Source:- indianexpress.com The Delhi High Court has reduced the life term of a convict, who killed a 25-year-old man, to six years in jail to grant him an opportunity to reform and rehabilitate. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhotra, which upheld the conviction of the 41-year-old man, showed leniency

Source:- thehindu.com In a set back to several candidates set join posts of Group A and Group B gazetted probationer following their selection, the High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday refused to vacate its April 5 interim order restraining the government from appointing 362 candidates who were selected in the 2011 recruitment batch by the

Source:- thehindubusinessline.com UNITED NATIONS, JUN 20:  Justice Dalveer Bhandari has been nominated by India as its candidate for another nine year term as judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the UN. Bhandari, 69, was elected in April 2012 during simultaneous balloting in both the General Assembly and the

Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Delay in amending the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act to provide women a wider window to abort terminally ill fetuses is forcing many to move the Supreme Court for permission to end their pregnancies that are beyond the legally permissible termination period of 20 weeks. The SC on Wednesday sought

Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com CHENNAI: Robert Pious, one of the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case who has been behind bars for more than 26 years, on Wednesday submitted a request for mercy killing to the Puzhal prison authorities. Pious was sentenced to life imprisonment but although the state government had decided to release all seven

Source:-indiatoday.intoday.in The Supreme Court today denied interim bail for controversial former judge CS Karnan. Karnan, who retired in disgrace as a Calcutta High Court judge, was arrested in Coimbatore on Tuesday evening. Karnan was sentenced to six months in jail by the Supreme Court, which ordered his arrest after finding him in contempt for defaming

Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court passes one line order —”Delay condoned. Dismissed” — in numerous civil and criminal cases, but it leaves death row convicts in the lurch as they lose the final legal battle for life in the last court of appeal without knowing the reasons. The practice of summary proceedings on

Source:- feminisminindia.com Rape is one of the most common and under reported crimes against women in India. It is carried out in different ways and cuts across various social structures. As a result, there are also classifications of rape for instance, ‘landlord rape’, ‘caste rape’, ‘rape by those in authority’, ‘class rape’, ‘police rape’ and

Source:- indialegallive.com If you don’t have the money to provide for basic facilities to schools, you should not be having the money to provide for yourself luxury cars and such other items. This was the clear message sent to the Uttarakhand government by the Uttarakhand High Court on Thursday (June 22). The High Court, hence,

Source:- indiatoday.intoday.in Senior CBI counsel Deepak Salvi today commenced his argument in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case and said that they will be asking for maximum punishment that is death. Pointing out at the casualty figures, he added that the court has to look at some glaring facts. “257 people had died and 713