The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh recently stated that violent crimes against women and children are on the rise, and that courts should not be lenient toward those charged... Read more »
The Bombay High Court has recently discharged a man who had been in a relationship with a woman for eight years, saying that the man could not be blamed solely because the... Read more »
The Bombay High Court dismissed a petition seeking transferred of a rape case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). A Division Bench comprised of Acting Chief Justice SV Gangapurwala and Justice Sandeep Marne of... Read more »
The Madhya Pradesh High Court recently denied bail to Hashim, who is accused of raping a girl from the Scheduled Caste (SC) community while impersonating himself as a Hindu. The bench of... Read more »
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a petition filed by senior BJP leader and former union minister Syed Shahnawaz Hussain seeking the quashing of an alleged rape FIR filed against him in Delhi... Read more »
On Tuesday, the Additional Sessions Judge of the District Court in Greater Noida sentenced Sunny, convicted of raping a class 7 student, to life imprisonment and also imposed a fine of one... Read more »
On Tuesday, the Kaushambi court sentenced the man convicted of kidnapping and raping to 7 years imprisonment. When the convict heard the sentence, he started crying in the court. The incident took... Read more »
The Uttarakhand High Court has permitted the Chief Medical Officer, Dehradun, to make a medical board for the abortion of a 13-year-old pregnant minor girl immediately. The single bench of High Court’s... Read more »
In a rare instance, the Mazagon Mumbai Magistrate’s Court sentenced a 38-year-old woman to one year’s rigorous imprisonment, after finding her guilty of outraging the modesty of another woman. Metropolitan magistrate Manoj... Read more »