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An entire chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle club has been arrested in California as part of a kidnapping, robbery and assault probe, authorities said Tuesday.

investigation being conducted by India into the alleged plot to kill India-designated terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Wednesday (local time). While addressing a press briefing, Miller noted that they have raised the issue with the Indian government and told them that the US expects full investigation into the matter. Asked about the US State Department's response after the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee wrote a letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling for a strong diplomatic response on the Indian government's involvement in the assassination attempt on Pannun, Miller responded, «So, we will respond to those members privately, as we always do. I won't speak to that here. But as pertains to the other issue, when this issue first arose, we made clear that we had raised it with the Government of India and told them that we expected there to be a full investigation. They have announced that they are conducting an inquiry, and we will look forward to the results of that inquiry.»

Essel Group chairman Subhash Chandra that challenged the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) summons to appear before the capital markets regulator. The division bench of Justice KR Shriram and Justice Jitendra Jain disposed of the writ petition in an oral order after the Sebi informed the court that it was withdrawing the first summons directing Subhas Chandra to be present. However, Chandra will have to furnish the documents sought by the regulator through a communication dated March 27. Chandra, chairman emeritus of Zee Entertainment, was represented by senior counsels Ravi Kadam and Prateek Seksaria.

The Supreme Court has sided with the Biden administration in a dispute with Republican-led states over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security

ED on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that the trial court judge was in a «hurry» and did not afford a reasonable opportunity to the prosecutor to oppose Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's bail in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise scam. The federal probe agency said the June 20 order of the trial court granting regular bail to Kejriwal was «perverse» for non-compliance of prerequisite mandatory conditions under section 45 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). A vacation bench of Justice Manoj Misra and Justice SVN Bhatti took on record the Enforcement Directorate's reply affidavit filed in Kejriwal's plea challenging the interim stay granted by the Delhi High Court on June 21. The bench also allowed Kejriwal to withdraw his plea after senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, appearing for him, said he would file a substantial appeal as the high court has pronounced the final order on June 25, staying the bail order.

Sebi had alleged that Chandra was trying to stop the investigation because he did not respond to the 12 January summons.Chandra argued that Sebi's summons contained allegations couched in a language that implied he was guilty and requested the court to declare the summons invalid and unlawful.He alleged that the summons were biased, unfair, arbitrary and predetermined.Senior counsel Ravi Kadam, appearing for Chandra, stated that the documents called for in the annexed summons will be made available in four weeks.The bench disposed of the matter on Wednesday.In January, Sebi issued multiple summons against Chandra in its investigation pertaining to the alleged fund diversion case. However, Sebi said that Chandra did not respond to those summonses."From a fair reading of the summons, it is apparent that Sebi has already predetermined the petitioner as guilty at the investigation stage itself, without following due process, principles of natural justice, ongoing investigation is nothing but a sham and a formality," the petition by Chandra said.Separately, Janak Dwarkadas, senior counsel representing Zee informed the court that the regulator had issued similar summons to the company.

James Tweed has always been fascinated by the act of learning in isolation. Having started life as a maritime derivatives trader, he founded his company to provide education for people on ships, where there was “not a lot of internet," he says. In recent years, he discovered a new cohort of learners who also can’t get online: prisoners.

Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday congratulated Om Birla on being elected the Lok Sabha speaker and said he hoped that actions like suspension of MPs would not be taken as they hurt the dignity of the House. Yadav said he also hoped that Birla would be impartial towards the opposition and give its leaders equal opportunity.

Boeing as the U.S. Justice Department has until July 7 to decide whether to prosecute the planemaker after prosecutors alleged the company violated a deferred prosecution agreement related to two fatal crashes, with lawyers recommending criminal charges.Officials alleged in May that the 2021 agreement, which shielded Boeing from a criminal charge of conspiracy to commit fraud arising from the 2018 and 2019 fatal crashes involving the 737 MAX jet, had been breached.Arnold & Porter law firm partner Deborah Curtis told Global News the recommendations of charges will add to the impact Boeing has been dealing with in the past months.“This is not something that’s going away easily for Boeing at all,” she said in an interview.

visa fraud. According to a Reuters reports,the three-judge panel unanimously determined that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is not immune from the 2020 lawsuit, as it had entered into contracts with the students to provide educational services. The lawsuit's lead plaintiff, Teja Ravi from India, claims he paid $12,500 to enroll at the "University of Farmington" in Michigan, an institution set up by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a division of DHS, in 2016 to entrap illegal visa brokers. According to DHS, Ravi and others paid the school for fraudulent immigration documents. Ravi allegedly left the United States before DHS could arrest him.

