New Delhi: Former AAP MLA Naresh Balyan will remain in jail after Delhi High Court Monday refused to grant him bail in a case registered under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), despite a trial court recently discharging him in a separate extortion case arising from similar allegations.Justice Manoj Jain, who had reserved the…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Monday sought responses from the Centre, Delhi govt and the commissioner of Delhi Police on a PIL seeking the earmarking of designated protest sites in the National Capital Region in place of Jantar Mantar, claiming that the latter lacked basic amenities and facilities for protesters.A bench led by CJI Surya Kant…
Delhi court has acquitted former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh NEW DELHI: A Delhi court Monday acquitted BJP ex-MP and former Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in the sexual harassment case filed by women wrestlers. Suspended WFI assistant secretary Vinod Tomar was also acquitted.Additional chief judicial magistrate Ashwini Panwar pronounced…
New Delhi: Most of Delhi’s affluent and middle-class neighbourhoods are lagging behind low-income areas when it comes to successful verification and digitisation of enumeration forms, according to Delhi poll panel’s Aug 3 data of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.With just five days to go for the Aug 8 deadline to submit…
New Delhi: A Delhi court has allowed the cross-examination of the mother of an accused in the age determination proceedings of a juvenile in the Tarun Butolia murder case. It said the defence must be given a chance to present video evidence that could settle the question on the age of the accused.The court set…
New Delhi: AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal will lead a march to PM Narendra Modi’s residence Tuesday against “forceful imposition” of E20 petrol and hand over a petition signed by around 2.5 lakh people, seeking a meeting with PM over problems with the ethanol-blended fuel.In a news conference, Kejriwal alleged that “PM Modi has buckled…
New Delhi: A Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee has urged the apex court to order a fresh crackdown on non-conforming commercial activities operating from unsafe buildings across Delhi.In a report submitted to the court recently, the committee has sought an end to the policy allowing mixed-use and commercial activities in residential buildings under the Delhi Development…
New Delhi: Terming Delhi as the “nation’s laboratory for judicial innovation”, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant Monday inaugurated 13 dedicated special courts to try cases under anti-terror, narcotics and organised crime laws. Speaking at the Rouse Avenue Court complex, CJI Kant hoped the courts would help ensure timely justice and strengthen the criminal justice…
The house that collapsed in northeast Delhi’s Usmanpur Sunday night New Delhi: A 32-year-old man and his wife, who had been married for barely two-and-a-half months, were killed when the roof of their rented house collapsed in northeast Delhi’s Usmanpur Sunday night, while the woman’s 10-year-old son narrowly escaped as he was watching television in…
New Delhi: The city’s road digitisation survey kicked off with Ashoka Road Monday, marking the first on-ground step of Delhi govt’s collaboration with CSIR-Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) to make the capital’s roads greener and scientifically managed.A specialised network survey vehicle (NSV) has started digitising the road network to create a geo-referenced database that will…
