In a significant ruling, the Gauhati High Court has instructed the NIA Special Court to move the case involving Akhil Gogoi and three others to a standard courtroom. The court indicated that there is ...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalises cruelty towards women by their husbands or in-laws, does not violate the right to equality guaranteed ...
It was sedition by a new name. In February 2026, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant orally observed that the Centre’s promise in 2022 to review the provision could not bind Parliament. As if to release ...
In the annals of legal history, certain moments stand out as pivotal junctures that shape the course of a nation’s legal framework. The year 1833 saw one such turning point, when the British ...
The Indian Penal Code 1860 (IPC) used to form the core of criminal law in India. However, in recent years, the Government of India deemed it necessary to review the country's existing criminal laws to ...
The clarification comes four years after the top court, while hearing petitions challenging the sedition provision under IPC, had directed that “all pending trials, appeals and proceedings with respec ...
The Kerala High Court reduced a 2005 child sexual assault convict's 10-year sentence by half, citing lack of penetration ...
The Supreme Court on Friday said that the government’s decision to review the offence of sedition under the old Indian Penal Code (IPC) cannot prevent Parliament from introducing it in the Bharatiya ...
A tractor owner who permits a minor to drive is not automatically liable for conviction under Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code merely because the accident resulted in death. The more direct ...
MUMBAI: The Mumbai unit of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked an Ahmedabad-based enzyme manufacturing firm, and others, for defrauding Bank of India (BOI) of ₹121.60 crore. The firm, ...
The Delhi High Court has acquitted a man convicted for adultery, holding that the conviction could not survive after Section ...
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