Legal

The Delhi High Court issued notice to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on a plea moved by Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain, on September 26. The notice was in regard to the plea of Jain, against the transfer of proceedings in the money laundering case against him to a new judge. Seeking the probe agency`s reply in the matter, Justice Yogesh Khanna listed the further hearing for September 28.

Actor Jacqueline Fernandez who has been on the limelight for having an affair with jailed conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, has been granted interim bail in the Rs 200 crore money laundering case. Chandrashekhar on the other hand, has been sent to jail for allegedly extorting money and duping several people. Meanwhile, actress Nora Fatehi and Pinky Irani are also being questioned by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the aforementioned case.

In a relief to the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena sack, the Bombay High Court allowed a Dussehra rally at Shivaji Park, Mumbai, Maharashtra. On September 23, the HC also noted that the Mumbai civic abused power in the case and said, "We are satisfied that in this case the BMC has abused the power by rejecting the application citing another application." Moreover, the court also rejected Eknath Shinde's intervention plea.

Supreme Court has issued notice to Central Government regarding fraudulent religious conversion. On September 23, the Apex Court bench of justices MR Shah and Krishna Murari issued orders, asking the GoI to take the necessary steps and control the religious conversion fraud, after reviewing a plea seeking direction to the Centre and State governments. The top court asked the parties to file a reply by November 14 and adjourned the matter.

A Delhi court granted anticipatory bail to bodybuilder and social media influencer Bobby Kataria on September 22. Bobby Kataria has been accused for allegedly smoking in a SpiceJet flight from Dubai to Delhi. And FIR was filed under section 3(1)(c) of Suppression of Unlawful act against the safety of Civil Aviation Act, 1982. Notably, a Delhi court had issued a non-bailable warrant against Kataria on September 7, in the aforementioned May… read-more