Sexual intercourse before child is sexual harassment of the minor: Kerala HCThe Kerala High Court ruled that exposing a naked body or having sexual intercourse in front of a minor constitutes sexual harassment under...
Chhattisgarh businessman gets 9-year jail for compelling wife into unnatural sexA Chhattisgarh businessman in Bhilai-Durg has been handed a nine-year jail term for subjecting his wife to unnatural sex and dowry harassme...
Man can't be charged in cases where wife is 18 years of age or more: HC on 'marital rape'Justice Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra, while acquitting a husband under section 377 of IPC for allegedly committing 'unnatural sex' with his w...
1984 anti-Sikh riots case: Delhi court to record prosecution evidence against Sajjan KumarFurther, in the alternative, a charge for the offence of abetment defined by Section 107 IPC and made punishable by Section 109 r/w 114 IPC...
Crowd thrashes pilot, her husband, for torturing minor domestic help in Delhi's Dwarka; Indigo issues statement on videoAs per information, Dwarka Police Station received information regarding the mistreatment of a child's domestic help at around 9 am. It was...
For SC/ST Atrocities Act to apply, hurling of abuse has to be in public place: HCFurther, the court noted that there were other factors in the case. The accused Rithesh Pias had a dispute with the building owner Jayakuma...
1988 case: Supreme Court asks Navjot Singh Sidhu to respond to application within 2 weeksThough the top court had in May 2018 held Sidhu guilty of the offence of "voluntarily causing hurt" to a 65-year-old man, it spared him of ...
Delhi accounts for most crimes against senior citizens, says NCRB dataThe NCRB, which functions under the Union home ministry, classified 19 cities with a population of over 20 lakh as metropolitan cities. The...
Fraudulent inducement essential ingredient for cheating : SC, New DelhiA bench comprising Justices D Y Chandrachud and M R Shah said as per section 415 of Indian Penal Code, which deals with cheating, a person ...
JNU sedition case: Delhi court takes cognisance of chargesheet against Kanhaiya Kumar, othersFormer JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and others, including former JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, were accused of raisi...
Fresh trouble for Salman Khan: Journalist files complaint in court accusing actor and his bodyguards of assaultThe journalist, filed a 'private complaint' under IPC sections 323, 392 and 506.
Supreme Court to re-examine sentence awarded to Navjot Singh Sidhu in 30-yr-old road rage caseA bench of Justices J Chelameswar (since retired) and Kaul had on May 15 acquitted Sidhu's aide an co-accused Rupinder Singh Sandhu of all ...
Singer Mika Singh booked on molestation chargeThe model used to visit Mika's house often, he said. Police have not summoned Mika for recording his statement yet, the official added.
Kejriwal's achche din? AAP MLA 'misbehaves' with women, beats up 60-year-old man, detainedDinesh Mohaniya, who is also vice chairman of DJB, was picked up by police while addressing a press conference at his office in Khanpur in ...
Government withdraws over 1.50 lakh cases from courts in Madhya PradeshMP government has withdrawn 1.84 lakh cases registered under different sections of IPC in the past 10 years in an effort to reduce the burd...
FIR filed against AAP MLA for assaulting man in DelhiAn FIR was registered against Manoj Kumar, AAP MLA from east Delhi's Kondli, on Monday for allegedly thrashing a 26-year-old youth from his...
Court to consider charge sheet against Somnath Bharti on October 27In its charge sheet, the police said "9 African women were victims of molestation & manhandling by a mob led by the then Law Minister Somna...