Source: hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a public interest petition (PIL) seeking new guidelines to protect the identities of persons accused of sexual harassment or assault, issuing notices to the government for its view on the demand. The petition, filed by the Youth Bar Association of India, said allegations carry
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: A plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking direction to police to curb excess force used by it and maintain cordial police-public relation in the wake of recent alleged police assault on an auto rickshaw driver and his son in Mukherjee Nagar area of the national capital. The
Source: barandbench.com The Delhi High Court has held that unless it is proved that a witness harbours some enmity against the accused or he wished to implicate him falsely, such witness would be treated as an independent witness. Interested witness, on the other hand, suggests that a witness ought to have had some animus against
Source: newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday came down heavily on the city police for the assault on a tempo driver and his minor son in northwest Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar. Noting that it was an “evidence of police brutality”, a division bench of Justices Jayant Nath and Najmi Waziri asked the Union
Source: indianexpress.com The case dates back to January 1, 2012 when the girl’s father lodged a missing complaint for his daughter. A day later, he was called to the morgue to identify the body of a child he said was his daughter. Setting aside the death sentence handed out by a trial court to a
Source:- livemint.com The Supreme Court on Monday directed the CBI to complete within three months its investigation into the Muzaffarpur shelter home case. A report by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences had in May 2018 brought to light cases of sexual and physical assault on several girls living in shelter home in Muzaffarpur. After
Source:- hindustantimes.com The Mumbai police drew ire from the Bombay high court last week for booking a handicapped woman for allegedly subjecting her brother’s wife to cruelty. The court directed the Director General of Police to issue a circular to all police stations instructing officials to “apply their minds” before showing any person as an
