In a blow to the Maharashtra government, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected its petition and directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to continue with its probe into the Hari Masjid police firing on Jan 10, 1993, in which six people were killed. The police firing was to quell a ...

A local court in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor district Friday gave death sentence to six people in a double-murder case of August 2000, an official said. The special sessions court in Bijnor, some 300 km from Lucknow, gave the death penalty to the six people in connection with the killing of Mubarak ...

A lady teacher in West Bengal's first Muslim university, the Aliah University, was not allowed to teach after she refused to wear the burqa (veil) inside the varsity premises. Sirin Middya, a guest lecturer of the university, along with eight other lady teachers got a 'diktat' from the leaders of the ...

The Delhi High Court Friday said that information pertaining to appointment of top bureaucrats cannot be revealed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. Justice S. Muralidhar passed this order while dismissing the plea of RTI activist and Magsaysay Award winner Arvind Kejriwal, seeking disclosure of the information on the ground ...

The Supreme Court Friday dismissed the Maharashtra government’s plea against a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the death of six people in police firing during the 1992 Mumbai riots. It also directed the agency to complete the probe in six months. The CBI investigation was ordered by the Bombay ...

The Delhi High Court Thursday on held that a woman cannot book her in-laws under the Domestic Violence Act if the parents are not living with their son and his wife. 'There can be no domestic relationship of the wife of the son with the parents when the parents are not ...

The Gujarat High Court Thursday asked the central and the state governments to submit their report, within three weeks, on the proposed action to create public awareness that begging was an offence. The court was hearing a public interest litigation filed by Joseph Chelliah who sought the court's directions to the ...

An application filed by Rajesh Talwar, father of teenager Aarushi who was murdered along with her family's domestic help in 2008, seeking to restrain the media from indulging in reckless reporting on the case will be heard on August 9, the Supreme Court said on Thursday. Talwar, a doctor by profession, ...

Eminent criminal lawyer K.T.S. Tulsi will appear for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shootout case in which former Gujarat minister Amit Shah has been arrested, a government source said Thursday. 'The CBI decided to field Tulsi and an ASG (additional solicitor general) as noted ...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday summoned Geetha Johri, the first woman IPS officer of Gujarat, in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. Johri, who was the part of Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the case, has been asked to appear before the ...