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Source:- scroll.in From the day she arrived at her new marital home in Bengaluru, Seeta (name changed to protect her identity) realised that she had walked into a nightmare. Before her wedding in June 2015, her in-laws had promised her family that there would be no dowry involved. But the harassment began barely a few

Source:- india.com New Delhi, A 59-year-old man, who was accused of raping a woman in 1999 on the pretext of marrying her, has been discharged by a Delhi court which said there was an unexplained delay of nearly eight years in lodging an FIR. The court said neither the 47-year-old woman raised any alarm, nor

Source:- indiatimes.com NAGPUR: Even before the counting day, Nagpur High Court Bar Association’s (HCBA) newly elected president Anil Kilor had a host of plans in mind to take the body to newer heights. Though he never talked about them, he had made up his mind long back while working with the old team, without holding

Source:- The Supreme Court on Monday will continue the hearing over the appeals filed by the four convicts in the brutal Nirbhaya gang rape case of December 16th 2012. The convicts – Akshay, Pawan, Vinay Sharma and Mukesh – have challenged the Delhi High Court order which had sentenced them to the gallows, after keeping

Source:- ndtv.com New Delhi:  The pending disproportionate assets case that poses a legal hurdle against VK Sasikala’s taking over as the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, dates back to 1996. J Jayalalithaa, Ms Sasikala and her two relatives, Ilavarasi and Sudhagaran, had been convicted in the case that alleged that the former Chief Minister owned assets far

Source:- newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: Supreme Court today said it was “tentatively not convinced” with the grounds taken by Congress leader Jairam Ramesh to challenge Lok Sabha Speaker’s decision to certify a bill to amend Aadhaar law as a money bill. As the government asserted that it fulfilled the criteria as the expenditure for the welfare schemes

Source:- hindustantimes.com Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has come down strongly on Fabindia for selling its ready-made cotton garments as khadi products without approval and threatened legal action if this was not stopped immediately. In a notice to Fabindia, a multi-city apparel and home furnishings store, KVIC noted that the company had been warned

Source:- livelaw.in Calcutta High Court on Friday commuted the death sentence awarded by Additional Sessions Judge Arambagh to Lakhikanta Adhikary who killed his 26 year old wife and 7 year old son. The High Court awarded life imprisonment with minimum 30 years without remission. The case of the prosecution is that accused Lakhikanta Adhikary was

AIADMK general secretary VK Sasikala suffered a major jolt with the Supreme Court upholding the trial court’s judgment convicting her in the 21-year-old disproportionate case against her. With this, Sasikala stands disqualified to take over as Tamil Nadu chief minister. The apex court set aside the Karnataka High Court judgment of May 11, 2015 which

Source:- intoday.in Modifying its earlier order ordering that everybody must stand while the national anthem is played in theatres, the Supreme Court today said the audience need not stand if the anthem is part of a film. The apex court said the audience need not stand up when the national anthem is part of the