Pradeep, one of the accused in the Delhi minor rape case has been arrested and sent to three-day transit remand. The Bihar police arrested Pradeep from his relative's house, where he was hiding. Manoj who had been arrested earlier, in his questioning had revea...
The second accused in the Delhi minor rape incident has been arrested in Bihar. According to reports he was hiding in his uncle's residence. The public anger has erupted once again on the streets of the capital.
The Delhi police have succeeded in arresting the second accused in the minor rape case. The police found Pradeep hiding at his uncle's house in Bihar. Pradeep has been in jail a few times in the past due to eve-teasing incidents. The people in his village had ...
The demand for the removal of the Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar gathers momentum once again. This time around the demand is coming from the Congress party. After Congress leader, Sandeep Dikshit, Girija Vyas has demanded that the he be removed from th...
Pradeep, the second accused in the Delhi minor rape case has also been arrested in the Darbhanga district, Bihar. He was hiding at his uncle's place where he was caught. The other accused, Manoj, has already been arrested and brought to Delhi. Pradeep will als...
The Delhi police have arrested the second accused Pradeep in the Delhi minor rape case. According to police sources, Pradeep will be brought to Delhi today. The doctors have said that the girl's condition is stable and that she will be discharged from the hosp...
Second accused in the Delhi rape case, Pradeep, has been arrested from Bihar's Darbhanga district. The police is set to book the two accused for gangrape, criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence. He is set to be produced before the court.
17-year-old son of a NCP leader, who mowed down a two-year-old child, has been granted bail. CCTV footage show how the car, driven by the teenager, mow down the child and her uncle and ride on to hit another vehicle. The case has raked up the debate on the pun...
17-year-old son of a NCP leader, who mowed down a two-year-old child, has been granted bail. The case has raked up the debate on the punishment meted out to juveniles who commit heinous crimes. Will the accused walk away as he isn't old enough to face the just...
The prosecution is expected to demand maximum possible punishment for Himayat Baig who is found guilty in connection with the 2010 German Bakery blast case. The prosecution could demand capital punishment for Baig who has been convicted under charges of murder...
A court in Pune has found the lone arrested terrorist Himayat Baig guilty in connection with the German Bakery blast in 2010 which claimed the lives of 17 people. Baig has been convicted under charges of murder, attempt to murder, criminal conspiracy and explo...
The daily-wage labourers of Thiruvarur go on a protest demanding that the Sri Lankan Tamils be given a separate Eelam. They also demanded that Rajapaksa be declared a war criminal.
Maharashtra is the pitch for IPL's latest controversy, this time over the usage of water for the maintenance of pitches in a drought-hit state. The MLAs in the state argue that if Asaram Bapu could face the law for wasting water during Holi celebrations and su...
Criminal red tapism, which delayed the purchase of equipment in KEM hospital in Mumbai, has jeopardized the lives of several children who were awaiting crucial heart surgery. Over 150 children have lost their lives owing to this delay. Here is another heartren...
A businessman was shot dead in his shop in Madhya Pradesh and the entire incident was caught on camera. Even though the accused fled the scene, they were caught by the police as the murder was recorded by the CCTV camera in the shop. The three accused are in p...
Over the past few months, several sarpanches in the Valley were assassinated by militant elements and many quit the job owing to fear. The Jammu and Kashmir government, however, has done little to improve the safety of the sarpanches. Nonetheless, documents ac...
Two days after it was passed in the Lok Sabha, the Rajya Sabha, too, cleared the anti-rape bill. The bill will replace the ordinance announced by the government for women's safety. Key provisions of the bill are inclusion of imprisonment for acid attack and ch...
The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, which was passed in the Lower House amid much drama and with major amendments being negated, will now be tabled in Rajya Sabha.
The diluted anti-rape bill, which received a nod from Lok Sabha, is set to be tabled in Rajya Sabha. Nonetheless, what was disconcerting was many of the politicians who promised to end crimes against women, chose not to attend the Lok Sabha on the day when the...
The much awaited Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill is set to be tabled in Parliament today. Following the immense political pressure, the government has caved in and increased the age of consensual sex from 16 to 18. The government has also acceded to certain dema...
Self-proclaimed spiritual guru Asaram Bapu comes under fire for wasting thousands of liters of water for pre-Holi celebrations at Nagpur's Kasturchand Park. Maharashtra government has assured a fair probe into this criminal wastage of water when the state is r...
The much awaited Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill is set to be tabled in Parliament today. Following the immense political pressure, the government has caved in and increased the age of consensual sex from 16 to 18. Meanwhile, members of the Justice Verma Committ...
