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Madhukar, the main accused in the July 2 Hathras stampede that killed 121 people, was arrested from Delhi's Najafgarh area by a Special Operations Group of Hathras police, officials said on Saturday. Madhukar, who was arrested late night on Friday, was contacted by some political parties recently, Hathras Superintendent of Police Nipun Agarwal said. Agarwal said Madhukar worked as a fundraiser for events of self-styled godman Surajpal alias Narayan Sakar Hari alias Bhole Baba and collected donations. The police will apply for remand of Madhukar, he said. «His financial transactions, money trails are being looked into, and call detail records also being checked,» Agarwal added.

Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgement on a PIL of an NGO which alleged a rise in child marriages in the country and non-implementation of the relevant statute in «letter and spirit». A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra heard submissions from the counsel of the petitioner, 'Society for Enlightenment and Voluntary Action', and Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for the Centre, before reserving the verdict.

Congress, BRS working president K T Rama Rao on Tuesday slammed Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi saying he does "Oscar-level acting on protecting the Constitution". K T Rama Rao (KTR) also said the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) is gearing up for a legal battle against its defecting members and announced plans to file a petition in the Supreme Court. The move comes in response to a recent wave of defections that saw seven MLAs, six MLCs and one Rajya Sabha MP switch allegiance to the Congress party. «We will meet all those who are custodians of the Constitution,» KTR, who is the son of BRS chief and former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, told reporters on Tuesday.

Shiv Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik on Wednesday demanded action against a Mumbai-based college for banning students from wearing «jeans and T-shirts». The Chembur Trombay Education Society's N G Acharya and D K Marathe College, in the notice issued on June 27, banned students from wearing torn jeans, T-shirts, revealing dresses and jerseys, or a dress that «reveals religion or shows cultural disparity». The students should wear a formal and decent dress while on campus, it said. Speaking in the assembly, Sarnaik said the notice issued by the college was a «Talibani fatwa». More than 70 -80 per cent students wear jeans and jackets, he said. «Will you ban a swimming suit for a swimming competition and T-shirts, shorts for sports competitions?» the Sena legislator asked. The education minister should take action against the college authorities for the Talibani fatwa, Sarnaik added. Last month, the students of the same college moved the Bombay High Court, challenging the directive issued by the college imposing a dress code under which they cannot wear hijab, naqab, burka, stoles, caps and badges inside the premises. The high court on June 26 said a dress code is meant to maintain discipline which is part of the college's fundamental right to «establish and administer an educational institution».

lawyer who avoided prison time after pleading guilty to insider trading must pay a $1.15 million fine in a related U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil case, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge William Martini in Newark, New Jersey, said that while Gene Levoff «was not living excessively, his violations were nonetheless especially egregious» given the lawyer's former role enforcing Apple's insider trading policies.

American Petroleum Institute CEO Mike Sommers discusses the country's energy independence and lawsuits against Biden's EV mandates.

The legal battle between Coinbase and the SEC heated up on July 3 as the cryptocurrency exchange sought to gain access to emails from SEC Chair Gary Gensler, claiming they held crucial evidence for its defense.

Hunter Biden has sued Fox News accusing the American news outlet of unlawfully publishing explicit images of him as part of a series. President Joe Biden's son has filed the lawsuit in state court in Manhattan. The bone of contention here is the images that were used in «The Trial of Hunter Biden». The show was released on the streaming service Fox Nation in 2022. The lawsuit claims the dissemination of intimate images without his consent violated New York's so-called revenge porn law.

Uttar Pradesh government will speak to anyone required for its inquiry into the July 2 Hathras stampede, a probe panel member said on Sunday when asked if self-styled godman Bhole Baba will also be questioned. The commission will also issue a public notice soon, asking local people and witnesses of the tragic incident to share any evidence related to the stampede, along with their statement, another member and chairperson of the panel retired Allahabad High Court judge Brijesh Kumar Shrivastava told reporters in Hathras. «The commission will speak to anyone required for the Hathras stampede probe,» former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Bhavesh Kumar said when asked if the judicial panel will question the 'godman' as well.

Som Distilleries at Sehatganj village in Raisen, Madhya Pradesh. He calls his work “pauwa jamana”— setting the bottles upright so that alcohol falls into them. He did that for nine hours a day. Wearing jeans and tee shirt, Vineet sits with a slight stoop at his home. He says he dropped out of school. Instead of going to class, the thin boy would reach the distillery at 8 am and work till 5 pm. After a long day of strenuous, hazardous work, he would go home with Rs 350. He saw the hands of his friends had turned white, the skin had peeled. “It could have been the chemicals,” he says. He worked there only for a fortnight. Before he had to spend more days in that reeking plant, before his hands too got scalded, he was rescued. On June 15, a team of officials of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), a nonprofit founded by Kailash Satyarthi, rescued 59 children—39 boys and 20 girls—from the distillery, in the biggest busting of child labour racket in the liquor industry in the past several years. About 40 other children “escaped” during the raid, according to officials at the rescue operation.

