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The CBI on Monday submitted objections on the maintainability of a criminal appeal filed in the high court here against the acquittal of all 32 accused, including former deputy prime minister L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma…

KOLKATA: When a stepfather fulfils the same responsibilities as the biological father, a stepson cannot deny his obligation to maintain him, the Calcutta high court said in a judgment on Tuesday. For the same reason, a biological mother…

A local court in Chitradurga, Karnataka on Thursday posted for hearing an anticipatory bail application filed by the head of the Murugha Mutt, Shivamurthy Muruga Sharanaru, to September 2, in a case of alleged sexual assault on two minor…

Apex child rights body National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has taken suo-moto cognisance of the case of alleged rape of minor children by the head of the Murugha Mutt in Chitradurga and has issued a notice to the SP,…

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the Centre has set a target of taking the conviction rate higher than even developed countries and integrate the criminal justice system with forensic science investigation. The government…

People in several districts in Assam are set to witness another internet blackout as lakhs of candidates will appear for the second phase of the ongoing large-scale recruitment drive across various departments in the state government. In…

The president has given his assent to two legislations of Karnataka and Jharkhand under which audio and video-recordings of evidence in criminal matters would be allowed, besides paving the way for courts to hold trials against…

As the Assam government is all set to hold the recruitment exam to fill 30,000 government posts in various departments which is by far the largest recruitment drive in the state, mobile internet services will remain suspended around the…

The Supreme Court on Thursday referred to a larger bench the question whether an accused can be tried separately under the Negotiable Instruments (NI) Act and the IPC for the same set of allegations, notwithstanding prior conviction or…

Anubrata Mandal, a senior in the Trinamool Congress and the party's Birbhum district president, was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), on Thursday, at his Bolpur home in connection with the cattle smuggling case. The…