An Allahabad High Court ruling states a wife's education or earning potential does not disqualify her from maintenance. The court considere...

Businessman Robert Vadra has withdrawn his petition in the Delhi High Court. The petition challenged a trial court order summoning him in a...

The Supreme Court quashed FIRs against a husband's in-laws and sister in a dowry harassment case. While the wife alleged they were aware of...

The Bombay High Court has upheld the acquittal of 22 individuals in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Shaikh alleged fake encounter case. Appeals filed ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Christian Michel James' plea for release from jail in the AgustaWestland scam case. James challenges t...

The Supreme Court has ruled that current laws are adequate to control hate speech nationwide. The court stated that creating new criminal o...

The Supreme Court has sent Christian Michel's plea for release from jail to a new bench. Michel is involved in the AgustaWestland VVIP chop...

The Delhi High Court has rejected Christian Michel James's petition seeking his release from jail. James is an alleged middleman in the Agu...

The new approach needs to take into account the travails faced by people facing such prosecutions. Mechanisms have to be built to ensure th...

Despite comprehensive guidelines having been issued by the apex court in 1994, regular arrests have been made that are even insisted upon b...

The special CBI Judge S K Yadav on May 14 had instructed the authorities of UP administration to install the apparatus. The Judge had to se...

There is also a divergence of opinion among state governments and respective high courts on the constitution of the AIJS.

Such a statement is recorded under oath before a magistrate and has legal sanctity. Only the complainant and the magistrate are present at ...

Cabinet decided to amend Articles 156 (3) and 190(1)(G) of the CrPC in view of several false complaints filed against public servants, a se...

For the country as a whole, the number of undertrials detained for more than five years is lower than 2,000. With a cut-off of three years,...

The bench also asked the trial court, which is to hear the case on February 29, to adjourn it for one week.

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...