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath says that the all-party meet has arrived at broad consensus over the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill. He expresses hopes that there will be further consensus over the bill when the meet reconvenes. He says that the...
As the much awaited Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill has hit a political roadblock, all eyes are set on the all-party meet which is set to decide the fate of the bill. Even as the deadline for the ordinance on crimes against women to lapse closer, political parti...
Government is likely to face stiff opposition in the all-party meet which is set to decide on the fate of the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill as SP and BJP have opposed certain provisions in the bill. These parties have made it clear that they will oppose the bi...
As the much awaited Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill has hit a political roadblock, all eyes are set on the all-party meet which is set to decide the fate of the bill. Even as the deadline for the ordinance on crimes against women to lapse closer, political parti...
Politicians, who assured that they are doing everything possible to prevent crimes against women, seem to have failed to reach a consensus over the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill. Most of the parties and leaders appear to be objecting lowering the age for conse...
Protests against Sri Lankan war crimes break out everywhere in Tamil Nadu. In Tiruvarur, ten students from the government arts college enter the third day of their hunger strike. 16 more students have joined the agitation, bringing the count to 26.
Stating that a separate Eelam is the only way to stop the Sri Lankan crisis, the students in Thanjavur demand that voting for an Eelam be introduced. These students have also been on a hunger strike for the past three days.
Following protests by law and arts college students in Salem, the classrooms wear an empty look. Several managements have declared a holiday for their colleges. Several students were also detained by the police for protesting without prior permission.
The union cabinet is set to take up the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill for discussion today after the Group of Ministers led by Finance Minister Chidambaram gave its nod to the bill. One of the key proposals in the bill is lowering the age for consensual sex fr...
Following the union cabinet's failure to arrive at a consensus over the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, the Group of Ministers (GoM), headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram is set to meet to frame the required changes in the bill for cabinet approval.
Following the union cabinet's failure to arrive at a consensus over the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, the Group of Ministers (GoM) is set to meet to frame the required changes in the bill. The government finds itself racing against time as there is a deadline...
Changes to the bill that would entail more stringent punishment for crimes against women would have to wait for some more time. At the Union Cabinet meeting today, differences between the law and home ministries over the changes led to the PM Manmohan Singh re...
The anti-rape bill has once again run into road blocks as parties and political leaders oppose certain suggestions in the bill. The biggest bone of contention is lowering the age of consensual sex from 18 to 16 years. Many leaders are of the opinion that this ...
The union cabinet defers discussing Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill following the failure of the cabinet to arrive at a consensus over the matter. Reports emerge that a group of ministers are set to take up the matter to end the differences among the various min...
The union cabinet is set to review the final draft of the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill. The bill, which was prepared in the wake of the brutal gangrape in Delhi, seeks to provide better security for women. Once the cabinet approves the bill, it will then be t...
A notorious criminal fired bullets at the Delhi police and injured the head constable, while he was being chased last night. Arvind alias Pushkar, who was involved in extortion and murder cases, was finally nabbed by the police after being chased for several d...
Even as the home ministry proposes a few amendments to the criminal law to curb the increasing number of crimes against women, the proposal to reduce the age of consensual sex from 18 to 16 has sparked a massive debate. While Union law minister Ashwini Kumar c...
Even as the Cabinet finalises on the home ministry's note on the Criminal Law Amendment Bill, the biggest question that has been making rounds is whether it is prudent of the government to lower the age for consensual sex from 18 to 16. The lowering of age of ...
The Ministry of Home Affairs will present its note on the Criminal Law Amendment Bill, which the Cabinet is likely to finalise today. Among the top five recommendations of the MHA, the word rape will be re-introduced and it will make it mandatory for all hospi...
With the intention of reducing crimes and increasing the involvement of locals in jobs, Saudi Arabia is planning to permit people who have illegally migrated to the country to return to their respective countries without facing any sort of legal trouble. Howev...
A gang has been pretty active robbing petrol bunks, jewellery shops and showrooms in Prakasam district, but were careless during an operation to loot Ahmed Jewellery in Manturu. The phone one of them left behind helped the police lock the entire gang up. The g...
A man, said to be a wanted criminal, died in a police encounter last night in Delhi. Mohan Chand, wanted by the police in 15 cases, succumbed to bullet injuries. The police claim that they wanted to capture him alive and when they realised Chand was shot, they...
European police authorities, Europol, have revealed that as many as 680 football matches are under the scanner for match fixing. Even a match of the UEFA Champions League, the most high profile football league in the world, is also under the scanner. Reports r...
