From granting bail to Ganesh Acharya in sexual harassment case to POCSO court rejecting appeal for bail man accused of raping; here are the major court rulings

New Delhi: Bollywood choreographer Ganesh Acharya, who is accused of harassing a dancer sexually, was granted bail by a Mumbai local court on Thursday. A man accused of three murders that rocked the state in 2015 was acquitted by the Karnataka High Court.

Mirror Now brings to you major legal news developments that were reported over the past one week.

A local court in Mumbai on Thursday granted bail to Bollywood choreographer Ganesh Acharya accused of sexually harassing a dancer. The bail was granted by magistrate's court after he appeared in the case. Read More

A sessions court has granted bail to Niraj Bishnoi, Aumkareshwar Thakur, and Neeraj Singh, accused in the Bulli Bai case. the court has directed them to furnish bonds of Rs. 50,000 and sureties. The accused will also have to visit the cyber police station once a month till the trial is concluded. The court also allowed them a provisional cash bail for eight weeks till they can arrange sureties, advocate Shivam Deshmukh said. Read More

In a major development, the Karnataka High Court has acquitted a man charged with triple murders that shook the state in 2015. A woman, along with her two children, was brutally murdered by her paramour Praveen Bhat. Read More

A Special POCSO court has rejected the bail application of accused Rehan, charged with the physical exploitation of a mentally-challenged minor girl in Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. Read More

Magistrate Nadeem Patel said, "The accused was arrested in Mumbai at around 1.30 am. In a city like Mumbai, 1.30 am is not too late. Anyone can stand on the road and therefore, it cannot be termed as hiding the identity with intent to commit an offence." Read More

The Chandigarh district court on Sunday extended the remand period of Kalyani Singh for two more days. Singh is accused of the murder of national-level shooter and advocate Sukhmanpreet Singh alias Sippy Sidhu in 2015 and was produced before the court today after the completion of four-day police remand. Read More

The son of a school principal posted in Bilaspur got married to a girl of another caste. Angered by this, the bigshots of the community issued a fatwa to expel the entire family from society. Not only this, but their relatives who participated in this wedding ceremony, were also fined 5-5 thousand rupees by the caste leaders. Read More

Denying anticipatory bail to an accused for obstructing a doctor while she was performing her official duty, the Kerala High Court said that any kind of hindrance posed to medical workers will qualify as an act of violence. Read More