A 33-year-old Muslim man, Mohd Ibrahim Sidhiqui, who had converted to Hinduism and taken the name of Aryan Arya in order to marry his paramour, a 23-year-old Jain girl by the name Anjali Jain, has bee...
Banned former India cricketer S Sreesanth on Monday (August 27) scaled down his demand for being allowed to play when he pleaded before the Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice...
Above: Siladon villagers stand with bows and arrows near a large stone slab that enumerates their rights under Schedule 5/Photo: UNI
The rape of five women in Khunti district in Jharkhand is part o...
The Delhi High Court takes notice of a PIL on massage parlours soliciting customers for the flesh trade
~By Deepankar Malviya
Over the past decade, there have been many incidents of illegal f...
Above: The Bhowali TB Sanatorium may soon be converted into a multi-specialty hospital/Photo: ratansharga.blogspot.com
The Uttarakhand High Court has slammed the state government’s bid to hand over...
Above: Activists stage a dharna against AFSPA in Imphal. There have allegedly been 1,528 extra-judicial killings by security forces in Manipur between 2000 and 2012/Photo: UNI
A petition by 356 sol...
In a debatable judgment, the apex court convicts a man on the grounds that his illicit relations with another woman abetted his wife’s suicide
~By Venkatasubramanian
Section 113A of the Indian E...
Above: Under the NDPS Act, the onus of proving innocence lies on the accused/Photo: prlog.org
The apex court’s acquittal of an accused under the NDPS Act raises questions about investigators’ compl...
The Supreme Court has ruled that though this option may be “an elixir” in direct polls, it could undermine the purity of democracy if allowed in the Rajya Sabha polls
~By India Legal Bureau
In a...
The Supreme Court on Friday (August 24) directed BJ Medical College, Ahmedabad to give admission to a vision-impaired candidate to study MBBS in the current session as per the provisions of the Disabi...