Arvind Kejriwal in the courtroom and asked it to place on record the material that they have for his arrest. Kejriwal was produced before Special Judge Amitabh Rawat. During the proceedings, the CBI sought court's permission to interrogate Kejriwal in the adjoining room so that CBI can proceed with his formal arrest.

Arvind Kejriwal in an alleged money laundering case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has intensified its scrutiny. This move comes as the CBI interrogated Kejriwal at Tihar Jail on Tuesday, where he has been held since his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on March 21. The CBI is now set to approach a Delhi court to seek custody of Kejriwal on Wednesday. According to news reports by India Today, as told to them by sources, the CBI may arrest Arvind Kejriwal and demand his custody. A vacation bench led by Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain granted the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) application to halt the bail order issued by the trial court on June 20. The court criticized the trial judge for what it described as a rushed decision without fully examining the extensive material provided by both parties, calling it «perverse.»

Indian-American couple to prison for coercing their relative to work at their gas station and convenience store for over three years by bringing him to the United States on the pretext of helping enrol him in a school. Harmanpreet Singh, 31, was sentenced to 135 months (11.25 years) in prison and Kulbir Kaur, 43, to 87 months (7.25 years) by the court that also asked them to pay the victim, his cousin, USD 225,210.76 (Rs 1.87 crores approximately) in restitution. The couple has since divorced. «The defendants exploited their relationship with the victim to lure him to the United States with false promises that they would help enrol him in school,» Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division said.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has pleaded guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that secures his liberty and concludes a drawn-out legal saga that raised divisive questions about press freedom and national security. The plea was entered Wednesday morning in federal court in Saipan, the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, an American commonwealth in the Pacific that is relatively close to Assange's native Australia and that accommodated his desire to avoid setting foot inside the continental United States.

Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday praised the appointment of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha and said that the House of the People shall truly reflect the aspirations of the last person standing, with Rahul Gandhi becoming their voice. Congress on Tuesday declared that Rahul Gandhi, party's MP from Raebareli will be Leader of the Opposition in the 18th Lok Sabha, ending the 10-year spell of no LoP in the Lower House since 2014. «In the 18th Lok Sabha, the House of the People shall truly reflect the aspirations of the last person standing, with Rahul Gandhi becoming their voice,» Kharge posted on X.

Delhi High Court on Tuesday stayed a lower court's last week's order granting bail to Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in the excise policy case. Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain observed that the lower court judge granted the bail «without going through and appreciating» the material brought on record by the Enforcement Directorate, «which reflects perversity in the order». Commenting on the lower court's observation that it need not dwell into voluminous documents pertaining to the case, the high court said: «It is not understandable that on one hand, the vacation judge has expressed her inability to go through the entire documents stated to have been running into thousands of pages… and on the other hand, how… (she) has mentioned that relevant arguments and contentions raised on behalf of the parties are dealt with».

Arvind Kejriwal in relation to the Excise Policy case. CBI also got permission for Arvind Kejriwal's production before the concerned trial court tomorrow. He will be produced before the court tomorrow, reported news agency ANI. Earlier during the day, the Delhi High Court stayed the trial court order granting him bail in the money laundering case arising from the alleged excise scam, holding that the lower court did not «appropriately appreciate» the material placed before it by the Enforcement Directorate. A vacation bench of Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain said the ED's contentions assailing the bail order required serious consideration.

Gyanendra Pratap Singh today said that around 200 officers of the Assam police have already received training on criminal forensic science. He was speaking during a workshop on the new criminal laws for Guwahati — based media persons in Guwahati. The workshop aimed to equip journalists with insights into the new criminal laws namely Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam — which will be implemented from July 1. Singh, addressing the media persons, said that the implementation of the new laws is a momentous occasion and Assam Police is fully prepared to implement them. Around 200 officers of the Assam police have already received training on criminal forensic science. The officers are trained on the applicability of new laws and how they should perceive them while dealing with the crime and cases related to it, he added. Over 500 officers will be trained over a period of few months. Singh further added that these criminal laws are updated to the needs and requirements of the changing times.

Julian Assange, the co-founder of WikiLeaks, has been freed after reaching an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice. Assange reached a deal with authorities that will see him plead guilty to violating the Espionage Act.

over 10 sets of nominations were filed in support of Om Birla's candidature, including from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and JP Nadda, and BJP allies like TDP, JD(U), JD(S) and LJP (R). Three sets of nominations were filed in support of Dalit leader and Congress candidate K Suresh.Om Birla was elected to the 16th Lok Sabha after he won from Kota in Rajasthan.