The Supreme Court has held that pre-marital sex is not a statutory offence and criminal law cannot punish individuals merely for expressing "unpopular views" justifying such acts as it would violate freedom of speech and expression."W ..
Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving 26/11 gunman, was on Monday convicted by a special court in Mumbai for the audacious Mumbai attacks that had left 166 people dead. Over 17 months after he and nine other perpetrators unlea ..
Consensual sex sans adultery no offence Morality And Criminality Are Non-Co-Extensive: Apex Court New Delhi: Consensual heterosexual relation between adults, including pre-marital sex, is no offence except in cases where the partners are liabl ..
The Quattrocchi component of the Bofors pay-off case in Supreme Court was given a burial on Tuesday with the court asking an advocate to withdraw his PIL questioning defreezing of the Italian businessman's bank account in London. The PIL filed ..
GUJARAT RIOTS: HC ASKS NANAVATI COMMISSION TO CLARIFY ON SUMMONING MODI NEW DELHI: The Gujarat High Court on Monday asked the Nanavati Commission, which is probing the post-Godhra riot cases, to clarify by April 1 whether it would summon chief ..
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi failed to show up before the Supreme Court appointed SIT which had summoned him on Sunday for questioning in connection with a 2002 riots case. The SIT has also not received any communication from the state ..
A designated court in Chandigarh on Saturday adjourned the hearing in the Cash-at-Judge's door scam till 26th March after conclusion of arguments by the prime accused arguing for himself in the case and the counsel for the petitioner. CBI Sp ..
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Wednesday ruled that a divorced Muslim woman's right to claim maintenance under Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code did not stand "extinguished" if payment under Section 3 of the Musl ..
Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley, accused of plotting the 26/11 Mumbai attacks at the behest of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and conspiring to target a Danish newspaper, on Thursday pleaded guilty to all terror charges before a US court in Chicago. ..
The trail of pakistani gunman ajmal kasab and indians faheem ansari and sabauddin ahmed in the 26/11 terror attack case is likely to end this week with the prosecution and defence lawyers informing the court today that they may wind up final argumen ..