The high court on Wednesday granted bail to a lifer who had been in jail for the past 20 years for allegedly shooting at a jewellery trader, snatching his belongings and killing his driver in 1999.The...

The department of prosecution, under state home department, is working out a plan to detect impostors who stand as surety for the accused amid reports of hardcore criminals managing bail through fake ...

A Delhi Court on Thursday dismissed the plea of Christian Michel, the alleged middleman arrested in the AgustaWestland chopper scam, who had sought seven-day interim bail to celebrate Easter with fami...

Gauhati High Court on Thursday directed NDFB (R) supremo Ranjan Daimari to surrender as his interim bail of four weeks had expired.Hours after the high court directive, Daimari reached the central jai...

A high court division bench, headed by the chief justice, on Friday granted bail to a murder accused who has spent 15 years in jail.The bench stated it had “bestowed anxious consideration” to his ...

A railway court here on Wednesday awarded six months’ simple imprisonment to former Nirsa MLA Arup Chatterjee and nine others and imposed a fine of Rs 2,000 on each of them for a railway track block...

The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday granted anticipatory bail to former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar in the multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam case, saying this is not an appropriate case f...

When Sandhya, 26, and Shilpa, 23, scaled the walls of a sub-jail in Thiruvananthapuram on June 25, the television channels were quick to play up their daylight escape as the first jailbreak by women i...

A division bench of Calcutta High Court on Wednesday held that the state and city police should create a separate server to maintain crime records, particularly those of political activists.The court ...

BJP leader Mukul Roy has been asked by Delhi High Court on Thursday to “cooperate with Calcutta police” in a cash-recovery probe. The high court had earlier granted Roy protection from “coercive...