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Stating that we are not living in a Western country where live-in relationship is very popular and common among the citizens, the Allahabad High Court recently dismissed a habeas corpus petition filed by a man, noting that it was solely filed to extract a compromise from the woman’s family by placing them under pressure and fear of humiliation

In many cases, young criminals have got away from harsh sentences due to their age. But in other cases, they have been sentenced to many years of incarceration as they were mistaken for adults

The centre told the Court that opposition to GM technology was hurting farmers, consumers and the industry and adoption of GM crops was a policy decision supported by trials and expert opinion

Two Calcutta High Court judges are at each other’s throats, one having accused the other of being an “interested party”, vis-a-vis the Trinamool Congress. The situation has become so bizarre that the Supreme Court has had to take it up suo motu, giving notice to the state

A journalist who filmed an illegal sand mining act in West Bengal had a criminal case lodged against him by the police, threatening arrest. The Calcutta High Court saw through this police-politician nexus and allowed the journalist’s anticipatory bail plea. The media needs such backing to be able to report on critical issues

The Delhi High Court disallowed MTP for a woman, a recent widow, after the medical board said that foeticide was neither justified nor ethical when the foetus showed no abnormality 

The Kerala High Court has clearly said that while cohabitation for years may raise the presumption of marriage, it is not an irrebuttable one, especially when one of the partners is already married ...

The terror attacks between these two countries are emblematic of the historical and geographical ties that have entangled them in an edgy situation. Iran’s actions have put the Islamist bloc in ferment and churn

In a dramatic move akin to Kesavananda Bharati, Israel’s SC said the “unconstitutional constitutional amendment” to the basic law on adjudication which the Knesset had passed earlier was unreasonable

By ordering two students of a leading institute to undertake community service rather than them being debarred from taking their semester exam after theft of some items from stalls at the campus, the...