In the backdrop of increasing financial scams in the country, the Supreme Court has in an important verdict ruled that a person cannot claim immunity from prosecution in such cases merely on returning the swindled money as the law of the land does not “exonerate” a person from criminal liability once a prima facie case is made out against him.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing the 2G spectrum scam, is now preparing to question MP Kanimozhi, daughter of DMK supremo M. Karunanidhi and four others, in connection with alleged transfer of `200 crores to Chennai-based Kalaignar TV by a company linked telecom promoter Shahid Balwa on May 12. The ED is also

A 34-year-old woman jumped from the second floor of Dwarka district court complex in southwest Delhi on Friday afternoon.
The police said that the victim, identified as Neelam, a housewife and a resident of Roshanpura, Najafgarh, had come for appearance as a “witness” in a case at the Dwarka courts. “The victim went to the second floor and jumped from one of the windows,” DCP (southwest), A.K. Ojha said.

With swearing in of Jarbom Gamlin as the new chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh, hectic lobbying has started among legislators to retain their status in the new council of ministers likely to be announced after the funeral of late chief minister Dorjee Khandu on May 11.

A city court paved the way for initiation of trial in the 2008 serial blasts case on Friday as it framed charges against 13 suspected Indian Mujahideen men for their role in the terror act which left 26 people dead and 135 injured in the city. Additional sessions judge Santosh Snehi Mann framed the charges after 11 accused, who were

Stepping up attack on the BJP, the Congress on Friday demanded Saffron leader Yashwant Sinha’s exit from the JPC for giving pre-judgment on the issue. Mr Sinha had recently held home minister P. Chidambaram “directly responsible” for the scandal as the then finance minister.

A 35-year-old man was found dead in his WagonR car in New Ashok Nagar on Friday morning with the police suspecting that the victim allegedly perished to the toxic gases released by the air conditioner of the car.

It was high drama in the Patiala House court complex since Friday morning as 43-year-old Kanimozhi, daughter of DMK chief M. Karunanidhi, appeared on Friday at 10 am, sharp.

A 20-year-old student of Manav Rachna University in Faridabad was stabbed to death in south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj area on Thursday night.
The police said the victim, Shobhit Modi, a second year student of engineering, was found stabbed outside gate number 3 of C-5, Vasant Kunj, by unidentified assailants. The security guard saw him lying near the gate but owing to darkness due to powercut following rains, he presumed that the boy was drunk.

The Congress is distancing itself from the DMK on the 2G scam, suggesting that the latter will have to fight the legal and political battle on its own. The Dravadian party, which had failed to play a role of the “king maker” like TDP leader N. Chadrababu Naidu had played during the NDA regime and the Marxists in the UPA-I, is getting marginalised at the Centre.