Tag: Court

Bhubaneswar: The sexual harassment case against Ollywood actor Tattwa Prakash Satapthy aka Papu Pom Pom took a dramatic turn on Tuesday after the victim’s father stunned everyone with a statement on OTV that the girl produced before the court by the police was not his daughter. In a lengthy interview to OTV, the minor girl’s […]

Bhubaneswar: The case of sexual abuse against actor Tatwa Prakash Satapathy aka Papu Pom Pom was turned on its head today when the teenage victim’s father filed an affidavit in the Khurda District and Sessions Judge Court seeking withdrawal of the case since the matter had been ‘amicably resolved’. “The father of the victim filed […]

Cuttack/Bhadrak: Entertainment channel Sarthak TV found itself in trouble after the winner of the ‘Rajo Queen-2016’, a reality show organised by the channel, has threatened to drag the channel to court alleging that she was being forced to return the crown on the ground that audience vote was required before the final round. The winner […]

Balasore: A family court here today passed the final order asking Rajashree Mohanty, son of former minister and senior BJD leader Raghunath Mohanty, to pay Rs 16,000 per month to his estranged wife Barsa Swony Choudhury as maintenance. The court, in its interim order in January this year, had asked Rajshree to pay Rs 25,000 […]

Cuttack: The district and sessions court here on Thursday rejected the interim bail plea of Nirmal Rout, an accused in the murder of the Dhalasamanta brothers’ henchmen Om and Dipu. Rout had appealed to the court to grant bail for his treatment outside Odisha. In the petition, he had mentioned that he needed ultra modern […]

Balasore: Popular Odia television actress Pralipta Priyadarshini Samal aka Jessy, who is now in police remand at Soro jail on the charge of instigating her male colleague Ranjit Patnaik alias Raja to commit suicide, on Saturday moved the district sessions court here seeking bail.

Bhubaneswar: An under trial prisoner (UTP) has sustained critical injuries in his head after jumping from the third floor of a court building here on Tuesday.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said Maharashtra cannot ban dance bars by taking recourse to regulating them and trying to achieve indirectly what it can’t by a clamp-down. Noting that “Since 2005, no licence has been issued”, the court said: “There may be a regulation, but that does not amount to total prohibition.” […]

Mumbai: A special court here on Saturday issued summons to absconding liquor baron Vijay Mallya to appear before it on August 27. The order came following a hearing on a fresh plea filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The ED has sought action against him under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Ordinance in the over Rs […]

  New Delhi: Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chairperson Swati Maliwal on Sunday ended her nine-day fast after President Ram Nath Kovind approved an ordinance to provide death penalty to those convicted of raping girls below 12 years. Maliwal, 33, went on an indefinite hunger strike at Rajghat and refused to break it despite failing […]

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday said the State government has decided to establish 50 more courts while it has established 170 courts in the last four years. “Our state government is committed not only to the cause of justice, but also justice at the doorstep for the people of Odisha. In the process, […]

New Delhi: A court here on Monday issued summons to app-based cab service providers, including Ola and Uber, for allegedly not adhering to rules relating to fares. ad Metropolitan Magistrate Abhilash Malhotra asked the company to represent itself by the authorised representative on the next date of hearing, December 11. The court order came on […]

New Delhi: Initiating the digital era in the Indian judiciary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Wednesday launched the Integrated Case Management Information System (ICMIS) to help the apex court go paperless. ICMIS helps with digital filing of the cases called e-filing and enables litigants to easily access the information online. The Prime Minister uploaded […]

  New Delhi: The Union Cabinet today approved an ordinance to allow courts to award death penalty to those convicted of raping children up to 12 years of age. Official sources said that the criminal law amendment ordinance seeks to amend the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Evidence Act, the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) […]

Bhubaneswar: As many as 13,18,988 cases are pending in different courts including the Odisha High Court for disposal, state law minister Arun Kumar Sahoo today said in a reply to a question in the Assembly. Out of the total cases, 4,05,483 cases were of civil in nature, while the remaining 9,13,505 were criminal cases, he […]