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1. Online homestay booking scam: Man loses ₹99,666 in cyber fraud

Online homestay booking scam: Man loses ₹99,666 in cyber fraud A 47-year-old man was allegedly cheated of ₹99,666 by cyber fraudsters while attempting to book accommodation atKumarakrupa Guest House t

Online homestay booking scam: Man loses ₹99,666 in cyber fraud

Online homestay booking scam: Man loses ₹99,666 in cyber fraud A 47-year-old man was allegedly cheated of ₹99,666 by cyber fraudsters while attempting to book accommodation atKumarakrupa Guest House through an online platform. According to the complaint, hewas searching online for accommodation when he came across a contact claiming to offer homestay bookings. He was directed to click a web link, which redirected him to WhatsApp, where he began communicating with an unidentified person. The accused, speaking in Hindi, allegedly sent multiple QR codes through WhatsApp and instructed the complainant to make payments to confirm the room booking. Believing the booking to be genuine, the complainant transferred ₹99,666 from his bank account in five transactions on June 23. After receiving the payments, the accused allegedly stopped responding and no accommodation was arranged. Realising that he had been cheated, the victim lodged a complaint with the Cyber Crime Police. Based on the complaint, the police have registered a case under Sections 66C and 66D of the Information Technology Act, 2000, and Sections 319(2) and 318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023.

2. Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed on the Emergency his father proclaimed 51 years ago

Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed on the Emergency his father proclaimed 51 years ago Few Indian judges carry a personal history as entangled with the country's constitutional fault lines as Justice Badar Du

Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed on the Emergency his father proclaimed 51 years ago

Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed on the Emergency his father proclaimed 51 years ago Few Indian judges carry a personal history as entangled with the country's constitutional fault lines as Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed. His father, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, was the President who proclaimed Emergency on the night of June 25, 1975. His first legal mentor was one of the men who helped draft that very proclamation. And for nearly 50 years, a story has circulated about a private note his father is said to have written about that night and what became of it. In this interview with 's Debayan Roy, Justice Ahmed corrects that story on the record. He also reflects on his Muslim heritage running through the Nawabs of Rampur and Mirza Ghalib, and discusses whether courts should interfere in matters of religion. Debayan Roy [DR]: Your father wrote a private note about the circumstances of signing the Emergency proclamation on the night of June 25, 1975. That note could have been the most intimate record of that period.

3. Comfort the frightened, never flatter the file

Comfort the frightened, never flatter the file There is a word I hear constantly in courts and for years I treated it as background noise: dilaasa. The thing you offer a frightened person so they can

Comfort the frightened, never flatter the file

Comfort the frightened, never flatter the file There is a word I hear constantly in courts and for years I treated it as background noise: dilaasa. The thing you offer a frightened person so they can keep standing. We are not trained to think of it as part of the job; law school teaches you the CrPC (now, the BNSS), how to read a statute, how to oppose bail. Yet, nobody teaches you what to say to a person whose savings have vanished in a fraud, or to someone who has to sit on a wooden bench and watch the person who wronged them walk out on anticipatory bail. And yet, that moment - what you say and how you say it - often decides everything. I have watched cases collapse not because the evidence was weak, but because the person carrying it was simply too exhausted and afraid to continue. A complainant turns hostile, stops returning calls and stops showing up. What actually failed was reassurance - nobody held the rope.

4. Karnataka High Court allows investigation into 21 missing dogs at DRDO campus

Karnataka High Court allows investigation into 21 missing dogs at DRDO campus The Karnataka High Court recently permitted the continuance of an investigation into the disappearance of 21 stray dogs fr

Karnataka High Court allows investigation into 21 missing dogs at DRDO campus

Karnataka High Court allows investigation into 21 missing dogs at DRDO campus The Karnataka High Court recently permitted the continuance of an investigation into the disappearance of 21 stray dogs from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) township in Bengaluru [Rakesh Kumar Sahu & Another Vs State of Karnataka]. The Court had earlier stayed the probe in so far as two accused DRDO officials were concerned by an order passed on March 25. This was after the Court raised questions about how the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) had intervened in the matter. In the latest order passed on June 23, Justice M Nagaprasanna has now directed that the investigation into the disappearance of the dogs should proceed. The Court, however, adding that the probe should be only in respect of offences that are ultimately borne out by the probe and not on the basis of offences loosely laid in the FIR. “Therefore, in the light of the submissions, contra submissions and the submissions of the SPP, I deem it appropriate to permit investigation. Not for all the offences that are loosely laid, but offences that would really come about, and that would truly come about on investigation," the Court said. The Court passed the interim order on a plea filed by two DRDO estate officers arraigned as accused in a criminal case registered in the matter in March this year. By its June 23 order, the Court granted them interim relief, directing that no coercive action be taken for now against the two DRDO estate officers.

5. SEBI rejects Anil Ambani, Reliance Infra bid to settle ₹6,526‑cr case

SEBI rejects Anil Ambani, Reliance Infra bid to settle ₹6,526‑cr case The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has rejected settlement applications filed by Reliance Infrastructure Limited an

SEBI rejects Anil Ambani, Reliance Infra bid to settle ₹6,526‑cr case

SEBI rejects Anil Ambani, Reliance Infra bid to settle ₹6,526‑cr case The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has rejected settlement applications filed by Reliance Infrastructure Limited and its promoter Anil Ambani in a ₹6,526‑crore fund diversion case, setting the stage for full adjudicatory proceedings before the market regulator. According to Reuters, SEBI declined requests under its settlement mechanism to close proceedings arising out of alleged routing of ₹6,526 crore from Reliance Infrastructure to entities linked to the controlling shareholder through contractor CLE. The regulator has characterised the transactions as “mis‑utilisation of company funds” and is pursuing a show‑cause notice issued in 2025 seeking restoration of the amount to Reliance Infrastructure with interest from 2018. SEBI’s settlement framework under SEBI Act read with the Settlement Proceedings Regulations permits compounding of proceedings without admission of guilt. However, the Board retains discretion to reject an application, particularly where market‑wide impact or serious fraud‑like features are alleged. In this particular case, SEBI has reportedly cited the seriousness of the alleged diversion and the involvement of other investigative agencies as reasons to refuse a consensual resolution at this stage. The case concerns RIL’s long‑standing financial exposure of ₹6,526 crore to engineering contractor CLE Pvt Ltd. SEBI alleges that Reliance Infrastructure diverted far larger sums to CLE over several years and that CLE, in turn, channelled substantial amounts into firms linked to the Anil Ambani–led Reliance ADA Group.

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