25 February 2019


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Madras High Court Cancels Month-long Jail Term to AIDS Patient on Humanitarian Grounds - 05.03.2019

The petitioner, while working as secretary-in-charge of the Primary Agricultural Co-operative Bank in Vellore district in 1991, had misappropriated funds running into several lakhs of rupees.

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SC Dismisses Review Plea for Reinvestigation Into Mahatma Gandhi's Assassination - 04.03.2019

Mumbai-based researcher Pankaj Phadnis had filed a petition asking the apex court to peruse some books and a forensic report of the photographs of wounds on the body of Gandhi to decide the need for fresh probe into his killing.

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Ex-Big Boss Contestant Bobby Darling Seeks Divorce, Husband Questions Validity of Marriage - 04.03.2019

The case, filed by film and television personality, Bobby Darling, who was born as Pankaj Sharma, moved a family court in Bandra seeking divorce with her husband on the grounds of domestic violence.

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Muzaffarpur Shelter Home Case: CBI Tells Court Several Victims Testified Against Brajesh Thakur - 03.03.2019

CBI told the court that statements of 33 victims have been recorded and most of them have testified against Thakur, besides revealing that he used to bring people from outside for raping the girls.

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SC Commutes Man's Death Penalty to Life Term After Poems Written in Jail Prove Reformative - 03.03.2019

Dnyaneshwar Suresh Borkar's counsel had argued in the apex court that Borkar's conduct was very good in jail and he completed his studies in prison and tried to become a civilised person.

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Delhi HC Quashes FIR Against Couple for Child Labour, Asks to Plant 100 Trees Instead - 03.03.2019

The court noted that as an expression of contrition for causing unnecessary burden upon the administrative machinery engaged in the maintenance of law and order, the couple submitted they wanted to do some social work.

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Bombay High Court Questions Creation of Separate Category for Maratha Quota - 02.03.2019

On November 30, 2018, the Maharashtra Legislature passed a bill proposing 16 per cent reservation in education and government jobs for the Marathas, a declared socially and educationally backward class by the government.

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Islamabad High Court Dismisses Petition to Stop IAF Wing Commander's Release - 02.03.2019

The petitioner said the Indian pilot had violated the airspace of Pakistan to bomb the country and therefore he committed a crime against Pakistan and should face trial here.

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UK Minister Signs Extradition Order for Wanted Bookie Sanjeev Chawla - 02.03.2019

The UK Home Office confirmed that the minister had given the go-ahead for Chawla to be sent to India after Westminster Magistrates' Court had over-ruled its previous ruling earlier this year to find no bars to his extradition.

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Delhi Court Summons Jairam Ramesh in Defamation Plea Filed by Ajit Doval's Son - 02.03.2019

The Caravan had alleged in its article that Vivek Doval, 'runs a hedge fund in the Cayman Islands' which is 'an established tax haven'.

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