NEW DELHI: Outlining a disturbing pattern of student suicides in educational institutions, the Supreme Court on Monday directed Delhi Police to register an FIR and probe the suicidal deaths of two IIT-Delhi students from the SC/ST community. A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan directed the DCP (south-west district) to register the…
NEW DELHI: Terming the practice of instant divorce through triple talaq as indefensible after a five-judge bench in 2017 declared it unconstitutional, Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would examine the validity of the post-judgment legislation providing for up to three-year jail term for Muslim men persisting with the practice of abruptly ending their marriages…
KOCHI: The state govt informed HC that the special investigation team (SIT) formed to probe cases of sexual harassment within the cinema industry has received eight complaints since the appointment of a nodal officer. FIRs have been registered in five of these plaints and three of them have been transferred to the concerned police stations.Advocate…
NEW DELHI: What started as a row over Union home minister Amit Shah’s remark on Dr. BR Ambedkar, took an ugly turn on Thursday with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress embroiled into protest vs counterprotest, scuffle and FIR vs FIR by the two parties.Parliament premises witnessed chaos as the BJP-led NDA and…
JAIPUR: Bikaner’s former royal family is locked in a legal battle over control of iconic properties and trusts, with two FIRs being filed against BJP MLA Siddhi Kumari, granddaughter of the last Maharaja, and her aunts Rajyashree Kumari and Madhulika Kumari. The properties under contention are Lallgarh Palace and Laxmi Niwas Palace, operating as luxury…
Jharkhand chief electoral officer (CEO) K Ravi Kumar Tuesday took cognisance of press conferences conducted by both JMM and BJP during the silence period ahead of the second phase of assembly elections on Wednesday and directed the district electoral officer of Ranchi to register FIRs against the two parties. JMM and BJP held press conferences…