Forty five days after the gangrape of a 23-year-old paramedical student aboard a moving bus in the national capital, the wheels of justice have finally started moving. A fast track court in Delhi on Saturday tightened the noose around the five adult accused, charging them with murder, gangrape, destruction of evidence and criminal conspiracy under 13 stringent sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The accused have pleaded not guilty....
09:26 PM, Feb 02, 2013
The Juvenile Justice Board's decision to declare the sixth accused a minor in the Delhi gangrape-murder case has reignited the debate on whether there is a need to revise the Juvenile Justice Act. Speaking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy said that in such cases, there has to be retribution. ...
07:43 AM, Jan 29, 2013
Supreme Court lawyer Dayan Krishnan has been appointed as the special public prosecutor by city police to conduct trial in the December 16 gangrape of a paramedical student who succumbed to injuries during wee hours on Saturday at a Singapore hospital. "It is Dayan Krishnan, an eminent lawyer... He has volunteered to do it free of cost. He will be assisted by two juniors," Dharmendra Kumar, Special Commissioner of Police...
07:08 PM, Dec 29, 2012
Favouring a special session of Parliament on the issue, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday demanded more stringent laws against rape saying CRPC and IPC provisions were outdated. Expressing shock at the death of the 23-year old Delhi braveheart in Singapore, Banerjee said, "there is need for more stringent laws against those who commit such crimes as the provisions of the IPC and CrPC are very old." ...
05:10 PM, Dec 29, 2012
Former Supreme Court judge and Chairman of the Press Council, Justice Markandey Katju has slammed the politicians and the police for taking action against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi over some of his work that depicted Parliament as a commode and the national emblem with wolves instead of lions. Slamming the Mumbai Police, Justice Katju said that this was wrongful arrest, a crime punishable by law. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's...
07:29 AM, Sep 16, 2012
New Delhi: A move is afoot in the government to make corruption in private sector a penal offence with imprisonment up to seven years for the offenders. The government has proposed to make bribery in private sector - both giving and accepting it - a criminal offence by amending the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The draft Indian Penal Code (Amendments) Bill, 2011, circulated to States and Union Territories by the...
12:52 PM, May 27, 2012
Madurai: In a rare instance, a woman who killed her husband after he attacked her in an inebriated state and also attempted to rape their daughter, has been set free by police on grounds of private defence. "Investigations proved that it was an act of private self-defence and to safeguard her daughter's modesty. So police released Usha Rani charged of murdering her husband," Superintendent of Police Asra Garg said. She...
03:11 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Hyderabad: Police have registered a case against the father and other relatives of S Chaitanya Reddy, who allegedly killed his wife Dr Kiran Reddy, niece of Union Minister S Jaipal Reddy, for 'obstructing the police from performing their duty'. The case was registered against Chaitanya's father S Devender Reddy and others (including his relatives) for obstructing the police from performing their duties while Chaitanya was being taken to a local...
12:03 AM, Jun 24, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi Police are ready to book hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and writer-activist Arundhati Roy for sedition. Here are some facts on what constitutes sedition and its punishment under the Indian Penal Code. What is sedition? The section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) deals with sedition. Definition: Whoever by words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or otherwise,...
04:38 PM, Oct 26, 2010
Aman Kachroo died in March 2009 after being allegedly ragged by his seniors at Rajendra Prasad Medical College. ...
07:18 AM, Jul 18, 2010
He was convicted by a CBI special court in Chandigarh in December last year. ...
10:34 AM, Feb 05, 2010
Experts say political interference helped Rathore. ...
02:19 AM, Dec 24, 2009
Jai Narayan Pankaj is working as SP of Nayagarh. ...
04:57 PM, Aug 07, 2009
Justice Muralidhar was also the advocate on the same case in 1994. ...
09:28 AM, Jul 23, 2009
He alleged the verdict would promote homosexual activities. ...
10:30 PM, Jul 07, 2009
The Kerala Catholic Bishop Council will appeal against the order. ...
09:15 PM, Jul 03, 2009
Section 377 of the IPC criminalises homosexuality. ...
08:51 AM, Jul 02, 2009
Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code criminalises homosexuality. ...
09:56 AM, Jun 28, 2009
Himachal Pradesh govt says it would consider amending the IPC to make female foeticide a crime equivalent to murder. ...
09:09 AM, Nov 23, 2006
Women's association upset with verdict in Ruchika's case ... 
