More than 6,000 dowry-related cases are registered on an average annually according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the Lok Sabha has been informed.As per data compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), in the year 2004 the nu ..
Arms dealer Suresh Nanda, charged with receiving kickbacks in defence deals, his son and two others have been arrested by CBI for allegedly conspiring to fudge their account books seized by the IT department during a raid last year. They were arreste ..
Cancelling the anticipatory bail of the prime accused in the hit-and-run incident involving two highways engineers, the Madras High Court today said certain material factors were not brought to the court's notice when it passed the impunged order gra ..
The Supreme Court has on Friday reserved its judgment on a petition seeking transfer of Prof H S Sabharwal murder case outside Madhya Pradesh. A bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and P Sathasivam, however, indicated that the case may be transf ..
Soren acquitted in Chirrudih massacre case JMM supremo and Lok Sabha MP Sibu Soren on Thursday was acquitted in the Chirrudih massacre of 1975, Jamtara Additional District and Sessions Judge Arun Kumar acquitted Soren and 13 others for want of eviden ..
The Supreme Court has said that the special power of High Courts to quash criminal cases related to dowry harassment should be exercised "sparingly, carefully and with caution" as such powers are necessary to do "the right and undo a wrong".The apex ..
The Supreme Court has said that the inherent power of High Courts to quash criminal proceedings should be exercised "sparingly, carefully and with caution" as such powers are necessary to do "the right and undo a wrong".The apex court's ruling came w ..
The CBI today informed the Delhi High Court that it has filed chargesheets in 30 matters out of a total of 90 linked to the allotment of land to co-operative group housing societies in the housing scam case.Submitting a fresh status report before the ..
The Delhi High Court today decided to hear a petition filed by Uphaar cinema fire victims seeking enhancement of the two-year jail sentence awarded to the Ansal brothers, owners of the hall for 59 cinegoers' death in the 1997 tragedy.Justice H R Malh ..
The CBI today informed the Supreme Court that former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala and his MP son Ajay Chautala can be prosecuted in the junior teacher appointment scam of 1999-2000 without securing a sanction from the Governor or the Lo ..