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On Monday, Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Manisha Khurana Kakkar of the Saket Court Complex had granted the Delhi Police liberty to approach a higher court for pursuing the remedy requested in their application for restraining news channels from airing or publishing any content related to the FIR registered in the case. While Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar passed the order on Delhi Police's plea on Wednesday, he said restraining would include the audio of the narco test and CCTV footage.

During the hearing, a bench of Justices K.M. Joseph and B.V. Nagarathna questioned the government on granting frequent paroles to the 11 convicts during the period of their imprisonment and pointed that Gujarat government could have considered the gravity of the offence. It observed that a pregnant woman was gang-raped and several people were killed and the case cannot be compared with a standard Section 302 (murder) cases.

The bench -- also comprising Justices S.K. Kaul, S.R. Bhat, Hima Kohli, and P.S. Narasimha -- said it will first hear petitioners' and the nature and tenability of the preliminary objection will depend upon the canvas which the petitioners would open up. The Chief Justice told Mehta: "I am sorry Mr. Solicitor, we are in charge. You cannot dictate how we will conduct the proceedings."

The mining team learnt that sand mafia were overloading the trucks near the Parev village and a team of the Mines Department and Bihta police went there for the inspection. However, the sand mafias and truck drivers attacked the team. Seeing the assailants, outnumbered them, the police and Mines Department.

The former Sadr-i-Riyasat of Jammu and Kashmir, cabinet minister, ambassador, MP and well-regarded scholar, rewinding back to the days when Project Tiger was born, narrated the sequence of events that led to its birth. In a conversation with IANS, Singh said: "I was in Mrs Gandhi's Cabinet in 1969. One day, she asked me to take over the Indian Board of Wildlife, the chairman of which was the Maharaja of Mysore (Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar), a fine man but not very mobile."

His arrest came days after the police arrested the fugitive radical preacher's mentor Papalpreet Singh in Amritsar. "Joga Singh was in direct contact with Amritpal Singh. He arranged shelter and vehicles for Amritpal Singh. He arranged for him to stay in Pilibhit and then return to Punjab," Bhargav told the media in Amritsar.

On March 13, while referring the matter to a constitution bench, the top court had noted that it is a very seminal issue . A bench headed by the CJI and comprising justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, S. Ravindra Bhat, Hima Kohli, and P.S. Narasimha will hear the batch of petitions on April 18. On March 13, a bench headed by CJI Chandrachud had said, "It is a very seminal issue", while scheduling the matter for consideration before a five-judge bench.

Amrik Bajwa, 68, of Bowyer Drive, Slough, was sentenced to 18 weeks' imprisonment after pleading guilty to one count of sending offensive/indecent/obscene/menacing message/matter via public communication network, the Thames Valley Police said.On July 19, 2022, Bajwa posted a video to TikTok "that was offensive to the Sikh community". He was arrested on July 22, 2022, and charged via postal requisition on March 2, 2023, a police statement read.

Senior advocate Siddhartha Dave, representing Kashyap, submitted before a bench headed by justices Krishna Murari and Sanjay Karol that his client is facing five prosecutions in two states. Dave, citing journalist Arnab Goswami's case, said one offense cannot give rise to multiple cases and requested the court to direct that the FIR in Bihar, should become the lead FIR.

A bench of Justices V Ramasubramanian and Pankaj Mithal said: "The charges which revolve around gross negligence and callousness on the part of the respondent in not preparing/dictating judgments, but providing a fait accompli, is completely unacceptable and unbecoming of a judicial officer."