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 On Friday, a Magistrate’s Court remanded Partho Dasgupta, an Ex-CEO of the rating agency Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), to Police Custody till December 28 in the alleged fake TRP scam. Dasgupta was arrested by the Mumbai crime branch from Pune district on Thursday and produced before the court on Friday. The police sought his remand for further probe, saying his custodial interrogation was required to understand his role in the scam. Dasgupta’s Lawyer Kamlesh Ghumre argued that the offences of cheating and criminal breach of trust for which he has been booked were not made out against him. The probe was harassment and use of pressuring tactics by police, the lawyer alleged. The police sought his remand for further probe, saying his custodial interrogation was required to understand his role in the scam. Dasgupta’s lawyer Kamlesh Ghumre argued that the offences of cheating and criminal breach of trust for which he has been booked were not made out against him. The probe wa

 On Jan 4, the Apex Court will hear an appeal from Ex-India goalkeeper Kalyan Chaubey, who has sought elections in the All India Football Federation (AIFF), a source confirmed to the news agency on Saturday. Chaubey, who played for the senior national team from 1999-2006, had moved the Supreme Court earlier this month with an appeal to not extend the mandate of the current executive committee of the AIFF & hold fresh elections at an early date. He has also pleaded in the top court to correct the election eligibility process so that former players can also contest the elections & be part of AIFF's decision making. Speaking to the news agency, Chaubey had earlier said, "I have simply demanded two things. One, according to the National Sports Code, the way AIFF is being run currently is not as per to the rules. AIFF should follow the Supreme Court judgment in this regard, i.e., hold proper elections to run the committee. "Secondly, the AIFF has put a very strange con

 A Court in Maharashtra's Thane has awarded life imprisonment to a 32-year-old man, who worked as a cook, for killing his colleague in 2015 over a financial issue. District Judge Hemant Patwardhan held Anil Rajbir Valmiki guilty under the Indian Penal Code sections 302 (murder) and 342 (wrongful confinement) on Wednesday and also pronounced the quantum of sentence. The Court also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on him. Valmiki worked with a catering firm in Thane city. He and victim Sudhir Kameshwar Singh (33), who was his colleague, resided in the same locality. Singh had borrowed around Rs 5,000 from Valmiki, which he failed to return despite repeated reminders. Annoyed over it, Valmiki took the victim to his place in Vartak Nagar in the city on July 31, 2015, and attacked him with a metal object, following which he died, additional public prosecutor, Varsha Chandane said. She said that 2 days later, Valmiki surrendered before the police, after which the victim's highly decomposed

 The Allahabad High Court has quashed an FIR against a person who had allegedly tweeted that "Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has transformed the state into a jungleraj in which no law and order prevails". Hearing a Writ Petition filed by Yashwant Singh against whom the FIR was lodged at Bhognipur police station in Rama Bai Nagar district, a bench comprising of Justice Pankaj Naqvi and Justice Vivek Agarwal observed, "Expressing dissent on law-and-order situation in the state is a hallmark of a constitutional liberal democracy like ours, constitutionally protected under Article 19 of the Constitution." "We after analysing the provisions under Section 66-D of IT Act, qua allegation made in the FIR, do not find even remotely a commission of offence under the said section. In so far Section 500 IPC is concerned, same is also not made out as the alleged tweet cannot be said to fall within the mischief of defamation," the bench observed while quash

 On Sunday, some office bearers and members of Bar Council of Delhi urged Union Home Minister Amit Shah to take action regarding the search conducted by Delhi Police at the premises of Advocate Mehmood Pracha, a Lawyer representing some of the accused in the north-east Delhi riots cases as the matter now becoming serious day by day. In the letter, the Lawyers stated before the Honourable Home Minister that there has been an understanding between the representatives of the Bar Association/Bar Council and the Delhi Police that in case of any case against an Advocate, the Bar Association/Bar Council representatives will be informed and taken into confidence. BCD Vice chairman Himal Akhtar and its members K C Mittal and Rajiv Khosla while mentioning that Delhi Police comes under the under the Ministry of Home Affairs also fetched attention of the Department to the BCI Rules as per which an Advocate shall not, directly or indirectly, commit a breach of obligations imposed under Section-126

 A Single Judge Bench of the Delhi High Court consisting of- Justice Anup Jairam, in the case of Mohd Shahabuddin vs State Govt Of NCT Delhi & Anr, has while espousing the basic legal rights of a prisoner ruled that: once a prisoner obtains custody parole in a case, he need not obtain permission from every court where he has been convicted or is pending trial. Factual Background                                        The petitioner, who was a convict and an undertrial in custody in Tihar Jail in Delhi in case arising from an FIR registered /Ss. 302/120-B/34 IPC and section 27 Arms Act - sought custody parole. Notice in this petition was issued- whereupon status report was filed by the concerned Jail Superintendent, Central Jail, Tihar and nominal roll was received from the prison authorities. A separate status report was filed by the S.H.O. since the petitioner’s case was being overseen by that police station in Delhi. The petitioner had moved the Hon’ble Supreme Court for seeking

 Alawyer from Punjab allegedly died by suicide by consuming poison on Sunday a few kilometres from the farmers' protest site at Tikri border. The deceased Lawyer, identified as Amarjit Singh from Jalalabad in Punjab's Fazilka district, was taken to the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) in Rohtak where doctors declared him dead on arrival, news agency PTI reported police as saying. According to the report, Singh, in a purported suicide note, said he was sacrificing his life in support of the farmers' agitation against the Centre's new farm laws so that the government is compelled to listen to the voice of the people. Singh wrote that the common people such as farmers and labourers are feeling "defrauded" due to the three "black" agriculture laws and "the worst life is inevitable".The police said they are verifying the authenticity of the suicide note, dated December 18. "We have informed the relatives of the deceased a