The Jharkhand High Court said that municipal elections in Jharkhand need to happen within four months. This is because the elections have been delayed because the State Election Commission hasn't gotten the updated voter lists it needs. The High Cour...
A 31 year old female postgraduate trainee doctor was brutally raped and murdered at R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on August 9 2024. She was found in a seminar hall on the third floor of the hospital's TB ward late at night where sh...
Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav from the Allahabad High Court told Chief Justice Arun Bhansali that his speech at a VHP event was ok according to judicial rules and the constitution. This happened after the Supreme Court Collegium asked him about his spe...
A court in India just said no to Azam Khan's appeal about his sentence. He tried to get his two-year prison term and fine of 3000 rupees thrown out but it didn't work. This all started back in 2008 when he and his son were said to have blocked a road...
The Telangana High Court finished a really old case on January 9th It was about some property stuff from way back in the Nizam era and it had been going on for 66 years. It started in 1953 when a lady named Sultana Jahan Begum wanted her share of som...
The Allahabad High Court decided to keep Mohammed Zubair from being arrested until January 27th. This happened because of a social media post Zubair made about Yati Narsinghanand. This post led to a police report against Zubair. The judges in the cas...
Akula Naresh, who is 24 years old from Nagarkurnool District, got a 20-year prison sentence. This happened on Thursday, January 16th, at a court in Hyderabad. He was found guilty of sexually assaulting a minor. The police first filed the case at the ...
Prashant Kishor, who started the Jan Suraaj Party, just finished a 14-day fast he was doing. He was fasting because he thought there were problems with a big exam the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) had on December 13. Basically he wanted them...
The Allahabad High Court has decided to keep Mohammed Zubair safe from arrest until January 27. This is because there's a case against him about a social media post he made. It involves a religious figure named Yati Narsinghanand. The judges want to ...
Ramkhelavan from Bankepur Saraiya went to court on Wednesday to give his side of the story. He wants to file a case against Amit Shah a high-ranking government official. Ramkhelavan says that Amit Shah said some bad things about B.R. Ambedkar during ...
The Indian government asked officials from a bunch of countries to come celebrate 150 years of the India Meteorological Department or IMD. They want people from places that used to be part of India when the IMD started. This includes countries like P...
Joseph Aoun who is 60 years old and was the Lebanese Army commander was just picked to be Lebanon’s new president. It took two rounds of voting in parliament to make it happen. They haven't had a president for two years and tried twelve times before ...
On January 13th 2025 the court in Islamabad Pakistan said no to three bail requests from Bushra Bibi. She's the wife of the former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The judge Muhammad Afzal Mujoka heard what both sides had to say the lawyer for the governme...
Senior Judge Sujoy Paul is now the Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court. This happened after the previous Chief Justice, Alok Aradhe, moved to the Bombay High Court to be their Chief Justice. The change happened in March 2024 when Judge Paul cam...
The Bombay High Court recently looked into the Elgar Parishad case from 2018 and said it's not okay to keep people in jail for too long without a trial. They said that keeping people locked up like that goes against their basic right to live and be f...
Asaram was let out of the hospital in Jodhpur late Tuesday night. He got temporary bail from the Rajasthan High Court in a rape case from 2013. Asaram was arrested back on September 2 2013 and was in jail. He was found guilty on April 25 2018 for rap...
The Telangana High Court in Hyderabad made a decision that police can take stolen gold jewelry even if it's with gold loan companies. This happened after some companies like Manappuram Gold Finance tried to argue that because they're approved by the ...
Justice Sujoy Paul is now the Acting Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court. This happened because the previous Chief Justice moved to another court. The President of India made it official and Justice Paul is now in charge. Justice Paul has worke...
The Delhi High Court will decide later if Tahir Hussain gets temporary bail. He wants to be out of jail so he can file papers and campaign for the election. He’s running for a seat in Mustafabad with a party called AIMIM. His lawyer, Rebecca John, sp...
There's a new issue in Aligarh, India, about the Jama Masjid. A local leader says the mosque was built on top of an old Shiva temple and he wants the court to look into it. This comes up as other religious sites in India have similar disputes. The ma...
