In a communication to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt has conveyed his sense of "great betrayal" over the manner in which his son, Rahul, has been handled by those investigating the David Headley-Tahawwur Rana episode. ..
Although there are claims made by the authorities that there was an overall improvement in the law and order situation in the capital city, there are reports of a significant number of criminal cases. In the last week alone, metropolitan police range ..
Medical Negligence Introduction This Chapter aims to discuss the following: What is meant by medical negligence? What are the available remedies for victims of medical negligence? What have been the recent trends of the judiciary in the matte ..
Penal provisions to combat road accidents can be found in following three enactments:(i) Indian Penal Code, 1860 (ii) Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (iii) National Highways Act, 1956 (i) Indian Penal Code, 1860 Sections 279, 304A, 336, ..
With the Supreme Court of Bangladesh upholding the death sentence on the assassins of founder President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, justice has finally been delivered after a long legal battle that dragged on for 13 years. Thirty-four years after Mujib wa ..
World War II was almost over. Still, Hitler was unrelenting in his insane determination to exterminate Jews. A batch of around 20,000 Jews were in a concentration camp. Orders had come from Berlin to go ahead with their execution. However, the head o ..
INDIA'S prison law and policy needs total review. For example, India's Prison's Act 1894 permits " whipping" for prison indiscipline.This remains on India's statute book though it's been abolished in Andhra, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya Pr ..
AT THE time of the national and state assembly elections, earlier this year, an NGO provided considerable detail to show that our legislative assemblies and parliament had come to be populated by a disproportionately large number of millionaires. The ..
IN what could only be called a farce and total contempt for the justice system in India, Manu Sharma went back to Tihar Jail on Tuesday with the same nonchalance with which he had stepped outside it while going on parole. While this may bring tempora ..
LETTER FROM U.K. 1, MISTAKE BY MINISTERS. One was a doctor, the man to trust, who wished to set fire to the airport at Glasgow and KILL everyone around. One was a teacher, a man trusted by society to educate children, who blew up the tube ..