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Devendra Fadnavis questioned the "leniency" of the Juvenile Justice Board's punishment meted out to the teen. The Juvenile Justice Board has asked the Juvenile to write a 300-word essay on car accidents and work with the traffic police as community service for 15 days. The Juvenile Justice board also advised the teen to undergo counselling for their drinking.

car accident case to police custody till May 24 on Tuesday. The Porsche car allegedly driven by the 17-year-old, who the police claim was drunk at the time, knocked down two motorbike riders in Kalyani Nagar area in Maharashtra's Pune city in the early hours of Sunday, causing their death, reported PTI, citing officials. According to police reports, the teenager allegedly lost control of the vehicle, leading to the fatal accident. The victims were identified as motorbike riders who succumbed to their injuries on the spot. The juvenile's father, a real estate developer, has been detained.

The Biden administration’s push to reclassify marijuana as a less-dangerous drug is going forward without the support of the nation’s premier narcotics agency

Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren's bail plea, refusing to grant bail. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta said it will hear the plea on May 22 after hearing the case for an hour. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, representing Soren cited the case of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and asked the court to release the JMM leader him to campaign for the Lok Sabha elections. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had opposed Soren’s bail plea on May 20. In its affidavit, the ED argued that evidence establishes Soren's involvement in the illegal acquisition and possession of properties. The ED argued that campaigning for election was neither a fundamental, constitutional, nor a legal right.

Amal Clooney helped the International Criminal Court weigh evidence that led to the decision to seek arrest warrants for top Israeli and Hamas leaders, the human rights lawyer said Monday. The high-profile British-Lebanese barrister posted a statement on the website of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, which she founded with her husband, American actor George Clooney.

Pune Police have detained the father of the minor who is accused in the hit and run case in which two persons have lost their lives. Vishal Agarwal, the father of the teen, has been detained from Sambhajinagar this morning, revealed Pune Commissioner of Police Amitesh Kumar. The father of the accused and the bar which served liquor to the juvenile accused are being proceeded against under Sections 75 and 77 of the Juvenile Justice Act, Kumar added. Two individuals, including a young woman, lost their lives after a luxury car collided with their motorcycle near Kalyani Nagar in Pune in the early hours of Sunday. The deceased have been identified as Anis Awadhiya and Ashwini Costa. The tragic incident occurred at about 3:15 am.

Alphabet's Google has preemptively paid damages to the U.S. government, an unusual move aimed at avoiding a jury trial in the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit over its digital advertising business. Google disclosed the payment, but not the amount, in a court filing last week that said the case should be heard and decided by a judge directly. Without a monetary damages claim, Google argued, the government has no right to a jury trial.

Calcutta High Court on Monday came down heavily on the Election Commission of India for not resolving complaints filed by political parties during the Lok Sabha elections.

Delhi High Court has refused to direct all the medical professionals in the country to specify to the patient all possible risks and side effects associated with a drug, or a pharmaceutical product being prescribed. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora dismissed a PIL filed by Kerala-based social worker Jacob Vadakkanchery, also a naturopath, seeking a mandate from the government that medical professionals should specify the side effects in an additional slip in the regional language along with the prescription. «Since the legislature in its wisdom has elected to impose this duty on the manufacturer and the pharmacist (to state about side effects), we do not find any ground for issuing a direction as prayed for in this PIL as it would amount to judicial legislation,» the HC said in its May 15 order. The judges noted that while Vadakkanchery had admitted there are safeguards under the existing law with respect to apprising the patient about the possible side effects of the prescribed drugs, the Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1945 obliges the manufacturer or its agent importing the drug to provide a package insert which shall duly disclose the side effects of the drugs to the consumer.

Justice Chitta Ranjan Dash, who retired as a judge of the Calcutta High Court on Monday, said he was a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Speaking at his farewell at the high court in the presence of the judges and members of the bar, Justice Dash said he was «ready to go back to the organisation» if they called him for any assistance or for any work that he was capable of doing.

Google is asking that a federal judge, rather than a jury, decide whether it violated U.S. antitrust laws by building a monopoly on the technology that powers online advertising

Hardeep Puri said, "In today's day, the fact that needs to be reiterated is that there are 1 crore people riding on the metro every day, and out of the 1 crore people, 73 lakh are the ridership of the capital region of Delhi." "Today, even though the population of the city is expanding massively, it is still easy to get from one part of the city to the other within a reasonable period of time. More people are taking to urban transport," he said.

DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal alleged that the closed circuit cameras at the chief minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence were being tampered with and his aide Bibhav Kumar had formatted his mobile phone. In its remand note, police have said a portion of the footage from the CCTV cameras at the chief minister's residence is showing blank. Maliwal took to social media to stress this point. Referring to the 2012 Delhi gangrape-murder, she posted on X, «There was a time when he hit the streets to get justice for Nirbhaya. Twelve years later, they are hitting the streets to save an accused who deleted CCTV footage and formatted the phone. I wish they had tried so hard for Manish Sisodia. If he was here, maybe something so bad would not have happened to me.» Sisodia, Delhi's former deputy chief minister, is in jail for over a year now in the Delhi liquor policy case. Maliwal has alleged that Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar assaulted her on May 13 when she went to the CM's residence to meet him. AAP has trashed her allegations.

NEW DELHI : Telecom service providers including Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Tata Communications are set to save about ₹3,000 crore following a Supreme Court order released on Sunday. The apex court has waived off the interest levy on tax arising from its October 2023 ruling that said annual licence fees paid by telcos would be treated as capital expenditure, which are not tax deductible. The SC had overturned a 2013 Delhi High Court ruling that had said licence fees comprised revenue expenditure and were not taxable.

Artificial intelligence built on mountains of potentially biased information has created a real risk of automating discrimination, but is there any way to re-educate the machines? The question for some is extremely urgent. In this ChatGPT era, AI will generate more and more decisions for health care providers, bank lenders or lawyers, using whatever was scoured from the internet as source material.

Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal, who has been accused by her party of being part of a conspiracy to frame Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a false case, on Sunday said her party colleagues once sought justice for Nirbhaya but today they are supporting a person accused of assaulting her. She said if AAP leader and former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, who is in jail in connection with the Delhi excise police case, had been here «maybe things wouldn't have been so bad for me!» Maliwal has alleged that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar assaulted her on May 13 when she went to the CM's residence to meet him. The Aam Aadmi Party has trashed her allegations and claimed Maliwal was acting at the behest of the BJP to frame Kejriwal in a fake case. Maliwal, who has been associated with the AAP since its inception more than 10 years ago, said on Sunday there was a time when «we all used to come out on the streets to get justice for Nirbhaya».

National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has allowed IL&FS arm IL&FS Transportation Networks to offload its shares in Moradabad Bareilly Expressway to the Roadstar Infra Investment Trust (InvIT). The two-member bench, comprising Justice Prabhat Kumar and Justice V G Bisht, in an order approved the transfer of 3,21,40,691 equity shares, which represents the balance shareholding of 14.5 per cent held by IL&FS Transportation Networks in Moradabad Bareilly Expressway, to the Roadstar Infra Investment Trust. The proposed transaction was approved by the new board of IL&FS and the IL&FS Transportation Networks (ITNL) Board on October 6, 2023. The Union Bank of India has filed an affidavit in reply on April 26, 2024, conveying its no objection to the proposed sale.

₹100 crore to malign the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and to tarnish the image of JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy in Prajwal Revanna's obscene video case. Also Read: 'Prajwal Revanna raped my mother, forced me to strip on video call': Woman recounts horror to police "Let him file a complaint to Lokayukta or anyone.

Supreme Court Collegium headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud has recommended to the Centre the names of two additional judges for appointment as permanent judges of the Gauhati High Court. The Collegium, also comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and B R Gavai, recommended that Justice Rajesh Sekhri be appointed as an additional judge of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court for a fresh term of one year with effect from July 29, 2024. "… the Collegium resolves to recommend that Justice Susmita Phukan Khaund and Justice Mitali Thakuria, additional judges, be appointed as permanent judges of the Gauhati High Court against the existing vacancies," said one of the Collegium resolutions uploaded on the apex court website. It noted that the Collegium of the Gauhati High Court had unanimously recommended on April 1 the names of these two judges for appointment as permanent judges.

WASHINGTON: Some of Donald Trump's allies are assembling proposals to curtail the Justice Department's independence and turn the nation's top law enforcement body into an attack dog for conservative causes, nine people involved in the effort told Reuters. If successful, the overhaul could represent one of the most consequential actions of a second Trump presidency given the Justice Department's role in protecting democratic institutions and upholding the rule of law.

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