Chennai: Do we need a new, single and comprehensive law to cover all facets of child abuse? Yes and No, say jurists and child right activists who are divided on this issue. Yes, because child abuse is a new form of offence very different from regular ..
Chennai: In a new development to the human trafficking case filed against P R Sivakumar, managing director (overseas), Saravana Bhavan hotel, the airport police on Tuesday arrested him for sending one of his employees, Ragu Chandran, to the US in 200 ..
Chennai: The Madras high court has upheld the detention of Pat t a l i M a k k a l K at ch i (PMK) leader Kaduvetti J Guru under the National Security Act, saying he had not denied having delivered a speech which was “abnormal, inflammatory, fuelling ..
Chennai: The state government’s attempt to explain the November 12 Law College campus clash by suspending an assistant commissioner of police backfired on Tuesday, with the Madras high court describing it as an “affront to the court.” Wondering as t ..
Coming down heavily on senseless violence and disruption of life in different parts of the country, Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan said that regressive brand of political action is threatening to undo the very foundation on which the constit ..
Amidst criticism over subjecting accused persons to Narco Analysis Test, the Delhi High court has upheld its validity stating that the test is essential in view of growing terrorism related cases and heinous crimes."The use of Narco Analysis is of pa ..
The Mayawati Government on Tuesday received a boost with the Supreme Court vacating the stay imposed by the Allahabad High Court on the suspension of the State Chief Information Commissioner, Justice (retd) Azgar Ali Khan.A bench of Justices B N Aggr ..
The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave four weeks time to the Centre to submit guidelines for regulating contents of programmes telecast by TV channels on the lines of those evolved by the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), a conglomerate of over 200 c ..
In a decision which may bring cheer to power distribution companies, the Supreme Court has ruled they are entitled to recover unpaid electricity bills of a property's former occupier from its new owner or occupier.A bench of Justices R V Raveendran a ..
Court Fines eBay Over Fake GoodsA French court has ordered eBay to pay 40m euros (£31.6m; $63m) to luxury goods group LVMH for allowing online auctions of fake copies of its goods. LVMH said eBay's French site had not done enough to stop the sale of ..