Kolkata, Aug. 31 -- Nearly 28 years after a young woman was brutally killed on the night of 'Jamai Shasti', the Calcutta High Court has upheld the life sentence of her husband, ruling that the chain o... Read More
Kolkata, Aug. 29 -- The Calcutta High Court has set aside the conviction of a Purulia man sentenced to life imprisonment for the alleged murder of his parents in 2012, holding that the prosecution had... Read More
Kolkata, Aug. 28 -- The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of Md. Jahangir Sahaji for murdering his wife and minor son but commuted the death sentence awarded to him by a Barasat c... Read More
Kolkata, Aug. 27 -- The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Wednesday announced a standard operating procedure (SOP) for rooftop restaurants, allowing those that were shut down to reopen before Dur... Read More
Kolkata, Aug. 27 -- The Calcutta High Court has held that the provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) cannot be stretched to cover incidents of localised violence unless such act... Read More
Kolkata, Aug. 26 -- The Calcutta High Court has set aside the Union government's preventive detention order against a woman accused in multiple narcotics cases, stressing that such detention cannot be... Read More
Kolkata, Aug. 25 -- The Calcutta High Court has quashed a criminal case lodged by a woman against her husband and in-laws, emphasising that mere physical assault without any accompanying unlawful dema... Read More
Kolkata, Aug. 24 -- The Calcutta High Court has acquitted one Tushar Das, previously sentenced to five years of rigorous imprisonment for causing the death of Binoy Pramanick in 2008, following a viol... Read More
Kolkata, Aug. 24 -- The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS) has launched a two-year postgraduate programme, a first-of-its-kind, in Criminology and Criminal Justice Science,... Read More
Kolkata, Aug. 22 -- Observing that serious illness justifies bail, the Calcutta High Court has granted interim bail to a former chairman of UCO Bank, Subodh Kumar Goel, arrested by the Enforcement Dir... Read More