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SC says Muslim women can seek maintenance from husbands after divorceThe Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that all women inclufing divorced Muslim females can file a petition under the Section 125 CrPC, which...
Mumbai police serve notices prohibiting unlawful assembly to Aarey protestorsMumbai police have started serving notices under the Criminal Procedure Code to people gathering to stage demonstrations against the constr...
Banks plan to move govt for tweak in CrPC to stop arbitrary arrestsCEOs of state-owned as well as private banks have discussed the subject during the managing committee meetings of the industry lobby Indian...
Lakhimpur violence: SC directs UP to grant protection to witnesses, find more eye witnessesA bench headed by Chief justice N V Ramana asked the Uttar Pradesh government, represented by senior advocates Harish Salve and Garima Pras...
Liberty a priority, don’t insist on arrest: Supreme Court to trial courts“We are of the view that if the investigating officer does not believe that the accused will abscond or disobey summons he/she is not requi...
Supreme Court dismisses bail plea of activist Gautam Navlakha in Bhima Koregaon caseThe top court had on March 3, sought response from the NIA on the plea of Navlakha seeking default bail in the case, claiming the charge sh...
POCSO Act has supremacy over Atrocities Act: Gujarat HCThe court gave the ruling on Monday in a case of rape of a minor girl from a scheduled caste, when the Gujarat government objected to the b...
Supreme Court refuses to entertain plea against execution of death penalty by hangingAn 88-year-old Kerala-based freedom fighter, S Parameswaran Nampoothiri, has challenged the legality and validity of section 354 (5) of the...
Lens on NRIs who desert wives in IndiaThe ministry of women and child development is also seeking a change in the CrPC to allow filing of complaints of child sexual abuse years ...
Rajasthan government tables controversial bill, move challenged in High CourtThe Criminal Laws (Rajasthan Amendment) Bill, 2017 was introduced in the Assembly by Home Minister Gulabchand Kataria to replace an ordinan...
Home ministry unhappy with CBI's move to chargesheet IB’s Rajendra Kumar in Ishrat caseThe home ministry has taken exception to the CBI’s decision to charge-sheet IB’s Rajendra Kumar in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case.
- AFSPA: Omar Abdullah ready to amend RPC to give legal protection to Army
Omar Abdullah has said his government is ready to give legal protection to the Army by amending the Ranbir Penal Code and making it on par ...
- Rahul's kisan padyatra violation of prohibitory orders: Police
Aligarh district administration said if Rahul Gandhi takes out a "kisan padyatra" it would be clear violation of prohibitory orders in forc...
- To save straying tigers, NTCA chief for enforcing Sec 144 CrPC
In view of increasing cases of tigers straying from protected areas, the National Tiger Conservation Authority chief Rajesh Gopal has sugge...
- Pvt complaint can't be used to prosecute public servant: Court
A private person's complaint cannot be used by a metropolitan magistrate to prosecute a public servant for works undertaken by him during t...
- The term 'wife' should include live-in partner too: SC
A two judge bench of the Supreme Court has favoured broad meaning of the term ‘wife’ to include live-in partners for the purposes of mainte...
- Public servants can be prosecuted without prior sanction: SC
SC has said that the public servants can face prosecution without prior sanction of authorities as all their acts in the purported discharg...