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Source: indiatoday.in The Delhi High Court has granted bail and suspended the seven years’ sentence awarded to a man for digitally raping an American woman who recently shot a video outside the Indian Consulate in San Francisco, alleging that she was denied assistance there. The incident dates back to 2013, when Delhi resident Rajiv Panwar

Source: deccanchronicle.com Chennai: The Madras high court has said, “Customary divorce can never be approved nor recognized by law. The Hindu Marriage Act, which was enacted in the year 1955, recognized such customary divorce and now, after a lapse of 64 years, the practice of granting customary divorce can never be adopted nor be followed and

Source: thestatesman.com The Division Bench of Chief Justice T B N Radhakrishnan and Justice Arijit Banerjee of Calcutta High Court rejected two Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on the ownership of Biswa Bangla logo. The PILs sought investigation by central agencies into the controversial “Biswa Bangla” trademark, which was created by chief minister Mamata Banerjee for

Source: hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court told the Centre on Friday to take a call on the elevation of Justice Akil A Kureshi’s appointment as Madhya Pradesh high court chief justice by August 14. A bench led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, which is hearing a petition about the delay in the appointment of Justice Kureshi,

Source: hindustantimes.com Former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Gandhi Nagar Anil Bajpai, who defected to the BJP just before the Lok Sabha elections, moved the Delhi High Court on Saturday, accusing Delhi assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goel of favouring the ruling party. Bajpai demanded Goel’s ‘recusal’ from hearing the anti-defection petition moved against him

Source: scoopwhoop.com A bench of Justices G S Sistani and Jyoti Singh said, In Mumbai, women can walk freely in night, why can’t it happen in Delhi. Where are we going wrong? We have the best resources and officers in Delhi, where are things going wrong. We find no reason as to why women should not feel

Source: mynation.com Kochi: The Kerala high court has ordered that CBI investigation is not necessary into Shuhaib murder case. The state government had strongly contended in the court that a CBI inquiry is not necessary and this was accepted by the bench headed by the chief justice of the Kerala high court. Shuhaib was hacked

Source: odishatv.in Bhubaneswar: In a significant development in the Kunduli gang rape and suicide incident in Koraput, Orissa High Court Friday directed the State government to complete the probe and submit its report within four weeks. Hearing a petition filed by senior BJP leader Kharbela Swain, the top court of Odisha also suggested the State government

Source: thehindu.com The Supreme Court on Friday found a woman, who had left India to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (IS), guilty on counts of criminal conspiracy and association with a terrorist organisation with intention to further its activities. A Bench of Justices U.U. Lalit and Indu Malhotra however disagreed with the

Source: thehindu.com The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Thursday directed the Southern Railway to conduct a survey with the assistance of experts and install closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in railway coaches/compartments for the purpose of providing adequate security to women, children and elderly passengers. Justice S.M. Subramaniam directed the Southern Railway to formulate guidelines