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Source:- indianexpress.com The Telangana Government plans to make changes in laws to hand out stringent punishment to offenders in acid attack cases. This was decided by the State Cabinet on Thursday. The Government would make changes in existing laws to ensure that those convicted for acid attacks are sentenced to 10 years in jail, an

Source:- thestatesman.com A total of 1081 cases and 75 preliminary enquiries are pending investigation/enquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as on December 31, 2016, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday. In a written reply to the house, Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Jitendra Singh further said that the government

Source:- ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  The office of the Attorney General of India (AGI) does not come under the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act as it is not a “public authority”, the Delhi High Court ruled today. The verdict by a bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath came on

Source:- hindustantimes.com Justice J Chelameswar, a member of the Supreme Court collegium that clears appointments to the higher judiciary, has questioned its decision not to elevate “the highly competent” Justice KM Joseph to the top court. Justice Joseph, the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court, was on the collegium’s shortlist last year. But his

Family of Kashmiri on Death Row Hopes for Relief Source:- benarnews.org Relatives of an alleged militant from Indian Kashmir said Monday they would appeal a death sentence and verdict handed to him last month by a court in West Bengal state. Muzaffar Ahmad Rather – a 27-year-old from Kulgam district in south Kashmir – was

Source:- indianexpress.com In a move to end fake mobile phone users, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to put in place within a year an effective mechanism to scrutinise the details of identity of over 100 crore existing and future mobile telephone consumers. A bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice

Source:- indianexpress.com A MAJORITY of those who had responded to its questionnaire on a uniform civil code, including many Muslims organisations, have opposed spontaneous triple talaq, Law Commission chairperson Justice B S Chauhan has said. The commission is currently examining the more than 40,000 responses it has received to the questionnaire issued in October 2016.

Source:- financialexpress.com The Supreme Court collegium headed by Chief Justice of India J S Khehar recommended 9 names to the government to take over as Chief justices of High Courts. This was a break from the earlier tradition of appointing acting chiefs for months at a time. If the government approves of the recommendations and

Source:- indiatimes.com KOCHI: An educated woman engaging in sex multiple times with a person who has promised to marry her can only be treated as consensual and not rape, says the Kerala high court. Even an uneducated woman cannot be cheated more than once or twice on the promise of marriage, the court said while

Source:- ibtimes.co.in At least 34 pubs and bars in the swanky DLF CyberHub in Gurugram could be forced to stop selling liquor, thanks to the Supreme Court’s order that sale of liquor must not be allowed within 500 metres of national and state highways. The order will be in place from April 1, 2017. It