The prosecution will rely on data retrieved from Vishal’s electronic devices, including records of Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp chats.

In January, an eight-year-old girl from a minority nomadic community was allegedly abducted and gang raped in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua di...

A bench of Justices U U Lalit and D Y Chandrachud also dismissed a separate plea filed by two other accused in the case seeking transfer of...

The top court was hearing a plea by Talib Hussain, a key witness in the Kathua gang rape-and-murder case, alleging custodial torture by the...

The amendment replaces the criminal law amendment ordinance promulgated on April 21 after the rape and murder of a minor girl in Kathua and...

Singh, who is already a PhD, is the district and sessions judge of Pathankot. The judge, who has been in the judicial service for 27 years,...

The bill stipulates stringent punishment for perpetrators of rape, particularly of girls below 12 years. Death sentence has been provided f...

Aseem Sawhey, son of A K Sawhney who is representing one of the accused was appointed AAG by the J& K government.

People with knowledge of the matter told ET that the prosecution will urge the Court to issue directions to the defence to refrain from bri...

The amendment bill, once approved by Parliament, will replace the Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance promulgated on April 21.

The fate of the eighth accused, who is a juvenile and nephew of Sanji Ram, was yet to be decided after the crime branch of Jammu and Kashmi...

J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has also reiterated that she is determined to bring in the new law awarding capital punishment to child r...

The move comes in the wake of public outrage over the Kathua rape-and-murder case where the victim was a minor.

The saffron party leader Lal Singh, who resigned from the state cabinet, blamed J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti for her failure in addressing the iss...

The girl from the nomadic Bakerwal Muslim community had disappeared from near her home in the forests next to Rasana village in Kathua, 90 ...

Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who had also been at the receiving end of criticism on social media for not speaking up on the issue, brok...

A senior BJP leader in Madhya Pradesh today claimed a "Pakistani hand" behind the gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu a...