Source: thehindubusinessline.com He also wrote that the retirement age of high court judges should be raised to 65 years. Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking to increase the strength of judges and raise the retirement age of high court judges to 65 years. Gogoi has also urged

Source: scroll.in The Madras High Court on Friday said a rape victim need not approach a medical board or the judiciary to terminate a pregnancy less than 20 weeks long, PTI reported. Justice N Anand Venkatesh said that Section 3 of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971, said pregnancies that were less than 12

Source: barandbench.com The Delhi High Court has held that unless it is proved that a witness harbours some enmity against the accused or he wished to implicate him falsely, such witness would be treated as an independent witness. Interested witness, on the other hand, suggests that a witness ought to have had some animus against

Source: newindianexpress.com HYDERABAD: Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan was sworn in as the Chief Justice of Telangana High Court on Saturday. He was administered the oath of office by Governor ESL Narasimhan at a function held at Durbar Hall in Raj Bhavan here. Justice Chauhan is the second Chief Justice of the State high court. Later,

Source: npr.org Spain’s Supreme Court sentenced five men to 15 years in prison Friday for raping an 18-year-old woman — a unanimous decision that overturns an earlier ruling of a lesser charge and shorter prison term. Fearing the men might attempt to flee the country, Spanish authorities rushed to arrest four of them following the

Source: thehindu.com An animal rights group on Friday filed a public interest litigation petition in the Gauhati High Court challenging the Assam government’s decision to transport four juvenile elephants, two of them females, in railway wagons to Ahmedabad in Gujarat for the annual Rath Yatra festival at the Jagannath temple on July 4. Urmi Mala

Source: freepressjournal.in Mumbai: Opposing the petitions filed by two death row prisoners, the Maharashtra government on Thursday told the Bombay High Court to strike a balance between the rights of the convicts, the family of the victim and also the collective conscience of the society. The duo have urged the HC to commute their death

Source: indianexpress.com A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Deepak Gupta ordered Friday that further construction of the Kandi road inside Uttarakhand’s Rajaji tiger reserve be stopped forthwith and issued notice to the state government. Advertising The stay comes two days after an interim report was submitted to the court on June 19 by the

Source: deccanchronicle.com Hyderabad: Expressing dissatisfaction over state police rejecting complaints sent by citizens through registered post, the Telangana High Court directed higher officials of the department to take action against those personnel who refused to take complaints through hand or post. Justice A. Rajasheker Reddy was dealing with a petition by Mr K. Laxmipathi Raju,

Source:-indiatoday.in The authorities of the school in Ranikuthi area informed the police about the girl, a topper of her class. She was taken to a nearby hospital where doctors declared her “brought dead”. class 10 student of a girl’s school in south Kolkata was found dead on Friday in a washroom of the institution with