ACQUITTED ACCUSED

An Indian-American doctor has been arrested and charged with committing lewd acts on an 14-year-old minor onboard a flight from Honolulu to Boston in May 2022. The accused, an internal medicine and primary care doctor, is accused of exposing himself...

Allahabad High Court acquitted a man accused in a rape case, emphasizing that the burden of proof in sexual offences lies on both parties, not just the male. The accused was also charge-sheeted under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (preventi...

A Pakistani court on Monday acquitted jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and other top leaders of his party in two cases related to vandalism during a protest march in 2022 following his arrest in an alleged corruption case. The 71-year-old Pak...

Singh's lawyer Jitender Khurana said the court acquitted him and four others in the murder case. He said a division bench of Justice Sureshwar Thakur and Justice Lalit Batra pronounced the decision on the appeals filed by Singh and the four others w...

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Case: Gurmeet Ram Rahim was acquitted by the Punjab & Haryana High Court in the murder case of Ranjit Singh. The court, led by Justices Sureshwar Thakur and Lalit Batra, granted this verdict while accepting an appeal filed by the D...

A special court in Pune acquitted three main accused in the Narendra Dabholkar murder case after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) failed to establish their involvement. The court sentenced two shooters to life imprisonment and fined them ₹5...

Narendra Dabholkar was shot dead while on a morning walk on Omkareshwar Bridge, as the accused were opposed to his crusade against superstition, the prosecution said in its final arguments. ​Additional sessions judge A A Jadhav of the special court ...

The detailed verdict of the case is yet to come out. Thirty four-year old Mohammed Riyas Maulavi, a muezzin (person who proclaims the Islamic call to prayer) and madrassa teacher from nearby Choori was found murdered in his room in the mosque on Mar...

Saibaba, 54, is wheelchair-bound and has been lodged in Nagpur central jail for years. In May 2014, the former DU professor was arrested by the anti-Naxal operations unit of the Maharashtra Police accusing him of being the 'urban contact' of banned ...

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on Tuesday acquitted former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba in an alleged Maoist links case, noting the prosecution failed to prove the case against him. The court also set aside the life sentence imp...

Abdul Karim Tunda, a Pakistani terrorist, has been acquitted of the 1993 serial train blasts case under the Terrorist and Anti-disruptive Activities Act (TADA) in Ajmer. However, two of his co-accused, Irfan, alias Pappu, and Hameeduddin, have been ...

The CBI had accused Abdul Karim Tunda of being the mastermind behind the blasts on four trains on the first anniversary of the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition. The CBI had accused Tunda of being the mastermind behind the blasts on four trains on the fi...

The acquitted are Shakil, Habib Raza, Mohd Yamin, Usman, Shahid, Mohd Furkan and Mohd Irshad. The court dubbed the testimony of a police constable as unreliable and said that even the identity of the mob behind the incidents was not established as t...

Abdul Karim Tunda was acquitted by a special court in Rajasthan's Ajmer in the 1993 serial blasts case due to insufficient evidence provided by the prosecution. Tunda, a close associate of Dawood Ibrahim, was accused of orchestrating blasts in five ...

A TADA court in Ajmer acquitted the 1993 serial bomb blast main accused, Abdul Karim Tunda, on Feb 29, 2024. The 81-year-old Tunda, a close aide of wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, was accused of carrying out blasts in five trains in different citie...

Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong has been acquitted by a South Korean court of stock price manipulation and accounting fraud charges related to a 2015 merger. The ruling could ease Lee's legal troubles, coming less than two years after he w...

In 2023, notable court developments in Mumbai included the judicial custody of Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal in a loan fraud case, the granting of bail to two accused in the 2018 Elgar Parishad-Maoists links case, and actor Sooraj Pancholi's acqu...

Kyle Rittenhouse’s announcement of the book "Acquitted" has reignited the divisions on social media that characterized his trial. Some social media users even pointed out that the book is “not even worthy of being a doorstep”.

The Gujarat High Court has allowed the discharge plea of a former police official accused in the 2003 encounter of Sadiq Jamal, who was claimed to be an LeT operative. With this acquittal, all seven of the eight accused stand exonerated in the case....