Source: thehindu.com The Delhi High Court has upheld the life imprisonment awarded to a man for raping his 15-year-old daughter noting that the testimony of the victim by itself was sufficient. The man was caught when his sister noticed an unusual bulge in his daughter’s belly and decided to get her checked. The minor was

Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: A plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking direction to police to curb excess force used by it and maintain cordial police-public relation in the wake of recent alleged police assault on an auto rickshaw driver and his son in Mukherjee Nagar area of the national capital. The

Source: barandbench.com The Supreme Court will reopen tomorrow after the summer vacation. The Court was closed for summer vacation on May 13 with the summer vacation lasting for 49 days. The Vacation Bench, sitting in different combinations functioned throughout the summer holidays. Two Important judgments both related to the same larger controversy, Rafale, is pending

Source: tribune.com.pk ISLAMABAD: Terming the appointment of Mushtaq Ahmed Sukhera as Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) against the rules and regulations, Ministry of Law and Justice has said that there is no need of filing a reference in Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) or issuing a show cause notice for his termination. The law ministry quoted an

Source: freepressjournal.in Chennai: The Madras High Court has asked the Tamil Nadu government not to prevent protests highlighting the water woes in the state and said it should work with organisations interested in conservation of water bodies to address the situation. Justice N Anand Venkatesh made the observation on Friday while directing the Chennai Commissioner

Source: heraldextra.com PATNA, India (AP) — India’s Supreme Court on Monday directed state and national authorities to file reports to the court on an encephalitis outbreak in the eastern state of Bihar this month in which 152 children have died. A senior health department official in Bihar, Sanjay Kumar, said the epidemic is showing signs

Source: news18.com Chennai: The Madras High Court Friday orally observed agitations were becoming a full-time profession in Tamil Nadu and wondered how the state economy will prosper if any and every development project was opposed. Justice Anand Venkatesh made the observations while posting to July 1 a petition by Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) founder

Source: businesstoday.in Two high courts have refused to give relief to tax officials compulsorily retired by the government on serious charges of misconduct. Earlier this month, the government had invoked Section 56(j) of Fundamental Rules to compulsorily retire 15 officials dealing with indirect taxes and 12 officials of the income tax department over allegations of

Source: indianexpress.com Punjab and Haryana High Court’s verdict upholding the decision of Punjab government to narrow down the NRI category in medical college admissions is likely to have an impact on the petitions challenging a Sector-32 Government Medical College and Hospital’s decision to confine the NRI quota to only those candidates whose parents or grandparents

Source: financialexpress.com Vindicating the central government’s stance, the Calcutta High Court on Friday nullified the order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT)’s Kolkata Bench, terming it as ‘usurpation of jurisdiction’. The CAT order on Wednesday had stayed the ‘compulsory retirement’ handed to an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) official under Section 56(j) of fundamental rules. The