Bihar Court

The Patna High Court has, vide an administrative order, restrained from judicial work a lower court judge in Bihar who has been in the headlines because of piquant orders.

A court in Bihar's Madhubani district has directed a man accused of molesting a woman to wash and iron the clothes of all female residents of his village, free of cost, by way of repentance.

A petition was filed before a court in Bihar's Muzaffarpur on Monday against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over his controversial "Abba Jaan" remark he made in one of his speeches.

The Supreme Court has ruled that a person belonging to a reserved category is entitled to claim the benefit of reservation in either of the successor States of Bihar or Jharkhand, but cannot claim the benefit of the quota simultaneously in both the s

Nine parties including the BJP and Congress were held guilty of contempt and eight fined today for not widely publicising the criminal records of their 2020 Bihar candidates. The parties "refuse to wake up from deep slumber", the Supreme Court said.

A court in Bihar's Rohtas district gave death sentence to a man held guilty of rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl.

After the Patna High Court expressed its displeasure, the Bihar Health Department has set up a three-tier committee to verify and update the recording and reporting of coronavirus--related deaths during the second wave of infections in the state.

The Patna High Court on Saturday once again pulled up Bihar's Nitish Kumar government for what it called an "opaque system" of maintaining birth and death records.

The Patna High Court on Friday observed that the Bihar government's reluctance to put the state's COVID-19 death count in the public domain is uncalled for.

A court in Bihar's Muzaffarpur area on Friday ordered that an FIR be lodged against 18 police personnel who had looted cash and jewellery, valued at more than Rs 50 lakh, from the house of a retired serviceman earlier this year.

Death sentence was awarded to 10 people by a court in Bihar's Arrah on Monday in a three years old murder case.

Bihar's massive revision in its Covid deaths figure to over 9,000 has become controversial with the 72 per cent jump raising more questions. Because of Bihar's update, India reported 6,148 new deaths today, the highest single-day spike.

Days after floating corpses washed up on the banks of the Ganga at Bihar's Buxar, the Patna High Court has slammed glaring discrepancies in the number of dead reported by different official agencies.

A PIL filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday sought direction for setting up a Special Investigating Agency to supervise the probe into around 100 corpses found floating in the river Ganga in Bihar's Buxar and UP's Unnao and Ghazipur districts.

Bihar will go into a lockdown till May 15, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said today amid the incessant rise of COVID-19 cases. The decision came hours after the Patna High Court ordered the government to declare a lockdown, warning that it may step in.

The Patna High Court has, vide an administrative order, restrained from judicial work a lower court judge in Bihar who has been in the headlines because of piquant orders.

A court in Bihar's Madhubani district has directed a man accused of molesting a woman to wash and iron the clothes of all female residents of his village, free of cost, by way of repentance.

A petition was filed before a court in Bihar's Muzaffarpur on Monday against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over his controversial "Abba Jaan" remark he made in one of his speeches.

The Supreme Court has ruled that a person belonging to a reserved category is entitled to claim the benefit of reservation in either of the successor States of Bihar or Jharkhand, but cannot claim the benefit of the quota simultaneously in both the s

Nine parties including the BJP and Congress were held guilty of contempt and eight fined today for not widely publicising the criminal records of their 2020 Bihar candidates. The parties "refuse to wake up from deep slumber", the Supreme Court said.

A court in Bihar's Rohtas district gave death sentence to a man held guilty of rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl.

After the Patna High Court expressed its displeasure, the Bihar Health Department has set up a three-tier committee to verify and update the recording and reporting of coronavirus--related deaths during the second wave of infections in the state.

The Patna High Court on Saturday once again pulled up Bihar's Nitish Kumar government for what it called an "opaque system" of maintaining birth and death records.

The Patna High Court on Friday observed that the Bihar government's reluctance to put the state's COVID-19 death count in the public domain is uncalled for.

A court in Bihar's Muzaffarpur area on Friday ordered that an FIR be lodged against 18 police personnel who had looted cash and jewellery, valued at more than Rs 50 lakh, from the house of a retired serviceman earlier this year.

Death sentence was awarded to 10 people by a court in Bihar's Arrah on Monday in a three years old murder case.

Bihar's massive revision in its Covid deaths figure to over 9,000 has become controversial with the 72 per cent jump raising more questions. Because of Bihar's update, India reported 6,148 new deaths today, the highest single-day spike.

Days after floating corpses washed up on the banks of the Ganga at Bihar's Buxar, the Patna High Court has slammed glaring discrepancies in the number of dead reported by different official agencies.

A PIL filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday sought direction for setting up a Special Investigating Agency to supervise the probe into around 100 corpses found floating in the river Ganga in Bihar's Buxar and UP's Unnao and Ghazipur districts.

Bihar will go into a lockdown till May 15, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said today amid the incessant rise of COVID-19 cases. The decision came hours after the Patna High Court ordered the government to declare a lockdown, warning that it may step in.