Quote of the day by Julius Caesar: His words remind us that small actions can have major consequences. His insights from war and politics r...

The National Commission for Women has taken suo motu cognisance of a horrific gang rape of a minor girl in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvannamalai dist...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged police to register the Kultuli rape-murder case under the POCSO Act. She called for capita...

The new bill (BNS) has been rearranged keeping in view the ideals enshrined in the Constitution. The offences against women and children, m...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has introduced three bills to replace the Indian Penal Code of 1860, the Criminal Procedure Act of 1898, and ...

Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a punishment, the supreme court announced, hailing the latest in a series of "human rights advances"...

Condemning the Kathua and Unnao rape cases, Biren said, "The Manipur government seeks fitting punishment for the criminals."

Abduallah's comment comes in the backdrop of a nationwide condemnation of the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmi...

Asserting that the culprits in the case must be punished, he said if someone is not satisfied with the probe, he can move the court and put...

Delhi government's proposal to try juveniles of 15 to 18 years as adults for heinous crimes has got a thumbs down from legal experts and ri...

The best way forward is to build in caveats that still offer juveniles some protection: like one in the Bill that stipulates that such offe...

"Courts award death sentence, because situation demands, due to constitutional compulsion,"bench said.

It also had also shown no leniency, with few aberrations, to those convicted in rape-murder cases, especially involving minors and mentally...

The ordinance says trafficking will lead to imprisonment of not less than seven years but which may extend to 10 years and with fine.

Delhi Health Minister A K Walia today said the minor, who was allegedly part of the group that gang-raped a young paramedical student, shou...

Jolted by the extreme cruelty unleashed on Nirbhaya by the only juvenile among the six accused in the Delhi gang-rape case, the government ...

Criminal offences covered by the IPC must be re-classified into four comprehensive codes, according to the draft national policy on crimina...