

Monday 9 November '09
While buying a bar of chocolate or a pack of juice at a cineplex, did you ever wish to drag the hall owner to court for charging you more than the maximum retail price printed on the items?Thursday 5 November '09
Police personnel at the Hazrat Nizamuddin police station have a new job at hand — learning how to issue proclamation notices against absconding offenders.Tuesday
3 November '09A judgment that may serve to deter rapists from maligning a victim’s reputation, a city court has held that an accused was not permitted to raise questions on a victim’s character and defend himself by claiming that she was of easy virtue.Monday
2 November '09A city court found itself in a Catch-22 situation when it discovered that whichever way it decided to go while deciding a case, it could never have a just and desired result.Thursday
29 October '09Over five years after a 10-year-old girl accused a piano teacher of Delhi School of Music of molestation, a city court pronounced him guilty on Wednesday.Wednesday
28 October '09Research scholar Pushpam Kumar Sinha, accused in the murder of Manipur teen Ramchanphy Hongray, was married in 2003 but his wife Poonam left him five years later, the police have said.Tuesday
27 October '09A Delhi court on Monday issued a non-bailable warrant against former Union communication minister Sukh Ram for not appearing before it in connection with a 13-year-old corruption case....Monday
26 October '09Sounding a reality check of sorts, a city court has held that a man who helps his father in the latter’s business, has a legal status of merely a “servant” and hence cannot claim rights on the enterprise or property.Saturday
24 October '09Ignoring an assurance by the Embassy of Palestine regarding one of its nationals arrested in the Capital for cheating and forgery, a city court has refused to grant him bail.Friday
23 October '09A woman, her husband and father-in-law have escaped a jail term for beating up the woman’s mother after a city court held that a 12-year long trial was too much of an agony.Wednesday
21 October '09The “undue haste” shown by the doctor, unbelievable swiftness demonstrated by the police officer in reaching the hospital to record her statement...Tuesday
20 October '09A city court held last week that an HIV-positive man could not make his disease an excuse to deny his estranged wife and children financial maintenance.Tuesday
20 October '09The death of Ashutosh Asthana, a key accused in the Ghaziabad Provident Fund scam, in an accident comes as yet another blow...Monday
19 October '09Two years after the former vice-principal of a government school was given a year’s jail term by a trial court for parading a Class-VI student naked for three hours in 1997 after the boy took a dip in the school tank, a sessions court...Friday
16 October '09It was supposed to be a perfect murder — a businessman suffers a fatal gunshot injury while his accountant gets killed by assailants who barge into his Greater Kailash-I house and opens indiscriminate fire.Friday
9 October '09The Delhi Police have filed a 700-page chargesheet under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act against the five men arrested for involvement in the murder of TV journalist Soumya Viswanathan.Friday
9 October '09A city court has sent out a warning to the senior management of banks and finance companies that hire agents to recover money.Wednesday
7 October '09In the latest interpretation of the Domestic Violence Act, a city court has held that while the legislation must come to the aid of women in distress, it cannot grant relief, even to an unmarried sister, if she appears to be monetarily competent.Tuesday
6 October '09Business rivalry between two leading airhostess training institutes has landed the top officer of one in trouble.Sunday
4 October '09The CBI on Saturday sought a city court’s nod to bring the curtains down on the two-decades-long prosecution against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the Bofors case.Friday
2 October '09A City court on Wednesday threw out the petition of Romesh Sharma, alleged front man of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, against a two year-jail term awarded for evading income tax worth Rs 50 crore.Thursday
24 September '09In a rare order, a Delhi court recently directed a man to pay his ex-wife, Salma, Rs 9 lakh in maintenance along with money...Wednesday
23 September '09A legal wrangle that lasted for 12 years has finally worked out in favour of Salma, a divorced woman who sought alimony from...Tuesday
22 September '09The problem of illegibility, it appears, has become a crisis hard to get rid of in an institution not known for it — courts.Tuesday
22 September '09A Delhi government school literally hit the ‘wall’ of controversy, after it decided to go ahead with the construction of a wall — even though it was illegal.