A bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud Monday said it would pass necessary directions Friday on the three reports. I...

"To that end, DSLSA will file quarterly report on the cases wherein interim and final compensation has been granted and the time taken by D...

The ministry in the notification issued on February 25 said that the scheme may be called the 'Compensation to Victims of Hit and Run Motor...

Compensation of ₹50,000 has been proposed in case such an accident causes “grievous hurt” caused to the victims, up from ₹12,500 at present.

The order came on a plea for compensation by the son of a Delhi-based taxi driver who lost his life in September last year after being stab...

The observation by a bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur came when a lawyer questioned the compensation scheme of the National Legal Serv...

The Bihar Cabinet today approved a proposal to increase the compensation amount for rape and acid attack victims in the state to Rs 7 lakh ...

The corpus of Rs 200 crore was set up by the MHA three years back as a measure to streamline compensatory schemes offered by states to vict...

The scheme says that victim of acid attacks, in case of disfigurement of face, would get a minimum compensation of Rs 7 lakh, while the upp...

A bench comprising Justices M B Lokur and Deepak Gupta, while asking all the states and UTs to file their responses within four weeks on re...

Advocate Jaising said that several crimes committed by these drivers have come to notice in the recent past and it is necessary to have som...

The victims of acid attacks and rapes will now get Rs 3 lakh, while the compensation will rise by 50 per cent in case the victim is below 1...

A formal notification in this regard will be issued by the Home Ministry after taking an approval of the Union Cabinet soon, the official s...

The bench sought to know what steps were taken on a host of issues to ensure safety of women and hasten conviction in cases involving crime...

The SC today asked the Centre to formulate a national policy for providing adequate reliefs to rape survivors.

If in case of a death due to negligent driving, the driver is unable to pay the compensation, state government must step in and pay the amo...

Dubbing Odisha as a "sanctuary" of criminals in view of the rise in crimes against women, opposition Congress walked out of the assembly.