NAGPUR: In a ruling clarifying the legal status of electronic communication in criminal proceedings, the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court last week held that summons issued through WhatsApp is legally valid under Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, and set aside an order imposing costs on a police personnel for effecting such service,.Justice Urmila…
Mumbai: The Bombay HC recently transferred to the CBI a probe into a 2010 accidental death case of a 13-year-old schoolgirl, saying police did not consider the autopsy report that said in the last 24 hours before her death, she was subjected to sexual intercourse. Police relied on an incomplete video recording and statement of…
MUMBAI: A child raised exclusively by her mother cannot be compelled to carry her father’s surname and caste merely because the format once demanded it, Bombay HC said recently. The order was in response to a petition filed by a 12-year-old girl seeking correction of her name in school records and also of the caste…
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: The Usmannagar police in Nanded arrested five people from Jharkhand for allegedly creating 15,569 fake birth records on Maharashtra govt’s civil registration system (CRS) portal by misusing the login credentials of a gram panchayat,reports Mohammed Akhef.An FIR was lodged against them under BNS sections 318(4), 337, 336(3), 340(2) and 338 for cheating and…
New Delhi: In the single biggest attachment of properties, ED on Wednesday said it has attached assets worth over Rs 10,000 crore of Pearl Agro Corp Ltd (PACL) in a money laundering case. These properties are located in Punjab’s SAS Nagar, Rupnagar, Zirakpur and Mohali. With this, the value of total attachments against PACL and…
Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin (File photo) NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu on Wednesday pitched for greater federalism, with the state assembly tabling the Justice Kurian Joseph Committee report on Centre-state relations that recommended diminished powers for the governor and a greater role for states in constitutional amendments.In Part-1 of the report, which runs into 387…
A man walks past a signage board of AI Impact Summit, in New Delhi NEW DELHI: A farmer in Uttar Pradesh sold solar power directly to a shopkeeper in Delhi Wednesday, marking the rollout of India’s peer-to-peer (P) electricity trading programme at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, reports Atul Mathur. During…
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday said it has attached $56 million (around Rs 470 crore) of deposits in foreign bank accounts in the US and Singapore, held in the names of alleged overseas shell companies of a money gaming app Winzo Pvt Ltd, operated and controlled by Paavan Nanda and Saumya Singh Rathore….
United Nations (File photo) India was among more than 100 countries and international organisations that condemned Israel’s ongoing efforts to consolidate control over the West Bank in a joint statement at the UN, saying such measures violated international law and undermined the ongoing efforts for peace and stability in the region.India endorsed the statement late…
Union Minister Bhupender Yadav posted this photo on his X handle celebrating the birth of three new cheetah cubs at Kuno National Park, in Sheopur on Wednesday. (@byadavbjp X/ANI Photo) Gamini, the South African cheetah introduced to Kuno National Park three years ago under Project Cheetah, gave birth to three cubs on Wednesday. Another cheetah,…