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.
The bench of Justice Suresh Kumar Gupta granted her the anticipatory bail till the conclusion of trial on furnishing a personal bond and two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of the concerned court.
Former forest ministers in the Congress government, Sadhu Singh Dharamsot and Sangat Singh Gilzian have already been booked in alleged corruption cases.
In April, she was sentenced to five years in jail in the first corruption case, where she was accused of accepting a bribe of $600,000 and gold from a former chief minister of Yangon city.
As his bail plea was dismissed by the court of Additional Sessions Judge H.S. Grewal, Daler Mehndi was taken into custody. He was convicted along with his brother in March 2018 and later released on bail.
Actress Amber Heard could face jail over claims she edited injury photographs in her court feud against Johnny Depp.
