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Chandigarh: Court denies bail to former CREST chief in IDFC First Bank case

Chandigarh, Oct. 7 -- A local CBI court on Tuesday dismissed the regular bail plea of former Chandigarh Renewable Energy and Science & Technology Promotion Society (CREST) CEO and Indian Forest Servic... Read More


rRs.r5-cr bribery charges: Majithia, Khaira move court against interim injunction

Chandigarh, Oct. 7 -- Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia and Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira have approached the district court seeking to vacate a temporary order restraining them in ... Read More


Chandigarh: Man gets 10-year jail for possessing drugs

Chandigarh, Oct. 6 -- A special court sentenced a 29-year old man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of 1 lakh for possessing 5 kg of charas, a commercial quantity under the Narco... Read More


Chandigarh: Realtor Wadhwa's 'escape bid', 2 cops among 5 named in challan

Chandigarh, Oct. 4 -- UT police have filed a chargesheet against five people, including two police personnel in connection with undertrial businessman Vikram Wadhwa being taken to a hotel instead of b... Read More


Chandigarh: CBI court rejects Dheeraj Dutt's discharge plea in 2017 bribery case

Chandigarh, Oct. 2 -- The special CBI court on Thursday dismissed a discharge application filed by Dheeraj Dutt, husband of former Chandigarh sub-divisional megistrate (SDM) Shilpi Pattar, in a 2017 b... Read More


Chandigarh: Mother's cross-examination deferred in Sippy Sidhu murder case

Chandigarh, Oct. 1 -- The special CBI court on Wednesday deferred the cross-examination of prosecution witness Deepinder Kaur in the 2015 murder case of lawyer and shooter Sippy Sidhu, with the defenc... Read More


Kotkhai custodial death case: Witness constable seeks protection, cites harassment

Chandigarh, Oct. 1 -- A constable, who was a key prosecution witness in the 2017 Kotkhai custodial death case, has sought witness protection, a stay on his suspension and transfer of all inquiries con... Read More


UT rent disputes stretch for years, 206 cases pending

Chandigarh, Sept. 25 -- The district court has 206 Rent Control and Additional Rent Control cases pending till September, with the year-on-year data showing a continuing workload of rent disputes even... Read More


Chandigarh: Charges of culpable homicide framed against Porsche driver

Chandigarh, Sept. 23 -- Over a year after a 23-year-old Activa rider was run over by a rashly driven Porsche in Sector 4, a local court on Tuesday framed charges of culpable homicide not amounting to ... Read More


Money laundering case: ED gets 7-day custody of DIG Bhullar's aide

Chandigarh, Sept. 19 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday secured seven-day custody of "middleman" Krishanu Sharda, an alleged aide of suspended Punjab Police deputy inspector general (DIG) H... Read More