Mumbai based lawyer was today stabbed by his client outside the Small Causes court here following the latter's dissatisfaction with the way he was defended in the court. According to information received, Advocate Ajay Abada was looking after the civ ..
The Supreme Court refused to entertain a petition by the Samajwadi Party MP from Maharashtra Abu Asim Azmi challenging the Maharashtra government notification not permitting a candidate having more than two children to contest elections for Municipal ..
The Supreme Court in Aizaz & Others., Versus State of U.P., held that, `Common intention' implies pre-arranged plan and acting in concert pursuant to the pre-arranged plan. A pre-concert in the sense of a distinct previous plan is not necessary to be ..
Chartered accountants to help CBI in economic offencesNew Delhi (PTI): With economic offences seeing an increase, the CBI has written to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to probe the growing number of white collar crimes."The CB ..
The Goa Children's Court on Monday disallowed the petition filed against Fiona Mackeown, mother of British teenager Scarlett Keeling, by a Goa-based NGO for neglecting her daughter. The court refused to direct the police to investigate the role of F ..
The Supreme Court has ruled that in order to minimize the use of death penalty, it has the power to fix tenure of life imprisonment while substituting it for death sentence.A bench comprising Justices B N Agrawal, G S Singhvi and Aftab Alam, while su ..
The Supreme Court has reversed the acquittal of six persons convicted by a trial court in Uttar Pradesh for a triple murder that occurred 30 years ago. A bench of Justices R V Raveendran and P Sathasivam, however, reduced the life imprisonment impos ..
The Supreme Court by its Judgment Dated: 4-8-2008 in between Baldev Singh Vs. State of Punjab, opined that the demand made by the husband to his wife to demand her share in the ancestral property will not amount to a dowry demand. ..
The Supreme Court has threatened to issue arrest warrants against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, Union Transport Minister T R Baalu and four others for failing to respond to a contempt notice on the Sethusamudram bandh row. A bench of Just ..
Senior counsel Soli Sorabjee, representing Madhya Pradesh (MP) government, assured the Supreme Court that he will sort out all the problems allegedly being faced by the public prosecutor in Prof H S Sabharwal murder case.Senior counsel Vivek K Tankha ..