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1. Thrikkakara police arrest four in ₹37-lakh cheating case

The Thrikkakara police have arrested four people, including a convict in a sexual abuse case, for allegedly cheating a man of ₹37 lakh. The complainant is a native of Thiruvananthapuram. The accused a

2. Opposition leaders to march to Supreme Court, seek CJI meeting over electoral roll revision

Opposition leaders to march to Supreme Court, seek CJI meeting over electoral roll revision

Opposition parties will march to the Supreme Court on Monday to submit a memorandum against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, escalating their agitation over electoral roll revision after mass detentions during protests in Delhi on Saturday. Leaders of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge have sought time to meet Chief Justice of India Surya Kant between 4 pm and 5 pm to hand over the memorandum on the issue they describe as "vote chori". Gandhi said opposition parties, civil society groups and young people would march to the Supreme Court to submit the memorandum on behalf of the country, demanding an end to "vote chori", Kumar's resignation, a halt to the Special Intensive Revision and a return to paper ballot. Kharge said he and Gandhi had both written to the CJI and would place the issue before him, adding that they could only request the meeting with folded hands and not demand it. In a post on X, Gandhi said the march would be by Indians "united beyond parties, gender, caste, community and state", and alleged that protesters in Delhi on Saturday were beaten by police and "BJP goons" even though they came peacefully with love rather than hatred or anger. He said the youth, all opposition parties, civil society groups and all those who believe in democracy and stand by the Constitution of India would walk with them, and alleged that Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, Ajit Doval and Mohan Bhagwat could not silence India's voice. Speaking in Bengaluru, Kharge said chaos was being created in the country by the home minister and the prime minister and that an undeclared emergency was imposed everywhere, and said the heavy security deployment and detentions during Saturday's protests showed the government's fear of the youth agitation. He claimed roads were blocked, communication channels disrupted, access to the airport restricted and mobile networks shut down, and said nearly 32,000 police personnel and 7,500 CRPF personnel were deployed. He said the opposition would continue its fight to protect democracy and the constitutional rights of the people. AICC general secretary K C Venugopal alleged that reporters from agencies, Malayalam journalists, independent bloggers and YouTubers, especially women, were detained and assaulted, called it completely unforgivable, and alleged that the Delhi Police had turned the city into a torture chamber where innocent citizens exercising their fundamental rights were chased, thrashed and detained while vigilante groups aligned with the ruling regime were given a free hand to assault protesters under full police protection.

3. Mainpuri: FIR against three, including girlfriend, for abetment of suicide after youth shoots himself

Mainpuri: FIR against three, including girlfriend, for abetment of suicide after youth shoots himself

A case of abetment of suicide has been registered against three people, including the girlfriend of a 35-year-old man who shot himself dead in Bewar town of Mainpuri district in Uttar Pradesh. The deceased, Mohammad Azam alias Shahanshah, an unmarried resident of Mohalla Uttari Kazi Tola in the town, shot himself with a country-made pistol (tammancha) at his home around 12 pm on 8 October. According to his family, he had written his girlfriend's name in mehndi on the fingers of his hand a day before ending his life, and showed the mehndi to relatives before he died. His maternal uncle and councillor Shamsad said Shahanshah had worked in bank recovery in Jaipur before the lockdown and was in a relationship with Parveena. Parveena married a man from Bilhaur on 29 January 2024, and a day before her marriage the two had consumed poison in an attempt to end their lives but survived. Parveena had deposited Rs 50,000 in Shahanshah's account and had asked for the money back three days before his death; the family says he was under severe stress because of the dispute over the money and threats, including threats from his girlfriend's father-in-law. On Thursday, Shahanshah went to Bilhaur to meet his mother and then shot himself. On Saturday, the deceased's brother Aman Raza lodged the case against Parveena alias Gor, her brother Sohel and her uncle Mohammad Umar for abetment of suicide. Bewar Inspector Anil Kumar Singh said the accused would be arrested soon.

4. Madras High Court acquits convict of POCSO charge, confirms murder conviction with life sentence

Madras High Court acquits convict of POCSO charge, confirms murder conviction with life sentence

