Topic: Court

A Canadian court has ruled that the “thumbs-up” emoji is just as valid as a signature, arguing that courts need to adapt to the “new reality” of how people communicate. Judge TJ Keene of the King's Bench for Saskatchewan ordered a farmer to pay $61,442 for an unfulfilled contract.

A magistrate court in Maharashtra's Malegaon convicted a Muslim man in a road accident brawl case and ordered him to offer namaz five times a day and plant two trees as conditions for his release on admonition, instead of undergoing imprisonment, Bar and Bench reported.

The Allahabad High Court on Thursday directed a second autopsy of the body of Muslim youth Altaf -who was died during police custody in Uttar Pradesh's Kasganj- by a team of doctors from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi.

"You don't like non-veg food, it is your lookout. How can you decide what people should eat outside? How can you stop people from eating what they want?", asks Gujarat High Court to Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation while hearing a plea filed by street vendors who have been prohibited from selling non-vegetarian food on the streets of Ahmedabad.

A Delhi court on Monday convicted a man Dinesh Yadav for being part of a Hindu mob that set a 73-year-old Muslim woman's house on fire during the anti-Muslim pogrom in the national capital in February 2020.

Allahabad HC judge, Shekhar Kumar Yadhav in a judgment said that 'scientists believe cow is the only animal that inhales and exhales oxygen.' The scientific world disagrees and is worried about the frequent endorsement of unscientific practices from the power centers.