वायरल हुआ…
Election Commission on ADR Bihar voter roll case The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday told the Supreme Court that the approach of the NGO Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) was “communal,” after it alleged a “disproportionate exclusion of Muslims” in Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Appearing for the ECI, senior…
Supreme Court petition seeks Air India AI171 crash inquiry The 91-year-old father of late Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, along with the Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP), has approached the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored investigation into the June 12 crash of Air India flight AI171 in Ahmedabad, which claimed 260 lives. The petition requests the formation…
The Supreme Court has delivered a significant judgment cautioning trial courts and prosecutors against the casual practice of declaring witnesses hostile for minor inconsistencies. The Court, while upholding the conviction and life imprisonment of a man for kidnapping, raping, and criminally intimidating a minor girl belonging to a Scheduled Caste community, emphasized that mere acquaintance…
Supreme Court quashes SHUATS FIRs The Supreme Court on October 17 quashed several FIRs and the resulting criminal proceedings brought under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021, against the Vice Chancellor and other officials of Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj. A bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala…