The Supreme Court has recently said that failure to pay rent may have civil consequences, but is not a penal offence under the Indian Penal Code, 1860, while quashing an FIR registered against a woman and others for allegedly not vacating a property in dispute.
The Delhi High Court has quashed an First Information Report (FIR) registered against a man upon allegations of raping a woman at multiple occasions on false promise of marriage, while noting that the process of the law is being used as a tool for settling personal scores.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a petition on Thursday, seeking direction to register FIR against political parties, which indulge in distribution of freebies to the voters, so as to induce them during elections.
Andhra Pradesh High Court closes proceedings in PIL alleging inhuman and barbaric assault on a doctor by the police, directs the jurisdictional CBI Court to complete the trial at the earliest
The Court said the applicant's counsel had submitted that the prosecution case was imaginative with regards to granting bail. With the charge-sheet already filed, there is no hope of early conclusion of the trial and proceeded to grant bail.
A Delhi advocate has filed a complaint with Delhi Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana seeking action against Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union leaders Aishe Ghosh and Saket Moon for organising an event demanding the reconstruction of the demolished Babri Masjid in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya.
A Delhi-based lawyer has filed a complaint against senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid with the Delhi Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana for comparing Hindutva with radical Islamist groups like ISIS and Boko Haram in his recently released book, Sunrise over Ayodhya: Nationhood in Our Times.