"The conviction under IPC Sections 302 (murder) and 326 (b) (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by use of acid) is upheld. The death sentence is commuted to life imprisonment," the bench said.
The court asked the Centre, the Delhi University and the University Grants Commission to file a reply on a plea filed by advocate Charanpal Singh Bagri challenging DU's new admission norms for undergraduate courses.
"We are aware of the situation in several districts of Maharashtra...we are aware of the seriousness of the situation. The government should not delay in filing an affidavit stating what steps it has taken," the court said.
The Telangana High Court Wednesday directed the state government and the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) to declare the results of re-verified answer scripts and upload answer sheets of all failed students by May 27. A notice was also issued to IT firm Globarena Technologies, which handled the intermediate results, asking its representatives to appear before the court. The court posted the matter to June 6 for further hearing.
Haasan moved the plea after the court earlier refused to quash an FIR against him, saying such pleas cannot be taken up as emergent petitions during the vacation and that if an anticipatory bail application was filed it could be taken up for hearing.
The exams were held February and March this year and the results were declared on April 18.
The Delhi High Court has dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking a ban on Kashmiri leaders Mehbooba Mufti, Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah from participating in the Lok Sabha elections.
The Supreme Court on Friday said the collegium recommendations for the appointment of judges to different High Courts was being cleared by the government and only 27 recommendations were pending.
Only 73 judges out of the 670 judges serving in various high courts are women, the government has informed a parliamentary committee.
The Supreme Court collegium has recommended the elevation of Karnataka High Court Chief Justice Dinesh Maheshwari and Justice Sanjiv Sanjiv Khanna of the Delhi High Court to the apex court.
Governor E S L Narasimhan sworn-in Acting Chief Justice C Praveen Kumar and 13 other judges at a function in nearby Vijayawada.
Justice Badar had been conducting hearings on a daily basis since July 4 on the five revision pleas filed by Sohrabuddin Shaikh's brother Rubabuddin Shaikh and the CBI.
Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday said the government will file an appeal in High Court against a ruling by an international tribunal which rejected its USD 1.55 billion claims against Reliance Industries for allegedly siphoning gas from fields operated by state-owned ONGC
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted interim protection to former Finance Minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media money laundering case
Sacred Games contains a scene in the fourth episode in which lead actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui is seen abusing Rajiv Gandhi.
It directed all the authorities to place a report before it in four weeks on the action taken by them to address the issue and listed the matter for further hearing on August 28.
On Friday, Lalu Yadav – who is serving jail sentence in Ranchi after being convicted in multiple fodder scam-related cases – had arrived in Patna on Friday to attend his son Tej Pratap Yadav’s wedding on Saturday.
Writing to the chief justice, Mufti requested him for establishment of the special fast track court for the case, official sources said.
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