A local court in Kota has awarded a three-year jail term to former Rajasthan MLA Bhawani Singh Rajawat in a two and a half years old case related to slapping a forest service officer.
Actor Allu Arjun was released in the early hours on Saturday from Chanchalguda jail after spending the night there even though he had secured interim bail from the Telangana High Court.
A former excise officer was sentenced to two-year rigorous imprisonment on Saturday after a Special Vigilance Court found him guilty of amassing disproportionate assets by corruptive practices.
In a drastic move to curb paper leaks and cheating in public examinations, the Odisha Cabinet headed by Chief Minister Mohan Majhi on Wednesday approved the framing of a new legislation to curb multiplicity of exam-related irregularities.
The Arvind Kejriwal government has submitted a proposal in this regard to Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena for his nod.
Prem Prakash who is in incarceration for the last 18 months, had moved the top court against Jharkhand High Court order denying him bail in the matter.
Mithlesh Kumar Jha engaged himself in deceptive practices to overcome the financial crisis he has been facing since the outbreak of Covid pandemic.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the convict and failure to pay would result in his sentence being increased by two years.
Death of Mafia don Mukhtar Ansari during judicial custody in Banda jail on March 28 and the allegations of his family that he was poisoned, seems to have gone on the back burner.
"The demands of the farmers are genuine. It is the constitutional right of every citizen to make a peaceful protest. It is therefore, incorrect to arrest the farmers," AAP minister Kailash Gahlot said in his reply to the Centre.
