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Why Mohali court denied Akali Dal’s Majithia bail in Rs 540-cr disproportionate assets case

In February 2022, he surrendered in drugs case & was granted bail 6 months later. He was then booked in DA case & was arrested 25 June 2025. He has been denied bail in DA case.

Jan Vishwas Bill 2025: Tying cow to pole, honking in silence zone among 355 offences to be amended

If passed, Bill will reshape how Indians encounter law in routine life—removing the tag of ‘criminal’ from everyday infractions & replacing it with accountability through fines.

How Punjab & Haryana HC backed Panchkula man’s quest for truth about his parentage

Case involves 35-year-old from Haryana and a man he referred to as ‘papa’ while growing up. Matter reached HC after the latter moved it against trial court order for paternity test.

‘How can you criminalise love?’ SC backs TN circular against hasty POCSO arrests in ‘romantic cases’

New Delhi: “How can you criminalise love?” asked the Supreme Court Tuesday, as it sought to back the Tamil Nadu government’s more than two-year-old...

Blank column in form not concealment—why consumer commission overturned denial of 2017 insurance claim

A woman approached National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission after her complaint against Bharti AXA was rejected by Rajasthan State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.

MP Mohan Delkar’s death: Why SC upheld quashing of suicide abetment case against UT administrator, others

The tribal leader was found dead in a Mumbai hotel room in 2021. His son accused BJP leader Praful Khoda Patel, 8 others of harassment, conspiracy & abetment. Bombay HC had quashed the FIR.

Why NIA court ordered extensive steps to protect witnesses in 2019 murder case involving PFI members

Some witnesses had earlier refused to appear in court, fearing threat to their lives. PFI workers had allegedly hacked to death a former PMK district secretary in Thanjavur.

EC-WB govt standoff in ‘fake’ voter row—can EC suspend erring polling officials in state? What law says

5 officials accused of adding fake voters to electoral rolls in Bengal are at the centre of the dispute, with poll body seeking suspension & FIRs against them, & state govt refusing to act.

When SC stepped in, summoned EVMs & reversed outcome of a panchayat poll in Haryana’s Panipat

In a first, Supreme Court ordered vote recount on its premises. It then reversed initial outcome of election of sarpanch of Buana Lakhu panchayat in Haryana’s Panipat.

Why SC cancelled actor Darshan’s bail, pulled up HC for ‘mechanical exercise of discretion’

Cancelling bail granted by Karnataka HC to actor-producer Darshan in murder case, SC said high court’s order was marked by ‘significant omissions of legally relevant facts’.

On Camera

SC order on stray dogs is like Tughlaq’s march to Daulatabad—grand in tone, empty in substance

SC’s order asks institutions to breed unnecessary panic and build fortresses, when they are yet to achieve basic safety or dignity.

No more text-heavy ads, wider scope of services—ICAI’s ethics code overhaul to promote Indian CA firms

Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.