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A court in Pakistan acquitted former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife on Saturday of charges related to unlawful marriage, according to his lawyer, Naeem Panjutha. The ruling was made in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.

Former DMK leader Jaffer Sadiq has been granted bail in a drug case by a Delhi court but remains in custody for a money laundering case. The court ordered an LOC against him and imposed strict conditions. Sadiq's alleged involvement in an internatio...

The Maharashtra government has proposed the Maharashtra Special Public Security Act, 2024, enabling the state to designate groups as illegal. The bill outlines penalties for involvement in unlawful activities and allows authorities to seize property...

A New Delhi court issued a production warrant for jailed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for July 12 appearance in the Delhi excise policy scam. Judge Kaveri Baweja acknowledged ED's seventh chargesheet against Kejriwal and AAP. The eighth names Vino...

Tis Hazari court extended Bibhav Kumar's custody till July 16 in Swati Maliwal assault case. Kejriwal's aide, produced via video conferencing. Delhi High Court, Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, found the plea maintainable and issued a notice seeking ci...

Chandrasekhar was arrested in the case in May 2015 under Indian Penal Code and Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors (in Financial Establishments) Act for allegedly floating a bogus firm called 'Lion Oak Indian' and launching various inve...

​​Under the bill, the offences related to the conduct of competitive examinations shall be cognisable, non-bailable and non-compoundable. According to the bill, those found indulging in unfair means and offences in the conduct of competitive examina...

The new criminal laws, known as BNSS, aim to address jail overcrowding by offering leniency to first-time offenders. Bail conditions have been revised, with reduced maximum detention periods. Jail superintendents now have the responsibility to assis...

During his stay in the national capital, neither Singh nor his relatives or family members can make a statement in any form of media, according to the conditions laid down in his parole order issued by the district magistrate of Punjab's Amritsar fr...

Andrew Jury, the MAFS NZ star, has died at a prison in New Zealand at the age of 33 years. The cause of death has been cited by jail official and police of that country.

A Pakistan district court rejected the appeals of former prime minister Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi to suspend their sentences in the illegal marriage case, known as the Iddat case. They were sentenced to seven years in jail and fined Rs 5...

The former 'Majestic' star, now imprisoned in Parappana Agrahara jail in Bengaluru for orchestrating the brutal murder of a fan named Renuka Swamy, had been incarcerated at the same facility 13 years earlier for assaulting his wife, Vijayalakshmi.

Seema Misra, a former Post Office manager wrongly jailed for theft over faulty software, has rejected the apology from the engineer whose evidence convicted her. Misra's case, overturned in 2021, highlights the faulty Horizon IT system scandal. Apol...

Hinduja family members jal: A Swiss criminal court has sentenced four members of the wealthy Hinduja family to between four and 4 1/2 years in prison for exploiting their domestic workers. The court, however, dismissed more severe charges of human t...

The Election Commission declared the results of the Lok Sabha polls on Tuesday. While radical Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh won Punjab's Khadoor Sahib seat, terror financing accused Sheikh Abdul Rashid, also known as Engineer Rashid, emerged victorio...

A 70-year-old convict serving a life sentence in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts was beaten to death by five inmates in Kalamba Central Jail. Munna, a life-sentenced convict, was convicted of the attacks that claimed 257 lives and injured over 1,...

Arvind Kejriwal, the Chief Minister of Delhi, announced on Friday that he plans to surrender on June 2, emphasizing his resolve not to yield even if faced with harassment in jail. Granted interim bail by the Supreme Court until June 1 for his Lok Sa...

Brijesh Mishra, an Indian immigration agent involved in a scam issuing fake college admissions to Indian students to obtain Canadian visas, was sentenced to three years in jail after pleading guilty in a Vancouver court. Mishra, 37, was linked to fr...

Samajwadi Party leader Mohammad Azam Khan was sentenced to 10 years in prison for forcibly vacating and demolishing a house in Dungarpur eight years ago. The Special MP/MLA Court also fined him Rs 14 lakh. The court found Khan guilty of conspiracy, ...