The Supreme Court Tuesday gave another six months to the three-member inquiry commission, headed by former apex court judge V S Sirpurkar, to file a final report on the encounter killing of the four a...

A loss of faith in India’s criminal-justice system and perceptions that wrongdoers can evade punishment can explain celebratory responses from sections of the public to the Hyderabad police killing ...

Crimes are phosphorescent illuminations of the hidden nature of society. How we respond to heinous crimes is as significant as the shocking nature of these events. In a society that pays scant attenti...

Chief Justice S.A. Bobde on Monday constituted a committee of two judges of the Supreme Court — Justices R.Subhash Reddy and M.R. Shaht — for expediting all pending and future rape trials in the c...

The Supreme Court on Thursday set up a judicial inquiry headed by a retired apex court judge into the December 6 “encounter” killing of four men suspected to have gang-raped and burnt to death a H...

Sir — A pre-wedding photo shoot is the latest trend to have have gripped the wedding business. These photo shoots often allow couples to engage in a public display of affection — still widely cons...

Former BSF director-general and erstwhile Uttar Pradesh police chief Prakash Singh said the police’s version on the Hyderabad killings was not convincing.“Under the standard operating procedure, t...

Filmstars celebrated while jurists and activists condemned Friday’s encounter killing of four men accused of raping and burning to death a veterinarian on the outskirts of Hyderabad.Several hashtags...

A PIL was filed on Saturday in the Supreme Court seeking an SIT probe, monitored by former apex court judges, into the killing of four persons arrested on charge of gang-rape and murder of a veterinar...

Four suspects accused of raping and burning alive a veterinarian in Hyderabad were killed by police at Friday dawn. Except Telangana police which insisted the four were killed in self-defence when the...