The Supreme Court of India on Thursday has announced its intent to determine the constitutional validity of certain provisions in the Indian Penal Code and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita that provide immunity... Read more »
The Supreme Court on Monday has declined to entertain a plea challenging the exclusion of penal provisions for unnatural sex and sodomy from the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita, which has replaced the Indian... Read more »
Sixteen years have elapsed since a devastating blast struck Malegaon, Maharashtra, on September 29, 2008, resulting in 6 fatalities and over 100 injuries. The trial is now nearing its conclusion, with the... Read more »
A Special POCSO Court in Yupia on Saturday has sentenced Yumken Bagra, a warden of a state government-run residential primary school in Shi-Yomi district, Arunachal Pradesh, to death for the sexual abuse... Read more »
A court in Madhya Pradesh’s Narmadapuram district sentenced a 22-year-old man to death on Wednesday for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl. The Second Additional Sessions Judge of Sohagpur, Suresh... Read more »
A special POCSO court in Mumbai has sentenced a 19-year-old man to two years of rigorous imprisonment for inappropriately approaching a 14-year-old girl and saying “I love you” to her. Judge Ashwini... Read more »
The Bombay High Court has ruled that allegations of mistreatment by a man against his own family members do not qualify as cruelty under the law meant for women in their matrimonial... Read more »
The prosecution plans to charge Janhavi Gadkar, a corporate lawyer, with murder under the former Indian Penal Code for a 2015 drunk driving incident in Mumbai, where she allegedly crashed her Audi... Read more »
The Karnataka High Court on Friday adjourned to July 26 the hearing on former Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa’s petition to quash a POCSO case against him. The court also exempted the veteran... Read more »
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) charged 2 individuals, including a Libya-based terrorist, in the ISIS terror conspiracy case linked to the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Aurangabad), Maharashtra module of the global terror network. Mohammed... Read more »