The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has decreed that Mahendra Sharma died of starvation and directed the state government to pay a compensation of Rs 2 lakh to his wife within four weeks. SHRC has taken strong exception to what it described as a ..
The CBI on Thursday informed the Bombay high court that its earlier inquiries and reports against Pune-based adoption agency Preet Mandir were "incomplete'' and that it would submit a report after another probe. The court is hearing the matter f ..
The Union Cabinet may articulate today its stand on homosexual relations decriminalised by a Delhi High Court order now challenged before India’s Supreme Court.The government was asked to present its stand after the Supreme Court was petitioned ..
Justice M L Tahliyani, presiding over the 26/11 trial court, directed the Rampur Magistrate court, which had initially remanded accused Fahim Ansari, to hand over the articles seized from him. Justice Tahliyani ordered the Magistrate court to entrust ..
Law should catch up with police personnel who had indulged in "individual acts of violence," M Ramasubramani who was the joint commissioner of police here when violence rocked the Madras high court on February 19 has said in his reply to court. Ramas ..
Judge M L Tahaliyani, presiding over the 26/11 attack trial, reprimanded the investigating officer in the Vile Parle taxi blast case for giving wrong answer to a question raised by defence advocate Abbas Kazmi. When Mr Kazmi asked investigating offic ..
The Supreme Court has held that courts can monitor the investigation of a criminal case in appropriate cases where they felt free and fair investigation was not being conducted. A bench comprising Justices Altamas Kabir and Cyriac Joseph in their jud ..
A co-accused cannot oppose the bail of another co-accused, Delhi High Court has said. "The opposition to the bail by a co-accused who is in the capacity of an accomplice and hence himself is a discredited man cannot be permitted,'' the HC said while ..
Amid reports of vaginal swabs of Noida murder victim Aarushi Talwar being substituted with those of an unidentified woman, a senior former police officer has said even a lower-level employee having the keys to the storage room could "easily manipulat ..
The DNA of samples collected from the articles seized from Kuber boat and blood stains of four terrorist, who had held the Taj Mahal Hotel under seige for more than 60 hours, matched with each other, Assistant Chemical Analysier Shrikant Lade told th ..