Source:- indianexpress.com Delhi High Court has upheld a trial court’s verdict granting divorce to a man on the grounds that his wife had denied him “conjugal bliss” for about two months after their marriage and had levelled unproved allegations of adultery. A bench of justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Yogesh Khanna dismissed an appeal filed by

Source:- news.sky.com The father of a British backpacker killed in India four years ago is calling for justice after the man accused of her murder faced his 87th court hearing without being committed for trial. Sarah Groves, 24, was stabbed more than 40 times while she slept on a houseboat in Kashmir in 2013. Dutchman

Source:- thehindu.com The Madras High Court Bench here on Wednesday directed the State Government, represented by the Principal Secretary, Law, Courts and Prisons Department to take necessary steps for introducing LLM courses in nine different branches of law at the government law college here within a year. A Division Bench of Justices A. Selvam and

Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Ending a nine-month drought in appointment of judges to the highest court, the collegium headed by Chief Justice of India J S Khehar recommended the names of four high court chief justices and an HC judge to the Centre for appointment to the Supreme Court. Many names in the list of

Source:- thehindu.com A 32-year-old waiter, who tried to convince the Madras High Court to direct the Union government to issue a blanket ban on the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), faced the wrath of the court, which dismissed his Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition, terming it as a “misadventure” for publicity, exploiting the current

Source:- indianexpress.com The Telangana Government plans to make changes in laws to hand out stringent punishment to offenders in acid attack cases. This was decided by the State Cabinet on Thursday. The Government would make changes in existing laws to ensure that those convicted for acid attacks are sentenced to 10 years in jail, an

Source:- thestatesman.com A total of 1081 cases and 75 preliminary enquiries are pending investigation/enquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as on December 31, 2016, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday. In a written reply to the house, Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Jitendra Singh further said that the government

Source:- ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  The office of the Attorney General of India (AGI) does not come under the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act as it is not a “public authority”, the Delhi High Court ruled today. The verdict by a bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath came on

Source:- hindustantimes.com Justice J Chelameswar, a member of the Supreme Court collegium that clears appointments to the higher judiciary, has questioned its decision not to elevate “the highly competent” Justice KM Joseph to the top court. Justice Joseph, the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court, was on the collegium’s shortlist last year. But his

Family of Kashmiri on Death Row Hopes for Relief Source:- benarnews.org Relatives of an alleged militant from Indian Kashmir said Monday they would appeal a death sentence and verdict handed to him last month by a court in West Bengal state. Muzaffar Ahmad Rather – a 27-year-old from Kulgam district in south Kashmir – was