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treat children has a deep impact on their minds throughout their lives...I will never forget that day in school. I was not a juvenile delinquent when my hands were caned. I was learning the craft and didn't bring the right-sized needles to class for the assignment," CJI Chandrachud said.

Courts have to take a participatory role in a trial and not act as «mere tape recorders», the Supreme Court said here and lamented that there is «practically no effective and meaningful cross-examination» by public prosecutors of any hostile witness during hearings of criminal appeals. The apex court said a judge has to monitor the proceedings in aid of justice and, even if the prosecutor is remiss or lethargic in some ways, the court should control the proceedings effectively so that the truth is arrived at. Observing that relations between the public prosecution service and the judiciary are the very cornerstone of the criminal justice system, a bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said time and again, the top court has said that there should not be any element of political consideration in matters like appointment to post of public prosecutor etc. The observations by the bench, also comprising Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, came in a judgement while upholding the conviction and life sentence awarded to a man for murdering his wife in 1995.

dunki route and somehow manages to reach the United Kingdom for a better life there. Upon reaching there, however, he is now likely to be deported to Rwanda, a small country in central Africa. Something of this sort is now going to happen in UK as ‘Rwanda Asylum Plan’ comes into force.

Pakistan People's Party's Faisal Karim Kundi took oath as the governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday, according to ARY News. Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim, Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court (PHC), administered the oath to Faisal Karim Kundi during a ceremony at the Governor House. Faisal Karim Kundi, a PPP stalwart, served as Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly from 2008 to 2013.

Coimbatore: Tamil YouTuber 'Savukku' Shankar has been sent to judicial custody till May 17 by a court here, following his arrest allegedly for making defamatory remarks against women police officials, police said on Saturday. The Coimbatore Court sent Shankar to judicial custody till May 17, they added. The arrest was made based on a complaint by a Sub-Inspector of Police of Coimbatore City for allegedly making objectionable comments against women cops in a recent interview on a YouTube channel.

An ongoing lawsuit in the UK over Covid vaccination has caused a global furore, including in India.UK’s The Telegraph has reported that AstraZeneca admitted in court documents that its Covid vaccinecan cause blood clots in rare instances. The pharma major is facing a class action lawsuit over claimsthat its vaccine, developed with University of Oxford, caused death and injuries. In India, where themajority of people were administered Covishield, as the AstraZeneca vaccine was known here, thenews has caused concern. Dr Shahid Jameel, virologist and research fellow at Green Templeton College,University of Oxford, tells Indulekha Aravind that there is no cause for worry as benefits far outweigh risks. But playing politics with this, he says, is both wrong and dangerous. Edited excerpts:

Russia has opened a criminal case against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and put him on a wanted list, the state news agency TASS reported on Saturday, an announcement Ukraine dismissed as evidence of Moscow's «desperation». TASS reported that the Russian Interior Ministry database showed Zelenskiy was on a wanted list but gave no further details.

Arvind Kejriwal has been included in the list. Kejriwal's wife, Sunita Kejriwal, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, former Delhi deputy chief minister, Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain, MPs Sanjay Singh, Raghav Chadha, Delhi ministers Gopal Rai, Atishi, Saurabh Bharadwaj, Kailash Gahlot and Delhi Mayor, Shelly Oberoi are also included in the list.

in which his son and JDS MP from Hassan Prajwal Revanna is also booked. Revanna was brought to CID office in Bengaluru, news agency PTI reported. Revanna was taken into the custody after a special court for People's Representative in Bengaluru rejected the interim bail application of HD Revanna and Prajwal Revanna in connection with the alleged "obscene videos" case.

Blue Corner Notice is issued by the international police cooperation body to collect additional information from its member countries about a person's identity, location or activities in relation to a crime. Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah held an "important meeting" with the officials of the Special Investigation Team (SIT), during which he instructed that immediate action be taken to arrest Prajwal Revanna. "We will proceed for arrest with appropriate measures.

Rohith Vemula death: Telangana Police closes case, says 'not a dalit…' DGP Ravi Gupta said the final report in the case was prepared in 2018 and that it was officially submitted in the jurisdictional court on March 21, 2024. "It is to state that the investigation officer in the case was Asst. Commissioner of Police, Madhapur and the final closure report in the case was prepared last year i.e.

Santrupt Misra, the former HR head of Aditya Birla Group and current BJD candidate from Cuttack, has declared assets valued at approximately Rs 461 crore, making him the richest candidate in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections in Odisha, according to a report by the Times of India (TOI). Misra, 58, joined the BJD in February after opting for voluntary retirement from the Aditya Birla Group. His income tax returns showed earnings of Rs 76.23 crore in 2021-22 and Rs 66.21 crore in 2022-23, as per the TOI report. His affidavit submitted during the nomination filing revealed movable assets worth Rs 408 crore and immovable assets worth Rs 53 crore, including Rs 4 crore in bank deposits. According to TOI, the total current value of Misra's investments in mutual funds, alternate investment funds, bonds, and shares is around Rs 308 crore. He also owns a fleet of luxury cars valued at over Rs 2.3 crore. Additionally, the report states that his wife's movable assets are valued at Rs 11.72 crore. Despite not owning any immovable property in Odisha, Misra possesses agricultural land in Raigad district of Maharashtra, and one flat each in Hyderabad and Mumbai.

