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Supreme Court gave Elon Musk-owned social platform X five days to present documents validating its new legal representative in the country, a court decision showed on Saturday. X lawyers said late on Friday that it had named a legal representative in Brazil, addressing one of the demands imposed by the court to allow the social platform to resume operations in the country. In his Saturday decision, Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes gave five days for X to provide commercial registries and other documents proving that X formally signed Rachel de Oliveira Conceicao as its Brazil legal representative.

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defamation case against Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi in a MP-MLA court in this Uttar Pradesh district was postponed on Saturday due to a health camp organised by the bar council. The matter will now be heard on October 1. Plaintiff Vijay Mishra's lawyer Santosh Kumar Pandey said his client's statement was to be recorded on Saturday, but due to the health camp organised by the Bar Association on the civil court premises, the lawyers were busy in it and no court work could be done. «The court has postponed the matter to October 1,» he said. Gandhi has been accused of making objectionable comments during the 2018 Karnataka polls about Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who was the BJP president then.

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YouTube channel, which was hacked on Friday, has resumed. «This is to inform all concerned that the YouTube channel of Supreme Court of India is live and up. The services on YouTube channel of Supreme Court of India has been resumed,» said a notice uploaded on the apex court's website on Friday. The top court's YouTube channel was hacked on Friday and showed videos promoting a cryptocurrency developed by US-based company Ripple Labs. A blank video with the title «Brad Garlinghouse: Ripple Responds To The SEC's $2 Billion Fine! XRP PRICE PREDICTION» was live on the hacked channel.

Indian Army personnel involved in the Oting massacre on December 4, 2021. These organizations include the Oting Students' Union (OSU), Naga Students' Federation (NSF), NSCN (I-M), and Naga Hoho. The Supreme Court's decision followed an FIR against the army personnel accused of a botched operation that resulted in the deaths of 13 civilians. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and P B Varale stated that because Nagaland is under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, sanction from the competent authority was required under Section 6 of the Act to proceed with prosecuting the personnel. On February 28, 2023, the competent authority declined to grant this sanction.

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Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD). In a statement on September 20, Amul clarified, “We wish to clarify that Amul has never supplied ghee to TTD.” The company further emphasized that their ghee is made from high-quality milk in ISO-certified facilities. These rumors surfaced after Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu accused the previous administration under YS Jagan Mohan Reddy of using substandard ingredients, including animal fat, in making the sacred Tirupati laddoos. Naidu claimed that even the revered Sri Venkateswara Swamy temple in Tirupati was not exempt from these practices.

Mehul Choksi, are seeking to get him back to India from Belgium, where he has been spotted, said people with knowledge of the matter. One of the two prime accused in the $2-billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud, Choksi-otherwise resident in Antigua-has proven elusive and is said to have to come to the European country for medical treatment, thus providing the agencies an opportunity to get hold of him. After getting wind of his visit, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sought the immediate detention of Choksi, said the people cited above. With Belgium seeking a formal extradition request, the Indian authorities are working on the process so that Choksi can be held and eventually brought to India, they added.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has advised banks to seek legal remedy in case of a stand-off with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) over matters classified as fraud. The RBI's advice was in response to the CBI returning complaints filed by some banks to probe accounts tagged as fraud and where they have already filed an FIR (first information report). In several cases, the investigative agency has informed the lender that its complaint has been returned because the borrower concerned has not been given an in-person hearing before the account was classified as fraud.

sexual assault of the fiance of an Army officer while the duo were in police custody. The case has been registered against the former police station in-charge of Bharatpur, three sub-inspectors and a constable after the woman alleged that she was assaulted and her fiance (Army officer) taken into custody after they went to register a case. The incident, which drew strong condemnation by the Army, with senior officers speaking to civilian authorities to take stringent action, has also snowballed into a political controversy.

Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a second charge sheet in connection with the NEET undergraduate question paper «theft» case. The charge sheet filed in a Patna court names six people, accusing them of cheating, theft, criminal breach of trust, abetment, causing disappearance of evidence, criminal conspiracy and dishonestly receiving stolen property, the agency said on Friday in a new release. Substantive charges have been invoked under the Prevention of Corruption Act against two of them: The principal and vice-principal of the Oasis School, who were the Hazaribagh city coordinator and a centre superintendent, respectively, for the medical entrance exam.

India or engaging people to promote, operate and grow their businesses from the Indian market will have to pay tax attributable to such setups even if these MNCs report losses in their global balance-sheets. This was laid down by a three-judge bench of the Delhi High Court in a ruling which would impact several MNCs using liaison office, subsidiary, or a fixed place like a hotel room — arrangements which are considered as 'permanent establishment' or PEs in tax parlance — to meet customers, negotiate prices, and market products and services. The ruling, pronounced on September 19, was in response to a petition by the UAE-based Hyatt International Southwest Asia which had a fixed place or PE in India at the premises of Hyatt Regency hotel in Delhi.

MHA) has accorded the much-awaited sanction to prosecute former railways minister Lalu Prasad in land-for-jobs case. CBI informed this to a local court on Friday. The agency's counsel also apprised the court that there are nearly 30 co-accused for whom prosecution sanction is awaited from the relevant authorities. CBI has sought a fortnight to obtain sanctions against other accused. The court has directed the agency to expedite the process to obtain sanctions for the co-accused.

Maharashtra Assembly elections, veteran leader Sharad Pawar led faction moved the Supreme Court on Friday seeking that both factions of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) be given new poll symbols. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan listed the plea for hearing on September 25 after senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for Sharad Pawar faction submitted that they want urgent listing of the matter in view of the assembly elections in Maharashtra. Singhvi said that till the matter is finally decided, both the groups should be given new symbols ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly elections. Sharad Pawar has moved the apex court against the February 6 order of the Election Commission recognising Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar-led group as the real Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).