While on one hand a special fast-track court in New Delhi will frame charges against the five accused in the Delhi gangrape case today, on the other hand, President Pranab Mukherjee will make the anti-rape ordinance official by signing it. The police had file...
Today is a special day for the country as a special fast-track court in New Delhi will frame charges against the five accused in the Delhi gangrape case and President Pranab Mukherjee will make the anti-rape ordinance official by signing it. The police had fil...
A comprehensive but super-fast look at what is making news across the country. Among top stories are the new ordinance against rape, Anna Hazare's call on Lokpal, weather wreaking havoc in northern India and Kejriwal's revelations against Sheila Dikshit.
The Union Cabinet has approved to bring in an ordinance to make sweeping changes to the rape laws of the country. The ordinance will incorporate most of the amendments recommended by the Justice Verma Committee. Not waiting for the Parliament's clearance, the ...
The Union Cabinet has approved to bring in an ordinance to make sweeping changes to the rape laws of the country. The ordinance, which will incorporate most of the amendments recommended by the Justice Verma Committee, will also give death penalty for rarest r...
MRPS leader Manda Krishna Madiga said it was a well-hatched conspiracy by chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, Home minister Sabitha Indra Reddy and DGP Dinesh Reddy to humiliate Congress MLA P Shankar Rao. He cited as evidence the allegations made by Shankar Rao...
Congress's top leaders came out in support--although not too vehement--of Shankar Rao who was taken into police custody from his house wearing a lungi and an shirt that remained unbuttoned. But police say they were forced to bundle him out of his house as he r...
Doctors at Care Hospital say they are keeping a watch on Congress MLA and former minister Shankar Rao, who is admitted there following health issues after he was taken into custody on Thursday. Police say they just wanted to serve a notice on the MLA at his ho...
Rarely has a MLA, and a ruling party politician to boot, been arrested in such an unceremonious way. with his lungi still untied and shirt buttons open, Congress MLA and former minister Dr P Shankar Rao was hurriedly escorted out of his house in Musheerabad to...
On Thursday evening, there was high drama outside Gandhi Hospital as Dalit organisations raising slogans protesting against the arrest of MLA Shankar Rao, who was admitted in the ICU after he fainted. The ruling party MLA Dr P Shankar Rao, taken into custody f...
The police will produce ruling party MLA and former minister Shankar Rao before the magistrate today. The MLA was, earlier on Thursday evening, bundled out unceremoniously from his house in Musheerabad as he faced a case of non-bailable offense related to case...
Newshour | Should the nature and severity of crime determine whether an accused can be termed as juvenile? Is the law being too lenient on the 'rapist minor' in the case of the Delhi bus gangrape, which occurred on 16th December 2012? Former Attorney General o...
Senior lawyer and Child rights activist Premila Nesargi and senior lawyer RK Gaur share their views on what the fate of the 'rapist minor', the main accused in the case of the gangrape of a 23-year-old in Delhi, should be. They also talk about what how the ant...
The family of the 23-year-old girl who was gangraped in a private bus in Delhi on 16th December 2012 is devastated after the main accused of the heinous crime has been declared as a minor. The family continues to fight for justice and the father of the victim ...
The Prime Minister of India has written to Justice JS Verma and has assured him of prompt action on the judge's recommendations. Sources say that the government is considering bringing in an ordinance to the effect, based on Justice Verma panel's recommendatio...
Sources say that the Ministry of Home Affairs is preparing a Cabinet note, ahead of the Cabinet meeting tomorrow, considering whether an ordinance should be passed to amend the rape laws in the country. Justice Verma in his report had suggested that the govern...
Delhi gangrape victim's father is unabated by the declaration that the sixth accused in the Delhi gangrape case can only be tried as a minor. Calling the decision to try accused as a juvenile unfair, he says that he will continue seeking justice for his daught...
Police cases have been filed against KCR for his speech at Indira Park on Monday. The TRS chief's attack on the Nehru-Gandhi family and on people from the Seemandhra region led to a rash of cases being filed in Guntur by Samaikyandhra activists, Congress leade...
Newshour | Can the definition of juvenile remain unchanged in the brutal rape case? Is it time to revisit the law? Member of AAP Shazia Ilmi, President of Janata Party Subramanian Swamy, senior advocate Malvika Rajkotia, lawyer Anant Asthana, senior advocate o...
Bibi Jagir Kaur is again in news for all the wrong reasons. The former Punjab minister has been accused of harassment by her son-in-law, who says the police are working on Kaur's instruction to build false cases against him. Kaur is currently out on bail in a ...
