New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday said that there is a need to act more decisively to protect women. Manmohan while citing the Delhi gangrape incident at a conference of Chief Ministers and Chief Justices of high courts called for strengthening of the justice delivery system. The Prime Minister said a great deal more needs to be done as far as offences against women are concerned and to...
11:00 AM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the joint conference of Chief Ministers and Chief Justice of High Court in Delhi on Sunday. The conference will discuss the ways and means to streamline the justice delivery system in the country. Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice Altamas Kabir will preside over the function. With the establishment of three new High Courts of Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura in March 2013,...
08:27 AM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said that corruption is a threat to the democratic fabric of India. The President also spoke on good governance and said responsiveness is an important aspect for it. While talking about increasing crime rates in country, he said the police should ensure that no crime goes unpunished for which the workings of the judiciary should be fast. Noting that the "root of poor governance...
01:58 PM, Apr 06, 2013
New Delhi: A Supreme Court appointed committee probing six cases of alleged extra-judicial killings in Manipur informed the court on Thursday that these were not genuine encounters and the victims, including a 12-year-old boy, did not have any criminal records. A bench comprising Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai perused the committee's report which said none of the six cases qualify as encounters and they are fake. The committee,...
01:30 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Liaqat Shah was on Saturday sent to judicial custody till April 12 by a Delhi court. A controversy broke over Shah's arrest by Delhi Police, which claimed that he was a Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist who had come to the national capital to plan a suicide attack. However, the charges were contested by the Jammu and Kashmir Police saying that he was returning to the Valley for...
02:51 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said he felt a little "insulted and humiliated" standing before a judge in a Karachi court, where he appeared to seek extension of his pre-arrest bail in a series of cases. Musharraf, 69, who ruled Pakistan for about a decade, following a military coup in which he overthrew Nawaz Sharif, appeared in a court in Karachi for the first time in his life. ...
10:58 AM, Mar 30, 2013
Expressing anguish over decreasing values in judiciary, legal experts on Friday said people are losing faith in the system. "Values in the judiciary, from lower courts to Supreme Court, are sliding and people are losing faith in the system," Kadapa district Justice CV Nagarjuna Reddy said. ...
01:07 AM, Mar 30, 2013
A local court on Friday sent four persons to judicial custody for 14 days in connection with the gang rape of a college girl, who had committed suicide following the incident. The four persons were arrested on Thursday, a day after the girl committed suicide by setting herself on fire. ...
01:40 AM, Mar 23, 2013
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld actor Sanjay Dutt's conviction under the Arms Act but reduced his sentence from six years to five years in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case. ...
08:30 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Mumbai has been the target of so many terror attacks, but March 12, 1993 will remain etched as its first encounter with serial bombs, and the destruction and death that followed. Today, the Supreme Court came out with its final verdict. 20 years is a long time for justice and closure still eludes the survivors. ...
11:52 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Pakistan on Thursday rejected involvement of its government or any of its official agencies in incidents like the 1993 Mumbai bomb attacks, saying it was committed to engaging India in a "sustained and result-oriented dialogue". Responding to media reports regarding the Indian Supreme Court's judgment implicating Pakistani government agencies in the 1993 Mumbai bombings, Foreign Office spokesman Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry "categorically rejected any insinuations pointing to the involvement of the...
08:50 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Read the full text of the Supreme Court of India's verdict on Sanjay Dutt's appeal in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case. ...
08:01 PM, Mar 21, 2013
A special CBI court on Wednesday extended till April 1 the judicial remand of YSR Congress president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy in the disproportionate assets case. Besides Jagan, the court also extended the remand of former minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana Rao, industrialist Nimmagadda Prasad and senior bureaucrat KV Brahmananda Reddy (all accused in Vanpic aspect of Jagan assets case) after they appeared before the court via video-conferencing from Chanchalguda Central...
10:44 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Is the govt sponsored anti-rape Bill good enough? Activist and former Miss India Gul Panag joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
06:46 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Government will shortly bring a legislation for an alternative system for appointment of judges to replace the present mechanism where a collegium of judges has a larger say in such decisions, Law Minister Ashwani Kumar said on Monday. Consultations were on with political parties to evolve a consensus, he told the Rajya Sabha during Question Hour. ...
01:08 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Why is the government not willing to include marital rape in the new anti-rape Bill? Advocate Mihira Sood joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
06:59 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Morality and prudence are polar opposite virtues, which when hold hands deliver political master strokes to those who wield them. For the heinous crimes of ...
01:37 PM, Mar 06, 2013
The trial of seven Pakistanis charged with involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks was today adjourned for two weeks after prosecutors informed the judge that they were awaiting an undertaking from Indian authorities regarding the visit of a Pakistani judicial commission. ...
04:43 PM, Mar 02, 2013
A rape that happened 17 years ago has animals of Junglistan up in arms. #Suryanelli is today the most trending topic. @ChikkuTheCricket Can ...
12:40 AM, Feb 28, 2013
Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir on Sunday said a major problem being faced in delivery of criminal justice was delay, 'where the entire process takes almost 15-16 years'. ...
06:08 PM, Feb 17, 2013
