India court eases Diwali firecracker ban despite pollution
- 15-Oct-2025
NEW DELHI: India’s top court on Wednesday permitted the use of some firecrackers in New Delhi during the Diwali festival, easing a blanket ban even as the capital battles unhealthy winter air pollution. The Supreme Court said the controlled use of the less-polluting “green firecrackers” — developed by federal research institutes to reduce particulate and […]
Indian court sentences Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik to life-imprisonment
- 25-May-2022
New Delhi: An Indian court has sentenced the illegally detained Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik, to life imprisonment in concocted cases to punish him for his leading role in the ongoing movement for Jammu and Kashmir’s freedom from Indian illegal occupation. Special Judge of India’s notorious National Investigation Agency (NIA), Praveen […]
Gyanvapi Masjid case: India’s top court revokes ban prayer gatherings
- 17-May-2022
India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a local order to ban large Muslim prayer gatherings in a Gyanvapi mosque in north India after a survey team claimed it found relics of the Hindu god Shiva and other Hindu symbols there. The top court in an interim order stated Muslims’ right to prayer should not be […]
India: Man asks ransom for boy he never ‘abducted’
- 24-Sep-2021
A 26-year-old male has been convicted by an Indian court for demanding ransom for the release of a minor whom he had never kidnapped, a foreign news agency reported. The order read that the convict Kalim Isshaq Ansari has been found guilty under section 387 on the Indian Penal Code (putting any person in fear […]
Indian court extends custody of Shilpa Shetty’s husband Raj Kundra
- 23-Jul-2021
An Indian court on Friday extended the custody of Raj Kundra, a businessman married to popular Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, police said, in a pornography case that has stunned the country’s film industry. Mumbai police on Monday arrested Kundra in a case related to the production of pornographic films by his company, and on Friday, […]
Indian apex court blind to miscarriage of justice in IoK: President Alvi
- 09-Oct-2019
President Dr Arif Alvi has said the Indian Supreme Court's record on Kashmir and minority issues had darkened over the last few years.
Indian court acquits 6 of killing Muslim dairy farmer in cow vigilante case
- 15-Aug-2019
The 2017 attack on Pehlu Khan and his two sons by a suspected mob of cow vigilantes caused public outrage
Shutdown in Kashmir against hearing of Article 35-A by Indian court
- 13-Feb-2019
Article 35-A bars outsiders from acquiring any immovable property in J&K, while Article 370 grants a special status to the territory under the Indian Constitution
Indian court upholds death sentences over horrific 2012 gang-rape
- 09-Jul-2018
NEW DELHI: India’s top court on Monday upheld death sentences for three men convicted over the notorious 2012 gang-rape and murder of a woman that sparked national protests and soul-searching. Jyoti Singh, a physiotherapy student, was raped and left for dead by a gang of five men and a teenager on a bus in the […]
Indian court sentences two Mumbai 1993 blasts convicts to death
- 07-Sep-2017
MUMBAI: A special court on Thursday sentenced two convicts to death and two others to life in jail for their involvement in India’s most deadly bombings, a series of blasts in the financial capital that killed 257 people in 1993, reported Indian Media. A special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act court sentenced Tahir Merchant and […]