Woman’s dignity needs to be protected but sexual crimes should be proved beyond reasonable doubt: Bombay High Court
The batch of petitions that will be heard by the apex court tomorrow argue that the right to marry a person of one’s choice should…
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Delhi High Court awards compensation of ₹1.12 crore to schoolgirl rendered 100% disabled in road accident
The Court passed the order on an appeal filed by the schoolgirl challenging an order of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal granting her ₹47.49 lakh…
Atiq Ahmed murder: Assailants remanded to judicial custody for 14 days
Atiq Ahmed, a former Lok Sabha MP, and his brother Ashraf were killed on April 15 by attackers posing to be television reporters.
Mumbai court refuses to grant interim custody of minor to mother living as paying guest
Sessions judge SN Salve noted that the mother was a working woman and living as a paying guest and hence, would not be in a…
Bombay High Court grants bail to former BrahMos engineer accused of spying for Pakistan’s ISI
The Nagpur bench observed that the applicant had been in jail for 4.5 years with no possibility of concluding the trial in the near future.
Vinayak Savarkar kin files defamation complaint in Pune court against Rahul Gandhi
The complaint filed by Satyaki Savarkar stated that Gandhi had been “repeatedly defaming” Savarkar on various occasions over the years.
Social media views, follower count of defamation accused relevant while deciding applications for deleting tweets, videos: Madras High Court
The Court made the observation while temporarily restraining Nirmal Kumar, former State President of the BJP’s IT wing, from making unsubstantiated allegations of corruption against…
Kerala High Court dismisses PIL which alleged that movie ‘Kurup’ violated right to privacy of Sukumara Kurup
A division bench of Chief Justice S Manikumar and Justice Shaji P Chaly dismissed the plea on the ground that the movie had already been…
Rahul Gandhi defamation case: Surat Sessions Court reserves verdict on plea to stay conviction; order on April 20
During the arguments today, Gandhi questioned the complainant’s logic in claiming that 13 crore people with Modi surname were defamed when the total population of…
Right-wing activist Kajal Hindustani sent to judicial custody by Gujarat court in hate speech case
Hindustani had on April 1 allegedly delivered a hate speech targeting a particular community, during the Ram Navami celebrations in Una after which there were…