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Tis Hazari Court on Saturday issued notice to Delhi police on Bibhav Kumar's revision petition challenging the cognizance of the charge sheet filed against him. His matter is pending before the Court. Additional Sessions Judge Abhishek Goyal issued a notice to Delhi Police and sought a response to the petition. The matter has been listed next month for a hearing. Advocates Manish Baidwan, and Rajat Bhardwaj along with Karan Sharma appeared for Bibhav Kumar. Advocate Manish Baidwan has moved the revision petition challenging the Cognizance.

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A federal judge said Kraft Heinz KHC.O must face a proposed nationwide class action alleging that it defrauded consumers by claiming its Kraft macaroni and cheese, one of its best-known products, contains no artificial preservatives.

Ben & Jerry’s has sued its parent company Unilever accusing it of silencing the ice cream maker from making statements in support of Palestinians in the war in Gaza

A New York judge has rejected an effort by state regulators to shutter a bitcoin mine over concerns about its greenhouse gas emissions

A commercial affiliate of the Major League Baseball Players Association has settled a lawsuit with FanDuel over the alleged unauthorized use of the names and images of MLB players on its sports-betting platform

A man accused of stealing $44 million from a Detroit nonprofit group has pleaded guilty to financial crimes

Madhya Pradesh High Court said while allowing a woman's divorce plea. The 33-year-old woman works as a manager with a Central government undertaking. She moved the HC after the Family Court dismissed her divorce plea, which claimed her husband was mentally harassing her to leave her job and live with him in Bhopal. In its order of November 13, a division bench of MP High Court comprising Chief Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari overturned the family court's decision and allowed the woman's plea for divorce. «Whether husband or wife wants to live together, it is their wish. Neither husband nor wife can force the other side not to do a job or do any job as per the choice of the spouse. In the present case, the husband compelled his wife to leave the government job till he gets a job. In this manner, forcing the wife to leave her job and live as per his wish and style amounts to cruelty,» the bench said.

Investors in the cryptocurrency who said the world's richest person and his electric car company Tesla committed fraud and insider trading are withdrawing their appeal from an Aug. 29 dismissal of their case. They are also withdrawing a bid to sanction Musk's lawyers for allegedly interfering with the appeal, including by demanding payment of their hefty legal fees.

Supreme Court seeking its nod to bring on record various news reports and additional documents to highlight dilapidated conditions of bridges in Bihar. A bench comprising the then Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, since retired, and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra had on July 29 this year sought responses from the Bihar government and others, including the National Highway Authorities of India (NHAI), on the PIL filed by lawyer Brajesh Singh. On November 4, the top court agreed to consider listing for hearing the PIL that raised concerns about the safety and longevity of bridges in Bihar after several of them collapsed in recent months. The plea is likely to be heard on November 18.

Supreme Court has said there is a legislative vacuum with regard to the establishment of a comprehensive rehabilitation framework for victims of sex trafficking. The top court directed the Centre to consider the issue and file an affidavit regarding it. «Human and sex trafficking are crimes that dehumanises the victim and violates the victim's right to life, freedom and personal security. Vulnerable sections of society, especially women and children, are disproportionately affected in such crimes,» said a bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and Pankaj Mithal. The apex court said the victims of such crimes are often mistreated by their traffickers and have to endure physical and mental forms of violence that are inflicted upon them.

Remo D'Souza. A bench comprising Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan sought responses of the state government and the businessman and ordered that the notices be served through 'dasti' mode. The case dates back to 2016 when an FIR was lodged against D'Souza by Tyagi. The FIR alleged that D'Souza persuaded Tyagi to invest Rs 5 crore in his upcoming film 'Amar Must Die' with a promise of doubling the invested amount after its release.

Delhi High Court has refused to interfere with an arbitral award, which directed GAIL to pay over USD 7 million to Jindal Saw Ltd. On October 29, a bench of Justices Visbhu Bakhru and Sachin Datta dismissed GAIL's appeal against a single judge's decision upholding the award, saying that it was «unmerited». The dispute in the matter pertained to delayed delivery of pipes by SAW Pipes Ltd, now Jindal Saw Ltd, to Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL). The Arbitral Tribunal, passed in December 2002 and then amended in March 2003, had held that GAIL was responsible for the delay by not taking the delivery of the goods and therefore allowed the claims filed by SAW Pipes Ltd.

Diamond Sports Group, the largest owner of regional sports networks, can emerge out of bankruptcy after having its reorganization plan approved

Two environmental activists have been charged over the spraying of orange paint powder at the Stonehenge monuments in southwest England in June

The purchase of Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction by the satirical news publication The Onion is the latest twist in a yearslong saga

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has issued the first round of permits allowing Enbridge to reroute an aging pipeline around a tribal reservation

The state that gave much of America the right to offer legal sports betting may decide that certain bets on college athletes are out of bounds

Olivia Nuzzi, RFK Jr.'s «digital» mistress, dropped her claims against her ex, Ryan Lizza, in their ongoing legal battle. The accusations, which included blackmail, device hacking, and threats of violence, were withdrawn after Nuzzi faced pressure from evidence her ex’s legal team presented.

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler spoke this morning at the Practising Law Institute's 56th annual conference on securities regulation. 

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Clarity from the government on the issue of adjusted gross revenue (AGR) will move the needle on Vodafone Idea Ltd’s efforts to raise debt from lenders, its top executive said, adding that promoters, along with the management, were in discussions with banks for raising ₹35,000 crore.