A Division Bench of the Madras High Court, comprising Justices Anita Sumanth and Sunder Mohan, partly allowed an appeal filed by Kakka alias Karunas in the 2024 Puducherry POCSO Act case. The Bench acquitted him of the charge of aggravated sexual assault under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, and confirmed his conviction only for the murder of a nine-year-old girl, modifying the death sentence to life imprisonment. The second accused, Harikrishnan alias Vivekanandan, had died by suicide in prison on September 16, 2024, before the commencement of trial, and the charges against him stood abated. A special court for POCSO Act cases had, on April 30, 2026, convicted the appellant and sentenced him to death for the offence under Section 6 of the POCSO Act and Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code. The High Court dealt with the appeal along with a reference made by the trial court for confirmation of the death sentences. The judges appointed senior counsel N.R. Elango, assisted by A. Nagarajan and B. Arvind Srevatsa, to argue for the appellant, and also appointed legal aid counsel S. Sridevi, since the convict said he did not have the wherewithal to engage a lawyer. Justice Mohan, who authored the verdict, noted that the prosecution case was based entirely on circumstantial evidence because there was no eye-witness, and that the prosecution had to prove a continuous chain of circumstances to establish guilt. According to the prosecution, the two accused had subjected the girl child, their neighbour, to aggravated sexual assault at the residence of the second accused before smothering her to death and dumping her body in a canal behind the place of occurrence on March 2, 2024. The body was recovered from the canal on March 5, 2024, and the Puducherry Director General of Police appointed a woman police officer in the rank of Superintendent of Police on March 6, 2024, to investigate the case in view of the gravity of the offence. The Division Bench held that the prosecution had, through medical evidence, conclusively established that the victim child was subjected to aggravated sexual assault and was done to death. It did not go into the case against the second accused because he had died on September 16, 2024 and the charges against him had abated before trial. As regards the appellant, the judges said neither his semen nor blood stain was found in any of the objects recovered from the scene of crime. They refused to accept the forensic analyst's opinion of a 'close match' between his touch/trace DNA reportedly lifted from the scene of crime and his blood sample. They highlighted that the analyst had not forwarded to the trial court an allele comparison chart between the touch/trace DNA of the appellant supposedly recovered from a dhoti belonging to the second accused and the appellant's blood sample. When asked for the reason, the analyst said the chart did not satisfy the minimum cutoff/threshold value. During his cross-examination in the High Court as part of the hearing on the reference and appeal, he said there were no gradations such as close or very close matches while comparing alleles and that forensic analysts were required to report only match, no match or no opinion. The Bench also recorded that it was only in the High Court that it was first revealed that what was compared with the convict's blood sample was only touch/trace DNA and not semen or blood stain.

5. Supreme Court to hold special Sunday sitting on pleas against detention of opposition leaders

Supreme Court to hold special Sunday sitting on pleas against detention of opposition leaders

Trinamool Congress MP and Senior Advocate Menaka Guruswamy has approached the Supreme Court against Delhi Police action targeting opposition party leaders, including former Chief Ministers, who were protesting in Delhi on Saturday against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. A bench of Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana will hold a special sitting on Sunday, October 11, to hear the matter. Guruswamy has challenged the preventive detention of opposition leaders, including four former Chief Ministers, during protests at Jantar Mantar by Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) activists and various other political parties. According to Guruswamy, such preventive detentions cannot be used to suppress the fundamental right to peaceful protest, particularly against leaders who have previously governed States. She has also questioned the police action of picking up protesters from the streets and opposition leaders from their residences. The case will be heard along with a separate contempt of court petition alleging that Delhi Metro stations remained closed despite the Court's October 9 order against a complete shutdown of public transport ahead of the protests. That contempt petition has been filed by advocate Shailendra Mani Tripathi against Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan, Delhi Police Commissioner Anurag Kumar and Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) Chairperson D Thara, alleging non-compliance with Supreme Court orders.

1. Rajnikant Dudhabhai Parmar vs. The State of Gujarat and Ors. (05.10.2026 - SC)(MANU/SC/1144/2026)

The Supreme Court of India addressed the appeal by Rajnikant Dudhabhai Parmar against the State of Gujarat, challenging the High Court's decision to quash his discharge in a criminal case involving ar

2. Ramkrushna Prahllad Dongardive vs. The State of Maharashtra (08.10.2026 - SC)(MANU/SC/1143/2026)

The Supreme Court of India addressed the reversal of Ramkrushna Prahllad Dongardive's acquittal by the Bombay High Court for the offence under Section 409 of the Indian Penal Code, concerning alleged

3. Federation of Medical and Sales Representatives Association of India and Ors. vs. Union of India (UOI) and Ors. (08.10.2026 - SC)(MANU/SC/1142/2026)

The Supreme Court of India addressed the issue of unethical marketing practices by pharmaceutical companies, which allegedly influence medical prescriptions and impact public health. The petitioners,

4. Shubham Equipment Private Limited and Ors. vs. Rothwell Water Company Limited and Ors. (08.10.2026 - SC)(MANU/SC/1141/2026)

The Supreme Court of India addressed the arbitration petitions filed by Shubham Equipment Private Limited (SEPL) and others against Rothwell Water Company Limited (RWCL) and others, concerning dispute

5. Modern Asset vs. KNK Construction Private Limited (08.10.2026 - SC)(MANU/SC/1140/2026)

The Supreme Court of India addressed whether an Operational Creditor (Modern Asset) who suffered a significant reduction in claims during the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) can be purs

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