The plea of a 2008 Malegaon blast accused to use a transistor inside prison on grounds that underworld don Abu Salem is being allowed to use one, has alerted the special MCOCA court.

In a judgment against Reliance Communication (Rcom) a consumer forum has asked it to pay a `6,000 fine to its customer Subash Kharat for causing him mental agony.

The sessions court has imposed a fine on the defence counsels in the Nooriya Haveliwala case, as they had sought an adjournment in the case to cross-examine witnesses later in the court.

The 120 Somalian pirates who are currently lodged at Taloja Jail will henceforth not be brought to court, but will face the trial via video-conferencing.

The sessions court on Monday handed life sentences to two youngsters, Sandeep Singh and Ajay Singh, who had abducted a 12-year-old boy in February 2010.

The sessions court has rejected the application filed by one of the accused in the Aurangabad arms haul case.

The Bombay high court on Friday quashed the special court’s order refusing CBI custody of former Congress MLC and a prime accused in the Adarsh housing scam, Kanhaiyalal Gidwani.

Congress leader and former MLC Kanhaiyalal Gidwani and his son were arrested by the CBI on Tuesday in connection with the Adarsh Housing Society scam. Bombay high court’s CBI retainer Mandar Goswami has also been arrested for allegedly accepting illegal gratification of `1.25 crore from the duo to “weaken the case” against them. A sessions court has remanded all three of them to police custody till March 16.

The sessions court on Wednesday granted immunity to actor Fardeen Khan in the 2001 drug case. However, the court clarified that if he was caught again committing a similar crime, the immunity would be withdrawn.

The Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court on Monday acquitted the four accused in the case of kidnapping and murdering 16-year-old Adnan Patrawala on the grounds that the prosecution failed