A city court dismissed the bail plea of a 50-year-old Allahabad man, allegedly involved in an international racket of cheats who make calls to people claiming to be from Kaun Banega Crorepati and demand money in exchange of huge amounts for winners.

An HIV positive man, who repeatedly raped his 14-year-old stepdaughter after the death of his wife, was convicted by a city court for committing rape, causing miscarriage and attempt to murder. The wife of the convict Sabhajeet Maurya had died of HIV.

Former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda was on Saturday further remanded to three-day police custody by a city court after the prosecution complained about his evasive and uncooperative response to queries aimed at recovering the missing mobile phones and hard disk of his computer.

The National Investigat-ion Agency (NIA) on Wednesday concluded arguments regarding the involvement of Wasim Akram Malik in the Delhi high court blast case, in which 17 people were killed and over 90 injured.

A 24-year-old youth was awarded life imprisonment by the city court on Tuesday, after the man was held guilty for raping, biting and urinating into his neighbour’s four-year-old daughter’s private parts after the man had invited the girl to his residence on the pretext of giving roti-puri.

A city court has convicted a youth who kidnapped and later married a 15-year-old girl, for raping the minor and sentenced him to seven years in jail, observing that “on first occasion, he forcibly established physical relations with her.”

A tout and two travels agents, accused to be involved in a racket of railway ticket reservation by issuing confirmed tickets on forged names and addresses to customers, were on Wednesday sent to 14 days judicial custody by a city court.

A youth who murdered a 72-year-old professor a day before his birthday in an attempt to robbery was awarded life imprisonment by a sessions judge on Tuesday.

A city court has granted bail to three accused in the 2011 Delhi University’s Medical Entrance Test rigging case after the Delhi police failed to file a chargesheet since their arrest on April 2.

With the first cut-off list out, the Delhi University witnessed overwhelming rush of students, some in a cheerful mood for being selected within the first round, while others reluctantly choose to wait for the second cut-off list.