AP, Saltanat Nukenova, 31, was found dead in November at a restaurant owned by one of her husband's relatives. Kuandyk Bishimbayev, who is accused of torturing and killing her, initially denied any wrongdoing but admitted in court on Wednesday that he had beaten her, claiming her death was “unintentional". Bishimbayev's lawyers initially challenged medical evidence indicating that Nukenova died from repeated blows to the head.

Boris Becker was released from bankruptcy proceedings in a London court after the presiding judge determined he had taken all reasonable steps to settle his debts with creditors, who were owed tens of millions of pounds, as per Reuters. Despite falling significantly short of repaying the nearly 50 million pounds ($62.5 million) he owed, Chief Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Nicholas Briggs concluded that discontinuing the case was the just course of action due to Becker's earnest efforts, the report added.

Google and the US Justice Department wrapped up closing arguments on Friday over claims that the Alphabet unit has unlawfully dominated web search and related advertising, in a case the government contends could shape the «future of the internet.» US District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington for hours grilled both sides with questions, probing whether competitive platforms such as ByteDance's TikTok and Meta's Facebook and Instagram are competitive substitutes for search advertising dollars.

Prajwal Revanna's alleged sex-tape scandal will not impact the BJP's alliance with JDS, former CM Basavaraj Bommai declared on Friday. “We are for inquiry. But he has been able to flee the country because of the Congress government’s insistence on delaying action for the Vokkaliga votes in the earlier phase of elections” he told ET. The scandal broke last week when pen drives of obscene videos allegedly involving Prajwal Revanna – former PM HD Deve Gowda’s grandson and the NDA candidate from Hassan – were distributed all over his constituency, days before the Lok Sabha election took place there. He has since fled the country. Karnataka government’s Special Investigative Team (SIT) issued a look out notice for him on Thursday. The government, Bommai added, could have put out a red alert notice against him after he absconded, or even applied for revoking his passport. “It has not taken any of these steps yet, which is very telling,” he said.

Tesla Power" to market its products, on May 3. The lawsuit, heard in the Delhi High Court, seeks damages and a permanent injunction to stop the use of the Tesla brand name, as per Reuters. During a court session this week, it was revealed that the Indian company, Tesla Power India Pvt Ltd, continued to promote its products under the "Tesla Power" brand despite receiving a cease-and-desist notice in April 2022, as reported on the court's website, the report added.

Hardeep Singh Nijjar have been arrested, the RCMP confirmed Friday.The RCMP took three Indian nationals into custody on Friday morning, almost a year after Nijjar was gunned down at the Guru Nanak Sikh Temple in Surrey, B.C.The suspects entered Canada on student visas but may have been working at the direction of Indian intelligence when they shot Nijjar, a source familiar with the matter said.Karanpreet Singh, 28, Kamalpreet Singh, 22, and Karan Brar, 22, have been charged with murder and conspiracy in Nijjar’s killing, according to B.C. court records.The offences were allegedly committed in Surrey and Edmonton, where the men were living and were arrested.

Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO). Among the 24 individuals and entities listed as accused are Winsome founder Jatin Mehta, who had left the country before the mess surfaced, his wife Sonia and son Suraj, former employees, auditors, and the partner of a Dubai audit firm whose damaging testimony has helped the central agency build its case. Alleging that Mehta was the «brain and will behind the decisions of Winsome», the SFIO chargesheet (which ET has reviewed) charged the promoter, his family members, five companies, including Winsome, and others of criminal conspiracy to cheat the banks of Rs 4,258 crore, which is punishable under sections pertaining to cheating (420), breach of trust ( 409) read with criminal breach of trust (120(B)) of the IPC. Manipulation of books for carrying out fictitious transactions, related party and irregular derivatives deals ignored by auditors, and unauthorised investment in a group company constitute other charges under the post and amended Companies Act, 2013.

Supreme Court on Friday verbally observed that it could consider granting interim bail to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal due to the Lok Sabha elections. A bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta made the oral observation after observing that the arguments on Kejriwal's plea, challenging his arrest in the Delhi excise scandal, may take time to conclude. The bench enquired about the date of polling in Delhi. «This may take time. But if the case takes time, we may consider the question of interim bail due to elections,» justice Khanna remarked orally. However he made it clear, repeatedly that the bench has not decided anything in this regard and was merely posing a query to the ED counsel to be answered on Tuesday.

Section 498A of IPC dealt with cruelty against the wife by the husband or his relatives. A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra made the observations while quashing a case filed by a wife against her husband and his relatives. "We request the Legislature to look into the issue, taking into consideration the pragmatic realities and consider making necessary changes in Sections 85 and 86, respectively, of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, before both the new provisions come into force," the Court said as per Bar and Bench.