Source:- news18.com New Delhi: Supreme Court has sentenced real estate baron Gopal Ansal to a one-year jail term over the 1997 Delhi Upahaar fire tragedy in a major victory for kin of victims. Gopal had already spent four months in jail and will now have to serve out the remaining part of the sentence. The

Source:- timesnow.tv The Bombay High Court dismissed a petition filed by Jiah Khan’s mother Rabia, challenging the CBI’s charge sheet terming the actress’ death as suicide and not homicide, paving the way for trial to commence against actor Sooraj Pancholi in the case. Sooraj has been charged with the abetment of Ms Khan’s suicide. A

Source:- indiatimes.com HYDERABAD: Wondering how temple officials working under state government could give consent to the state to alienate temple land in favour of third parties, the Hyderabad High Court on Wednesday made it clear that it would not allow this in AP and Telangana. The HC further said that land transfer should be done

Source:- financialexpress.com The Jammu and Kashmir state government has recently sacked its standing counsel in the top court for refusing to file a review petition to dispute a Supreme Court’s recently passed verdict. Some time back the Supreme Court has said that Jammu and Kashmir has no vestige of sovereignty outside the Constitution of India.

Source:- news18.com New Delhi: The wife of a BSF jawan, who went public through the social media alleging poor quality food being served to soldiers, on Thursday filed a habeas corpus plea in the Delhi High Court claiming that her husband is untraceable and the family has been unable to contact him for last three

Source:- firstpost.com The Uttar Pradesh government has failed to make timely investigation and prosecute the seven cases of gang-rape filed following the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots and deliver justice, Amnesty International India said in a press release published on Thursday. The briefing furnishes the details of seven Muslim women who came forward after the September 2013

Source:- indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has ruled that a woman’s brother could neither be part of his sister’s matrimonial family nor claim right over property inherited by his sister from her husband. A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and R Banumathi ordered Durga Prasad, who had claimed to be part of the family

Source:- indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Despite the best efforts to speed up disposal of cases, pendency in the high courts may spiral to a monstrous one crore cases by the end of this year from the present 45 lakh cases as 24 HCs are functioning at present with 43% vacancies with only 599 judges as against

Source:- financialexpress.com The threat to civil liberties in India is very serious but there is also a lot of resistance against this threat in the country, according to one of India’s leading human rights lawyers. “In India, the threat to civil liberties is very, very serious. There is a determined effort to silence those who

Source:- indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The law ministry has cleared the files for appointment of five Supreme Court judges and forwarded them to the Prime Minister’s Office which will shortly take the President’s assent before they are notified, likely to be done within the next week. The SC currently has 23 judges. With the fresh appointments