NEW DELHI, 24 FEB: The government has not taken any final decision on mandatory registration of FIRs and is awaiting the Supreme Court verdict in a case relating to the issue. “From time to time, views have been expressed regarding mandatory ..
Heed victim plea to wed rapist: CJ New Delhi, March 7: In a radical suggestion, the Chief Justice of India, K.G. Balakrishnan, on Sunday said judges, lawyers and social activists should give “due regard” to the wishes of a rape victim if ..
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Wednesday refused outright to believe the findings of the police department that the illegal import of 662 motorbike spare parts was an “irregularity”. Senior advocate Aspi Chinoy, who was appointed amicu ..
Shyam Benegal approaches SC to voice gay rights Gay community has finally found its lone supporter in noted film director and Rajya Sabha Member Shyam Benegal, who has approached the Supreme Court in support of Delhi High Court judgement, legal ..
Font size: Rajiv Gandhi murder Nalini Sriharan All Set to Free from Jail Chennai (ABC Live): Tamil Nadu government in process to release Rajiv Gandhi murder Nalini Sriharan from Vellore jail. Chennai (ABC Live): Tamil Nadu government ..
The Supreme Court has ruled that social and economic backwardness is one of the mitigating circumstances while commuting the death sentence of two convicts to life imprisonment. The convicts Mulla and Guddu along with others had abducted five villa ..
The Supreme Court directed the petitioner in Bofors Guns scandal case to file within two weeks the amended petition.A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan adjourned the hearing of the case till March 23.The petitioner, Ajay Kumar Agarwal ha ..
Citing omissions in developing ‘a new police system’ for an independent India, Law and Justice Minister M Veerappa Moily stressed reforms that he said ‘are still continuing.’ ‘At the dawn of independence there was no de ..
The Allahabad High Court held that no conscious and systematic efforts were being made for checking the proliferation of spurious drugs in Uttar Pradesh. The High Court directed the Central and the state governments to give a clear indication as to ..
K.G. Balakrishnan, the Chief Justice of India is in the eye of yet another storm. The Bar Association of the Punjab & Haryana High Court passed a resolution yesterday, condemning him and former Attorney General, Milon Banerjee for having given a ..