Several media veterans and organisations on Monday deplored the government’s targeting of journalists and discussed ways of providing free legal aid to those from the profession who lack the mea...

If Aryan Khan, son of Shah Rukh Khan, or any other Indian citizen wants an apology from those responsible for wrongful incarceration, the law offers little recourse. However, the Indian Penal Code an...

Parents of a child who is a victim of sexual offence cannot enter into a “compromise” with the accused, Punjab and Haryana High Court has held. Parents cannot be allowed to compromise a c...

The Supreme Court has said it has the power to review the decision of the government on the acceptance or rejection of remission and is also empowered to direct it to reconsider its decision. A bench...

Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana on Friday asked subordinate judges to function with a “human face”, always keeping in mind the socio-economic conditions of the litigants, particularly c...

For a country with serious challenges to tackle, the amount of time and energy of government agencies and courts that is now spent on offence-taking and conspiracy-chasing borders on the ludicrous. Th...

Lawyer and civil rights activist Sudha Bharadwaj was granted default bail by Bombay High Court on Wednesday in the Elgaar Parishad case because of the police delay in completing the probe. However, t...

There are rumblings in West Bengal and Punjab over the jurisdiction of the world’s largest border guarding force, the BSF, raised in 1965 to protect the Indo-Pakistan and Indo-Bangladesh frontie...

The BJP on Monday urged the Election Commission of India to impose Section 144 of CRPC, which prohibits assembly of four or more people, in the entire Bhowanipore Assembly segment during the bypoll on...

The Delhi police filed a charge sheet in a court here on Saturday against a crematorium priest and three others for alleged rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in the Delhi Cantonment area earlier...