Gurgaon: Supreme Court's Justice P Sathasivam, who is also the executive chairman of the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA), on Sunday said that cases related to women are being given priority by courts after the Delhi gang-rape. "After the unfortunate incident in Delhi, we (Judiciary) are identifying the cases related to women and children and giving priority to those cases," said Justice Sathasivam at a function in Gurgaon.
He was speaking at the fourth annual function of Student Legal Literacy Mission organised by the Haryana State Legal Services Authority (HALSA). Justice Sathasivam called upon the students to uphold the constitution and maintain the unity and integrity of the country.
He also asked students to understand that public property should be protected and they should abjure violence against women. Through the NALSA and the HALSA, books were being published to educate students and people on laws related to women and children, he said.
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the HALSA has established 2,348 Legal Literacy Clubs in schools and colleges....
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05:06 AM, May 20, 2013
Islamabad: Unidentified armed men gunned down a Hindu man in Quetta city of southwest Pakistan on Sunday, police said. No group claimed responsibility for the murder. Madan Lal was standing near his house at Munir Ahmad Khan Road when the gunmen riding a motorcycle shot him and fled. Lal died on the spot. The body was handed over to his family after an autopsy. The motive for the killing could...
10:35 PM, May 19, 2013
Hyderabad: A youth from Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh was arrested on Sunday for creating a fake Facebook account of a female student and posting her morphed pictures, the police said. The youth, allegedly created a Facebook account of the girl and uploaded her morphed images along with obscene as well as false information, besides her contact number, the police said. The victim lodged a complaint with police after which...
09:46 PM, May 19, 2013
Indore: A software engineer here was arrested on Sunday for allegedly uploading an obscene video of a nursing student on the Internet. Kapil Gadhwal (24), a resident of Mandsaur, is employed at a call centre in the city, police said. Gadhwal befriended the 21-year-old nursing student who studied at a private college, and about ten days ago he allegedly shot an obscene video of her which he uploaded on the...
08:05 PM, May 19, 2013
Sreesanth's lawyer says he will move court to get the FIRs against the cricketer quashed in the IPL spot-fixing case. ...
05:36 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has held that the two-finger test on a rape survivor violates her right to privacy, and asked the government to provide better medical procedures to confirm sexual assault. A bench of Justices BS Chauhan and FMI Kalifulla said even if the report of the two-finger test is affirmative, it cannot give rise to presumption of consent on part of a rape victim. "Undoubtedly, the two-finger...
12:06 PM, May 19, 2013
Mumbai: Even as cases of financial fraud are dotting cyber space across the world, Indians seem more forthcoming in giving out their personal information for personalised services and simplification of finance management than their global counterparts, a study by Cisco has said. According to the Cisco report, 72 per cent of respondents from India said they would provide more personal information to simplify management of finances compared to 56 per...
11:23 AM, May 19, 2013
Mumbai: Observing that painting nude images prima facie amounted to an offence, the Bombay High Court has refused to quash a criminal complaint against an artist who painted nude and derogatory pictures of his estranged wife in his bedroom. The couple, who got married in 1998 and jointly owned a flat, were staying in separate rooms in Mittal Ocean View on Juhu Tara Road in suburban Santacruz as they were...
10:10 AM, May 19, 2013
Mumbai: A 26-year-old patient has been allegedly raped by a doctor in a clinic in a Mumbai suburb. Her husband claims the doctor offered him bribe to hush up the case and managed to get away with the help of the police. Protests were held on Saturday outside the local police station in Khar - where the clinic is located - after the woman's family alleged that the police were...
08:05 AM, May 19, 2013
Chennai: A drunk truck-driver who lured away and raped a five-year-old girl in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore town has been arrested, police said on Saturday. According to police, the incident took place May 12, 2013, when 25-year-old K Saravanan was cleaning the vehicle near house of the girl, whose parents had gone out on work. He took the girl playing outside her home to his house nearby and sexually assaulted her,...
05:30 AM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: Director General of International Labour Organisation (ILO) Guy Ryder on Saturday expressed concern over recent cases of crime against women and stressed on the need to ensure a climate where women can work with respect, security and equality. "Sadly, recent crimes against women have renewed our awareness of the need to act and to ensure that women in India and everywhere else are able to live and work...
02:08 AM, May 19, 2013
Jalna: Two persons have been arrested for sexually exploiting a 32-year-old woman, while two others, including a village sarpanch, are absconding. According to police, the woman, resident of Sattephal village in Jafrabad tehsil of the district, filed the complaint on Saturday. She has alleged that her late husband's uncle Bhausaheb Sonone, sarpanch Shivaji Uttam Bankar, Prabhakar Rangnath Bankar and Ramdas Punjaram Bankar had been sexually exploiting her for the last...
11:13 PM, May 18, 2013
Another case of shocking police brutality in Uttar Pradesh - a murder suspect dies and another is critical after being injected with petrol during interrogation. ...
09:20 PM, May 18, 2013
Lucknow: A murder suspect was given injections of acid and kerosene during police questioning in Uttar Pradesh, following which he fell sick and died in a hospital in Lucknow. Three errant policemen were suspended, an official said on Saturday. Accused Balveer was brought to Avagarh police station in Etah district on Thursday and allegedly made to sit on a hot plate and given injections of acid and kerosene. He died...
09:00 PM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: All issues, including the boundary question, would be on the table when Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meet in New Delhi on Sunday evening for talks. Li, who arrives in India Sunday afternoon on a three-day state visit, and Manmohan Singh are also likely to discuss the proposed border defence cooperation agreement during their talks, sources said Saturday. Li's visit comes days after the...
07:58 PM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday ruled out change of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the run up to next Lok Sabha elections but steered clear of questions whether he would again be at the helm if the UPA-III comes to power. In reply to questions about change of the Prime Minister soon and holding of early Lok Sabha elections, Congress spokesman PC Chacko said "please do not think of...
07:50 PM, May 18, 2013
Mumbai: In fresh trouble for pacer Sreesanth, Mumbai police's crime branch may book him in a spot fixing case registered by it and seek his custodial interrogation, Joint Commissioner (Crime) Himanshu Roy said on Saturday. Roy said permission of a competent court has been secured for obtaining "mirror images" of a laptop computer, an ipad and mobile phone seized from a room in a 5 star hotel in Bandra on...
07:04 PM, May 18, 2013
Delhi police sources on Saturday told CNN-IBN that Rajasthan Royals' bowler Sreesanth received Rs 10 lakhs of the total 40 lakhs as fixed. Bank accounts of the players were also checked and the sources added that there were strong evidence against Sreesanth and they have enough proof to prove Sreesanth's money trail. It has also been learned that the police team was sent to offspinner Ajit Chandila's house and they...
04:54 PM, May 18, 2013
Jaipur: In a shocking case of alleged sexual assault on hearing and speech impaired girls in Jaipur, five people have been arrested. The alleged incident took place at a residential therapy centre in Jaipur. The minor girls used to often stay at the centre for their therapy sessions. The therapy centre's warden, accountant and his wife, a security guard and an administrator have been arrested in connection with the case....
12:41 PM, May 18, 2013
Bhubaneswar: More than a fortnight after CNN-IBN exposed that Odisha-based Seashore Group had duped over 1.5 lakh investors of Rs 1700 crore, the state's crime branch on Saturday sealed the headquarters of the group in Bhubaneshwar. The company had reportedly offered investors 24 per cent interest per annum. While the chairman of Seashore Group Prashant Das has yet not been arrested, the police had earlier detained over a hundred staff...
12:21 PM, May 18, 2013
