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After a woman claimed to be late Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa's daughter in a petition, the Madras High Court directed the Apollo Hospital to provide Jayalalithaa's blood samples. The directive is considered as a precursor to a DNA test to establish the petitioner's parentage. The woman sought Jayalalithaa's cremation as per the Iyengar Brahmin community rituals in the petition.

A Madhya Pradesh fast-track court on Saturday sentenced all four accused to life imprisonment for abducting and raping an IAS aspirant in Bhopal in October. The case led to five police officials getting suspended for insensitivity, negligence, and delay in registering the offence. Two doctors were also suspended for producing an erroneous medical report stating the victim had consensual sex.

Former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav on Saturday was found guilty in the fodder scam case by a special CBI court in Ranchi. The case refers to the misappropriation of around ₹90 lakh meant for buying fodder from the Deoghar Treasury between 1991 and 1994 in Bihar. In 2013, Yadav was found guilty in another fodder scam case.

A special CBI court in Ranchi on Saturday acquitted former Bihar CM Jagannath Mishra and five others in one of the six fodder scam cases. Meanwhile, 16 people, including Lalu Prasad Yadav, were found guilty in the case. This particular case is linked to the fraudulent withdrawal of around ₹90 lakh from the Deoghar Treasury during 1991-94.

The special CBI court in Ranchi will pronounce the quantum of sentence for former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad Yadav and 15 others found guilty in the fodder scam case on January 3. Yadav has been taken into custody until the sentencing. Meanwhile, the court acquitted six others accused in the case, including former Bihar Chief Minister Jagannath Mishra.

In his 1,552-page judgment in the 2G spectrum case, special CBI judge OP Saini remarked that the high-profile nature of a case cannot be used as grounds for conviction without admissible evidence. He further said that the CBI cannot absolve itself from its duty to prove its case by "piggy riding on the so-called high magnitude" of the case.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday granted bail to two men accused of cutting 200 plants of Musket, a medicinal plant, on condition that they will plant 300 saplings. Apart from the bail and surety bonds the court directed them to pay, the two men will pay the maintenance expenses of the saplings for two years.

The Supreme Court in August declared Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, which may likely impact Aadhaar's constitutional validity. In a split verdict, it banned instant Triple Talaq, terming it unconstitutional. Dera chief Ram Rahim Singh's conviction on rape charges led to riots which killed over 30 people, while Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were acquitted in daughter Aarushi's murder case.

A general court martial (GCM) has ordered that an Indian Army Brigadier be stripped of his rank and undergo three years of rigorous imprisonment on charges of having an extramarital affair with a Colonel's wife. The GCM revised the 10-year loss of seniority sentence given to him in October reportedly after an intervention from the Army headquarters in New Delhi.

The Madras High Court has directed the Greater Chennai Corporation to vacate a shop managed by actor Rajinikanth's wife Latha in Chennai's Alwarpet if she fails to pay the increased rent. This comes after Latha petitioned against the corporation's decision to increase the monthly rent from ₹3,702 to ₹21,160. Latha's lawyer claimed that the hike was introduced without any explanation.

A Motor Accident Claims Tribunal has directed a motorcycle owner and the vehicle's insurer to pay ₹3.7 lakh as compensation to a 10-year-old boy who suffered permanent disability after the motorcycle hit him in 2013. Stating that the accident had affected the victim's capacity to work and earn, the victim's lawyer had requested a compensation worth ₹21 lakh.

Delhi High Court on Tuesday stayed a special CBI court's order awarding 3-year jail term to former Jharkhand CM Madhu Koda in a coal scam case till January 22. An order imposing a fine of ₹25 lakh on Koda was also stayed by the court, granting him an interim bail till the next date of hearing.

A CBI court has deferred the order on the quantum of sentence to be awarded to RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav to Thursday. The sentencing, which was earlier scheduled for Wednesday, was deferred after the demise of advocate Vindeshwari Prasad. Yadav, who is presently lodged in a Ranchi jail, was convicted in a ₹89-lakh fodder scam case last month.

A woman accused of killing her rapist by slitting his throat in 2009 has been cleared by a sessions court in Mumbai. The court ruled that the victim's statement, circumstantial evidence, and medical reports proved that she killed in self-defence. The rape victim said she slit the man's throat after he forcibly entered her home and raped her at knife-point.

A Delhi court has declared businessman Vijay Mallya a proclaimed offender for evading summons in a Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA) violation case. The court observed that Mallya had not appeared before the court within 30 days and no representation was made on his behalf. The court had issued an open-ended non-bailable warrant against him in April last year.

A driver sacked from a West Bengal-based shipyard waited 23 years for courts to decide who his employer was, based on which he would challenge the dismissal. The dispute was whether his employer was the state or central government. The Supreme Court in December referred the case to a central tribunal as the shipyard was under the Defence Ministry.

The sentence of Lalu Prasad Yadav, convicted in the fodder scam case, will be announced on January 6 via video conferencing, his lawyer has said. Yadav has sought a minimum sentence on health grounds over diabetes and heart surgery, adding the jail did not have any super medical facilities. He has been convicted of misappropriation of funds worth ₹89 lakh.

A special CBI court today sentenced Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav along with other convicts to 3.5 years in jail in the ₹89-lakh fodder scam case. The court further imposed a fine of ₹5 lakh each on the convicts. The scam was exposed in 1996, leading to Yadav's resignation as the Bihar CM.