The Delhi Police apprised the Supreme Court that it has decided to register an FIR on Friday over sexual harassment allegations levelled by seven women wrestlers against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
"We have decided to register an FIR. It will be registered today," Mehta told the bench, which was hearing a plea filed by seven women wrestlers alleging non-registration of an FIR on their sexual harassment allegations against Singh.
Prohibitory order has been clamped and mobile internet services have been suspended in Manipur's Churachandpur district after an unruly mob vandalised and set on fire the venue where Chief Minister N Biren Singh is scheduled to attend a programme at New Lamka in the district on Friday.
The District Magistrate of Churachandpur based on a report from the Superintendent of Police that there is likelihood of breach of peace, disturbance to public tranquillity and grave danger to human lives and public properties has clamped prohibitory order under Section 144 of CrPC in the tribal-dominated district.
In an unprecedented development in Bengal's cash-for-jobs scam cases, the Supreme Court on Friday directed the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court to reassign the matter concerning irregularities in primary teachers' recruitment in Bengal from the Bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay to another judge.
A Bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha passed the order in light of the fact that Justice Gangopadhyay had given an interview to a Bengali news channel regarding Trinamul Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee, the litigant, even as the case concerning Banerjee was being heard by the judge in September last year.
The Chhattisgarh police on Friday said the powerful improvised explosive device (IED) that exploded killing 10 policemen and a civilian driver in Dantewada had been planted by Naxalites at least two months ago.
The explosive, however, remained “undetected” during the demining exercise conducted a day before the attack on Wednesday, they said. “The preliminary investigation suggests that the IED was planted at least two months ago or before it. The grass had grown on the layer of soil under which the wire, which was connected to the explosive, was concealed,” Inspector General of Police (Bastar range) Sundarraj P told PTI.
A special CBI court here on Friday acquitted actor Sooraj Pancholi, accused of abetting the suicide of his then actor girlfriend Jiah Khan in 2013, citing lack of evidence against him.
Sooraj Pancholi (32), who is currently out on bail, was charged under Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 306 (abetment of suicide). Jiah Khan's mother Rabia Khan had been refuting the prosecution's case that this was a case of suicide and claimed that her daughter was killed.
Extending the scope of its 2022 order beyond three states, the Supreme Court on Friday directed all states and Union Territories to register cases against those making hate speeches even if no complaint has been made.
A bench of Justices KM Joseph and BV Nagarathna termed hate speeches a "serious offence capable of affecting secular fabric of the country". "Where have we reached in the name of religion? What have we reduced religion to is really tragic," the apex court had then observed and directed Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Uttarakhand to crack down hard on those making hate speeches, calling them shocking for a country that is religion-neutral.
A BJP delegation on Friday met the Election Commission and requested the poll panel to register a criminal case against Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and bar him from campaign in the Karnataka assembly polls over his "poisonous snake" barb at Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Union minister Bhupender Yadav, who led the BJP delegation, told reporters that Kharge's comment was not merely a slip of the tongue but part of the Congress' "hate politics".
More Indians than ever before are making the dangerous crossing across the English Channel in small boats to enter the United Kingdom illegally, according to the British government.
Indians have suddenly become the second largest nationality who’ve been detected attempting to cross the Channel which is one of the world’s busiest seaways with frequently rough weather that makes the journey all the riskier.
The 12-hour bandh called by the BJP to protest the "atrocities on tribal community" in the backdrop of a minor girl's death in Kaliaganj last week partially affected normal life in most parts of Uttar Dinajpur and six other districts of north Bengal on Friday.
Protesters damaged two NBSTC-operated buses in Cooch Behar district while BJP activists put up road blockades in different places of northern parts of the state hampering normal life there despite heavy deployment of police forces.