Allahabad (ILNS): The alleged rape and subsequent death of the 19-year-old woman in Hathras has led to a nationwide outrage. The manner in which the Uttar Pradesh government and the state administration have dealt with the case is also under scanner.
The Karnataka government today submitted before the Karnataka High Court a proposal to include transgenders as one of the categories in “Other Backward Classes” (OBCs) for the purpose of recruitment.
New Delhi (ILNS): Even as a congenital heart condition threatens to end the budding career of FIFA U-17 World Cup team defender and current Mohammedan Sporting Club footballer Anwar Ali, the 20-year-old has reached the doors of the Delhi High Court for respite.
The Supreme Court yesterday granted bail to a man accused of aiding the escape of a terror suspect when the bench found that the man had not been named in the FIR. While not interfering in the progress of the main investigation, the top court set aside this order of the Rajasthan High Court.
A division bench of the Calcutta High Court yesterday refused to offer interim relief to Harsh Vardhan Lodha on an earlier probate court judgment that ordered his removal from all MP Birla group companies.
New Delhi (ILNS): Rapes have almost become de rigueur in India. Every day one hears of more horrific incidents. A time may come when the entire population would have become desensitised enough to ignore such news. The high courts, however, have kept vigil.
New Delhi (ILNS): The Supreme Court has set aside the conviction of a man under section 306 IPC (Abetment to Suicide), stating that inference without any material support cannot be basis for sustaining conviction under the said section.
New Delhi (ILNS): The Supreme Court today, while hearing a consumer dispute in a hire purchase agreement, held that “the financier continues to remain the owner of a vehicle, covered by a hire purchase agreement, till all the hire installments are paid and the hirer exercises the option to purchase.”
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has taken suo motu cognizance of the horrific Hathras gang rape case and the issue of the UP Police not handing the body of the victim to the family and cremating it forcefully at 2 am instead.
New Delhi (ILNS): Rejecting a plea from LIFE Mission Housing Project, a project for housing for the homeless with funds from United Arab Emirate Red Crescent, the Kerala High Court today allowed the CBI to continue its probe on alleged FCRA violation for the project of in Wadakkancherry, Thrissur.