The police got information that a noted director and a supporting actress are too involved in the hawala links of actor Vijaya Kumar.

The next time your friend or spouse gets drunk and insists on taking the wheel, you may want to think twice before accompanying him. In an unprecedented case last week, the Mumbai traffic police booked a co-passenger for abutment after the driver of a Maruti Swift was caught drunk at Mulund.

Thiruvananthapuram Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate court has issued an arrest warrant against former Chief Minister E K Nayanar quite late - five years after his death - with the police failing to inform the magistrate about the Marxist leader's demise.

On couple's plea, coming to the rescue of a newly married couple, the Delhi High Court Monday stayed criminal proceeding against them on the charge of committing an obscene act at a Metro station and pulled up the police for its role.

A magistrate court today extended the police custody of Satyam's tainted founder Ramalinga Raju and its former CFO Vadlamani Srinivas by a day, to allow the investigators to confront them with documents seized during raids.

The Kerala High Court yesterday directed the State government to take a final decision on the Vigilance inquiry report into the allegation of misuse of funds by the former office-bearers of the Federation of Indian Floriculturists, including the former PWD Minister, P J Joseph, in three months. Justice Kurian Joseph issued the direction on a petition filed by Attukal Surendran.

Delhi High Court Wednesday pulled up the government for using inadequate evidence to oppose decriminalisation of gay sex in private among consenting adults. Additional Solicitor General P.P. Malhotra, while arguing before a division bench headed by Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice S. Muralidhar, cited a verse of the Bible condemning gay sex.

The bride said she was a virgin. When her new husband discovered that was a lie, he went to court to annul the marriage — and a French judge agreed. The ruling ending the Muslim couple's union has stunned France and raised concerns the country's much-cherished secular values are losing ground to cultural traditions from its fast-growing immigrant communities.

Seventy men in Australia have been arrested in a global crackdown on Internet child pornography and more will be detained, police said Thursday. The Interpol-led probe involving 170 countries was launched after a hacker posted 99 child porn images on a European website, which attracted 12 million hits in just 76 hours.

A man allegedly raped his daughter when he was in an inebriated state, police said today. A resident of Vaishali Nagar locality here was arrested yesterday following a complaint by his daughter who accused him of raping her.

The accused, hailing from Maharashtra, is working in an iron factory and had recently brought his daughter here from his native state, police said.