High court to get new Chandigarh building to store recordsNovember 13th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The Punjab and Haryana High Court has run out of space to store its judicial records and will soon get a new building here to store these. Punjab Governor and Chandigarh Administrator S.F.
Balco power plant chimney collapse probe beginsNovember 3rd, 2009 RAIPUR - A single-member judicial commission Tuesday began its probe into the Sep 23 accident at the under-construction Balco power plant when a chimney collapsed, killing 41 contract workers. Sandeep Bakhshi, the district and sessions court judge who is probing the tragedy, told reporters at Korba town - the site of the plant, some 250 km from here - that the commission was tasked to conduct its inquiry on six points and would submit its report to the government in a period of three months.
Former Jharkhand minister sent to judicial custodyOctober 30th, 2009 RANCHI - Former Jharkhand minister Bandhu Tirkey was Friday remanded in 14 days of judicial custody in a seven-year-old case of violating prohibitory orders. Bandhu Tirkey is charged with violating section 144 of CrPC (criminal procedore code), which prohibits assembly of four or more, in 2002.
Fortnight's judicial custody for IIT scholarOctober 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A city court Tuesday sent a 34-year-old PhD scholar of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, held for the murder of a Manipuri teenager, to 14 days judicial custody. Metropolitan Magistrate Saurabh Singh sent Pushpum Sinha to 14 days judicial custody for allegedly killing his 19-year-old neighbour, Ramchanphy Hongray.
Uttar Pradesh official fined Rs.50,000October 24th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Allahabad High Court Saturday fined an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer in Uttar Pradesh Rs.50,000 for non-compliance of its order for payment of due interest to a government employee's widow. Justice D.P.
Enforcement officials to quiz former Jharkhand ministersOctober 15th, 2009 RANCHI - A special court here Thursday remanded former Jharkhand ministers Harinarayan Rai and Enos Ekka - already in jail on graft charges - in custody of Enforcement Directorate for ten days for questioning. Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court judge Pankaj Kumar accepted the plea of the Enforcement Directorate officials to remand the two in their custody for ten days.
Kobad Ghandy remanded in judicial custodyOctober 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A city court Thursday sent Kobad Ghandy, the arrested leader of the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) outfit, to 14 days in judicial custody after expiry of his police remand. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja sent Ghandy to judicial custody till Oct 29.
Mahato gets 14 day judicial custodyOctober 10th, 2009 KOLKATA - A West Bengal court Saturday remanded arrested Peoples Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) leader Chattradhar Mahato in judicial custody for 14 days, police sources said. The Jhargram sub-divisional court in West Midnapore district ordered that Mahato be kept in judicial custody till Oct 23, turning down the appeal of the state Criminal Investigation Department (CID) which had sought 15 days more police remand of the tribal leader.
Chhattradhar Mahato's police custody extended till Oct 10October 7th, 2009 KOLKATA - A West Bengal court Wednesday remanded Chhattradhar Mahato, tribal leader arrested from restive Lalgarh, to police custody for three more days. Mahato, leader of the People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCAPA), was brought to the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate's court of Jhargram in West Midnapore district and the court sent him to three days of police custody.
Kobad Ghandy sent to police custodyOctober 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A city court Monday sent arrested Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) leader Kobad Ghandy to three days' police custody. The Delhi Police contended before the court that they need to interrogate him and wanted to take him to Mumbai to cross-check certain facts to proceed further in the case.
Kobad Ghandy sent to police custody till Oct 8October 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A city court Monday sent arrested Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) leader Kobad Ghandy to three days' police custody. The Delhi Police contended before the court that they need to interrogate him to proceed further in the case.
Alert for fleeing Chinese nationals, no one held: OfficialsSeptember 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI/RAIPUR - Indian airport authorities are on the lookout for Chinese nationals who have fled from a Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (Balco) plant in Chhattisgarh, after an under-construction chimney collapsed killing 45 people, but no one has been detained till now, officials said Sunday. "About 70 Chinese nationals, mostly engineers, have left Korba town amid rising death toll of workers," a police source told IANS in Raipur.
Woman travelling on forged passport sent to jailSeptember 21st, 2009 KOLKATA - A woman, arrested at Kolkata airport for travelling on a forged passport, was sent to seven days judicial custody by a West Bengal court Monday. According to police sources, Jyoti Rana, 40, was remanded in seven days judicial custody by the Barrackpore court Monday afternoon.
Judicial custody for men who travelled with murdered Muthoot scionSeptember 10th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Two alleged criminals who are suspected to have travelled with Paul M. George - scion of Kerala's Muthoot business group - the night he was murdered were sent to two weeks of judicial custody by a court here Thursday.
Muthoot murder: Judicial custody for two co-travellersSeptember 10th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Two alleged criminals who travelled with Kerala's Muthoot business group scion Paul M. George the night he was murdered were Thursday sent to two weeks of judicial custody by a court here.
