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PRESS RELEASE   New Delhi, 4th August, 2014   The National Human Rights Commission has taken..

Special provisions in the Bill will address heinous offences by children above 16 years of age Special provisions are proposed to be made in the revision of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 to address heinous offences committed by children above the age of 16 years, which will act as a deterrent for child offenders committing such crimes and will also protect the ri..

Terming Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Pal's remarks against women as "outrageous" which surpass "all bounds of civility", the Calcutta High Court ordered filing of an FIR against him and directed that the CID to investigate the matter under the court's monitoring.  div style="font-family: arial; font-size:..

The Supreme Court on Friday expressed concern over acid attacks cases by jilted lovers and others, saying the situation is pathetic and questioned the Centre for its laxity in dealing with the menace.     d..

PRESS RELEASE  23rd July, 2014    The National Commission for Women organized a consultation on ways  div style="font-family: arial; fo..

National Telecom Policy 2012 provides for facilitating establishment of a National Mobile Property Registry for addressing security, theft and other concerns including reprogramming of mobile handsets. There are more than 900 million SIMs/handset in circulation in the country and it is liable only on the part of the individual to stop its functioning and for its probable misuse if any from..

Mercy petitions of six death row convicts including Surendra Koli, found guilty in the sensational Nithari serial rapes and killings, have been rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee.    Besides Koli, mercy pleas of sisters Renukabai and Seema (Maharashtra), Rajendra Pralhadrao Wasnik (Maharashtra), Jagdish (Madhya Pradesh) and Holiram Bordoloi (Assa..

There have been some media reports that children are becoming victims of depression owing to cyber bullying. As per the survey report “Cyber Crime -2013 – Kids (India)”, published by the software company, Symantec about 18% of children have said that they have been victim of bullying on internet. It has ..

National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken suo moto cognizance of the media reports and the complaints received by the various organizations on the derogatory statement against women made by Trinamool Congress MP, Shri Tapas Pal. ..

The Women and Child Development Ministry has decided to repeal and re-enact the JJ Act, 2000. A draft of the proposed Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill, 2014 incorporating the suggestions already received during previous consultation process has been prepared.  The Ministry has uploaded a copy of the draft bill on the ..

The President, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee has given his assent to Whistleblowers Protection Bill, 2011 which was passed by the Parliament in the last Winter Session.   The Bill seeks to provide protection to persons reporting corruption or willful misuse of discretion by public servants, including Ministers.    The Bill also provides for s..

The Supreme Court judgment on January 21, 2014 commuting death sentences of 15 convicts to life imprisonment has been endorsed by two independent United Nations human rights experts. The experts also urged for temporary prohibition on executions with a view of completely abolishing the death penalty. Mr. Christof Heynes, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbit..

The mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar the wife of Union Minister, Mr. Shashi Tharoor remains uresolved. Sunanda was found dead in a South Delhi hotel room a few days ago. Mr. Tharoor, who had written a letter to Home Minister Mr. Sushilkumar Shinde offering his full cooperation in the probe into the death of his wife, recorded his statement before a Sub-Divisional Magistrate. span st..

A Division Bench comprising of Justices D. P. Singh and Mohd. Tahir of the Allahabad High Court stayed the arrest of Editor-in-Chief of India News, Mr. Deepak Chaurasia, in connection with a FIR lodged by a follower of Asaram Bapu, following a programme on Asaram Bapu that was allegedly concoted. ..

After the Justice A.K. Ganguly episode, a former law intern, who has made sexual harassment allegations against Justice Swatanter Kumar, while she was an intern under the judge in 2011, moved to the Supreme Court on Monday seeking inquiry against the ex-judge. div style="font-family: aria..