After examining the complaint, supporting affidavit, and the submission made by the Palarivattom Station House Officer, the court observed that no cognisable offence was presently made out to warrant forwarding the complaint to the SHO
The case pertains to alleged corruption to the tune of ₹27.9 crore
The Audit department had reported to the court that the Board had failed to formulate a ‘flawless system’, resulting in accounting difficulties
A British funeral director faced prison on Monday over a scandal that saw bodies left “stored on racks” and uncremated while relatives were handed other people’s ashes, sparking calls for better regulation of the industry. An ex-employee described Robert Bush’s funeral parlour as a “horror scene”, prosecutor Chris Paxton said at the start of a five-day sentencing hearing. Police who searched his premises after a tip-off found 31 bodies in a cold storage area that should have been cremated months...
Minutes after a Berlin court sentenced a Chinese man to five years in prison for aiding and abetting aggravated rape and sexual coercion, two women who had sat through the trial hugged each other and cried. But the case left one of those women, named Kristina, balancing mixed emotions as she struggled to reconcile her desire to see the perpetrators punished and questions about what justice really meant in a case of this nature. The 32-year-old, who was studying medicine, was jailed for five...
Appeal judges' decision to side with Georgetown's Badar Khan Suri against Trump sets up Supreme Court intervention.
The son of a former mainland Chinese official has been jailed for six years and nine months for using deceptive means to secure residency in Hong Kong and laundering more than HK$64 million, including a bribe his father allegedly sought a decade ago. The District Court on Thursday sentenced Xiao Rui, 37, on four counts of money laundering and one of using false instruments for offences he committed between 2013 and 2023. Deputy Judge Bernard Chung Wai-keung said Xiao had undermined the...
The woman, who had wanted to end her pregnancy at 36 weeks, gave birth to a baby who doctors later killed.