Arvind Kejriwal, arrested in Delhi excise scam cases, seeking additional virtual meetings with his lawyers. Justice Neena Bansal Krishna granted the prison authorities five days to file a reply and listed the matter for argument on July 15. Kejriwal has challenged a trial court's July 1 order rejecting his application for directions to the prison authorities to grant him two additional meetings in a week with his lawyers through video conference. At present, the jailed Aam Aadmi Party national convener is allowed two meetings with his lawyers per week.

Wimbledon 2024 has been underway for quite some time but the thrill and excitement around The All England Club was much like it has always been until the Carlos Alcaraz vs Frances Tiafoe third round match took place. Alcaraz, being the reigning champion, was predicted to claim an outright victory over Frances Tiafoe but it didn't happen so easily as was being thought. Tiafoe gave Alcaraz a run for his money by defending his ground so well that every shot by both of them was met with gasps from the audience.

JMM) executive president Hemant Soren on Thursday after CM Champai Soren resigned from the post. The other leaders invited by the Raj Bhavan include state Congress president Rajesh Thakur and RJD leader Satyanand Bhakta. Champai Soren resigned from the post just five months after taking the oath, setting the ball rolling for Hemant Soren to again take over the role and said that the ruling alliance had chosen Hemant Soren as the leader.

Bombay High Court on Friday extended by four weeks the interim bail on medical grounds granted to Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal, accused in a money laundering case. On May 6, the high court had granted interim bail for two months on medical grounds to Goyal, arrested in a money laundering case by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). 75-year-old Goyal has now filed an application seeking extension of the same. Goyal, who is suffering from cancer, had submitted to the high court that he has to undergo a preliminary laparoscopic surgery. His counsel Aabad Ponda told a single bench of Justice N J Jamadar that the surgery is scheduled on July 23. The bench took note of this and extended the interim bail for four weeks. «Having perused the medical reports and the situation in which the applicant finds himself, in the backdrop of the physical and psychological ailments, aggravated on account of the demise of his wife, I deem it appropriate to extend the interim bail on medical ground by a period of four weeks,» the HC said. It would hear Goyal's plea for bail both on merits and medical grounds on August 2.

Global software giant Microsoft Corp. will pay $14.4 million in California to settle allegations that it discriminated against employees who took protected leave from work

Engineer Rashid, was elected from Baramulla seat as an independent candidate defeating National Conference leader Omar Abdullah in the recent Lok Sabha polls. He was arrested in a 2017 Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case. Rashid had moved the court seeking interim bail, or custody parole in the alternative, to take oath and perform his parliamentary functions.

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Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Champai Soren's appointment as the state chief minister in February to replace Hemant Soren was as dramatic as his exit from the post five months later. Champai Soren, who once tilled fields with his father in a remote village in Jharkhand's Saraikela-Kharsawan district, took oath as the chief minister on February 2, days after his predecessor Hemant Soren resigned, just before he was arrested by the ED in a money laundering case. Hemant was released from jail on June 28 after the high court granted him bail, and on Wednesday, he was elected the party's legislature party leader. Champai submitted his resignation letter to the governor as chief minister to pave the way for Hemant Soren, who was sworn in as the chief minister for the third time. Sixty-seven-year-old tribal leader Champai Soren has earned the sobriquet 'Jharkhand's Tiger' for his contribution to the long fight for the creation of a separate state in the 1990s. Jharkhand was created from the southern part of Bihar in 2000.

Paxful co-founder Artur Schaback pled guilty to conspiring to operate a crypto exchange platform without effective anti-money laundering policies.

Silvergate Capital Corp., former CEO Alan Lane and former chief risk officer Kathleen Fraher, were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with misleading investors about the strength of its bank secrecy act and AML compliance programme and the monitoring of crypto customers. In addition, the company and former executives were charged with misleading investors about the company’s losses from expected securities sales following the collapse of FTX. Silvergate and Martino misrepresented the company’s bleak financial condition during a liquidity crisis and bank run following FTX’s collapse, alleges the SEC.

The National Rifle Association’s former finance czar agreed to a decade-long ban from managing money for New York not-for-profits after a jury found him liable in a scheme to have the influential gun rights organization bankroll a longtime chief execut...