Today, On 9th April, Almost three months after the attack on actor Saif Ali Khan, the police have filed a chargesheet in a Mumbai court. The incident had drawn significant public attention. Authorities completed their investigation and submitted the report detailing the case. Legal proceedings are now expected to move forward.
A man has been sentenced to two years in jail for making a threat call against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. In a verdict issued on March 29, First Class Judicial Magistrate (Esplanade Court) Hemant Joshi rejected the defense’s claim that the accused, Kamran Khan, was mentally unstable. The case dates back to 2023 when Khan allegedly issued the threats. The ruling highlights the seriousness of making such threatening calls against public officials.
Mumbai: A Mumbai court has refused to take action on actress Tanushree Dutta’s complaint against veteran actor Nana Patekar and others regarding an alleged sexual harassment incident from 2008. The court ruled that the case was time-barred, meaning it was filed too late according to the legal deadline.
A Mumbai court has given Kangana Ranaut one final chance to appear before it considers issuing a non-bailable warrant in the defamation case brought by Javed Akhtar. Akhtar’s lawyer requested the warrant due to Ranaut’s consistent absences from nearly 40 scheduled court dates. She has attributed her non-appearance to parliamentary commitments. This legal dispute dates back to 2020, and mediation efforts are still ongoing.
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Mumbai: Today(19th Jan): A court in Mumbai has given the city police five days of custody of Shariful Islam Shehzad, a Bangladeshi national arrested for allegedly breaking into actor Saif Ali Khan’s house. The incident took place late on Wednesday night, during which the accused reportedly injured the actor and his staff.
A special court in Mumbai, under the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Act, on Monday extended its own order to temporarily suspend the bailable warrant issued to former BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur in the 2008 Malegaon blast case. Earlier this month, Pragya Thakur’s lawyer submitted that she was undergoing treatment at a Meerut hospital and would remain present in court on or before December 30, 2024.
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Lyricist Javed Akhtar has been acquitted in a defamation case after the complainant, Advocate Santosh Dubey, withdrew the allegations regarding Akhtar’s comments about the RSS. The Mumbai court closed the matter on November 8, highlighting the complexities of free speech versus accountability in India’s socio-political discourse.
A Mumbai court sentenced Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut to 15 days in jail for defamation against BJP leader Kirit Somaiya and his wife, Medha Somaiya. Raut’s accusations regarding a Rs 100 crore scam involving public toilets were deemed baseless, resulting in the conviction and imposed fine under defamation laws.