The Bombay High Court has rejected gangster Abu Salem's request for immediate release from jail. Salem claimed he had completed 25 years of...

Bilkis Bano Case: The Gujarat government's decision granting remission to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case has been invalidated by the S...

Bilkis Bano case: The Supreme Court has quashed the Gujarat government's decision to grant remission to 11 convicts involved in the rape of...

Bilkis Bano case: While hearing the matter in September last year, the top court had asked whether convicts have a fundamental right to see...

The Supreme Court has postponed the final hearing on petitions challenging the premature release of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape...

The Supreme Court has scheduled arguments on October 9 regarding petitions challenging the premature release of 11 convicts in the Bilkis B...

One of the convicts told the top court that the grant of remission for reformation and rehabilitation of the convicts is a "settled positio...

The submission assumes significance as one of the PIL petitioners, challenging the remission granted to convicts, has argued that their pre...

The Supreme Court is scheduled to resume hearing on Thursday a clutch of petitions challenging the remission granted to all 11 convicts in ...

"Public outcry will not affect our judicial decisions. We will consider only legal submissions and will not go by this (public anger over t...

India's Supreme Court is set to begin the final hearing on August 7 in a case relating to the remittance granted last year to 11 convicts i...

The Supreme Court on Monday sought a response from the Centre, Gujarat government and others on a plea filed by Bilkis Bano, who was gang-r...

Referring to the 1976 verdict of the apex court, the state government said that a "person aggrieved" should be one who has personal and ind...

The remission scheme is intended to ensure prison discipline and good conduct on the part of prisoners with the prospect of early release f...

Referring to the inconsistency in the 1978 verdict, Justice Lalit, writing the judgement, decided to refer the issue to a larger bench to e...

Perarivalan, whose application for remission of sentence was earlier rejected by the Centre, approached the Commission challenging the repl...

The home ministry had only told Perarivalan that there were 20 cases of remission between 2010 and 2015, but, no other information was give...