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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 Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act 1986 had not been made by her former husband. The Bench comprising Justice R. Bas..

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. In a plea bargain, Headley has been assured of no extradition to India in return. Also there wil..

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 argument in four to five days. Judge ML tahaliyani said if the arguments conclude by march 20,he would defer the case for delivering jugdment..

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 registration of complaints received by police as FIRs. No final view has been taken by the Central government. It awa..

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 she chooses to marry the rapist or have the baby conceived from the crime. div class="con..

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 amicus curiae (friend of the court) in the PIL initiated from a news report, told the court, “This is not carelessness or irreg..

 Shyam Benegal approaches SC to voice gay rights Gay community has finally found its lone supporter in note..

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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 villagers and murdered them in cold blood on December 21, 1995 when they failed to meet their demands for..

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 had sought directions to the Union Government not to permit the release of Ottavio Quattrocchi, a family friend of Gandhi family who is the main..

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 demand for a new police system for the country,’ Dr Moily told a conference on quality in governance. ‘The..

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 how, apart from bringing out amendments to the law, they planned to take effective actions for cont..

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 clean chit to Justice Nirmal Yadav, in the ‘cash-in-bag’ scam. The scam broke out in August 2008, when a bag containing Rs. 15 lakh ..

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Chhattisgarh Government to appoint Special Police Officers (SPOs), who are supporting the State Police in tackling the naxal problem, in accordance with the law. A three-judge Bench comprising Chief Justice K. G. Balakrishnan Justices S.H. Kapadia and Aftab Al..

SC UPHELD CONSTITUTIONAL VALIDITY OF COURTS POWERS TO ORDER CBI PROBE WITHOUT STATE GOVERNMENTS CONSENT WITH A RIDER TO USE IT CAUTIOUSLY AND SPARINGLY. ..