A member of the Aam Aadmi Party has filed a case against former BJP president Nitin Gadkari for threatening income tax officials. Gadkari reportedly tried to intimidate the officials who were raiding his company, Purti Group.
Senior criminal lawyer Majid Memon and women's rights activist Ranjana Kumari both are of the opinion that now that Justice Verma committee has already delivered its report, a path-breaking one at that, it is time the government takes responsibility and goes a...
MIM chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi surrenders before the Sangareddy Court and is sent to 14 days of judicial custody. He has been kept under custody in connection with the 2005 case of a non-bailable arrest warrant against him and his brother for abus...
Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan promises action against corrupted and criminal police officers. The minister has said that action will be taken against 133 police officers who are accused of misbehaving. Recently complaints were filed against police ...
Samajwadi party ministers have, once again, embarrassed the party leadership and government once again by breaking the law. Two SP leaders were booked under charges of kidnapping and assault. Panchayat members in Haridwar who came to register their votes in Di...
EU leaders seeking to concentrate more power on Brussels may face a major setback. British proposals to withdraw from EU law could make the UK a refuge for foreign criminals and repatriate justice powers from Brussels, Scottish chief constables have warned.
Israeli police consider the car bombing in Tel Aviv that injured several people as a criminal act and not a terrorist attack. The bomb went off close to the Israeli Ministry of Defence headquarters and a local crime ring leader may have been the intended targe...
News Night | One of the prime accused among the six offenders who raped and killed a girl in a moving bus in Delhi is likely to be out soon as he is only a minor. He reportedly is the person who inflicted the most cruel injuries on the girl. Does such a person...
The Supreme Court refused to hear a plea for removal and disqualification of Ministers with criminal history. The Court said that the Ministers were elected by the people and the Court cannot remove them. According to the plea, out of the 4835 MPs and MLAs in ...
Former Pakistan cricketer and India's most-wanted criminal Dawood Ibrahim's son-in-law, Javed Miandad, has cancelled his visit to India inspite of getting a visa. The former cricketer had earlier wanted to watch the third ODI match between India and Pakistan i...
Former Pakistan cricketer and India's most-wanted criminal Dawood Ibrahim's son-in-law, Javed Miandad, has cancelled his visit to India inspite of getting a visa. The former cricketer had earlier wanted to watch the third ODI match between India and Pakistan i...
It is a 650-page chargesheet against five of the six accused in the rape of 23-year old victim of gangrape. Police have made a long list of evidence and eye-witnesses accounts that could prove the gangrape case before a judge. The accused stole the phone of t...
A US citizen has been arrested in North Korea for unspecified crimes. State media says that the person entered the country as a tourist. North Korean officials claim that there is evidence showing that the tourist committed crimes against the state. North Kore...
It is a big blow for former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi. A Delhi Court today framed charges against him, Lalit Bhanot and others in the TSR scam, in connection with CWG graft allegations. Kalmadi has been charged with crimin...
More trouble for Suresh Kalmadi as a Delhi court pronounces its order on the framing of charges against the former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Chairman. This development is being viewed as a big blow for Suresh Kalmadi and the other accused in the ...
It's Happy Christmas for the Italian marines, facing criminal charges for shooting dead Kerala fishermen, who have been allowed to go home by the Kerala High Court. However, the High Court has asked them to put up a bank guarantee of Rs 6 crore and they have t...
Amit Shah wins his seat from the Naranpura seat after defeating his Congress rival by a margin of 63,335 votes. He credited his victory to Narendra Modi's leadership and development agenda. He also said that the CBI cases against him are foisted.
Pakistan Interior Minister stirred up yet another controversy by saying that 26/11 accused Ajmal Kasab's handler and Lashkar-e-Tayyeba operative Abu Jundal worked for Indian intelligence agencies. Malik says Jundal, who was deported from Saudi Arabia, is a kno...
Ministry of Defence (MoD) has filed a suit in the Mumbai High Court, claiming Adarsh land as its own. But this move by the MoD will not affect the CBI case as the agency is probing if there was criminal conspiracy in the way the land was allotted to the Adarsh...
After former servicemen questioned why the government has made Captain Kalia's kin wait for 13 excruciating years to give them justice, the Army Chief now lends his voice in support of the Kargil hero's family. The Kargil hero who was allegedly tortured to dea...
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has once again reacted to the clarion call for justice in Kargil war hero Captain Kalia's case. Khurshid has stated that Pakistan needs to be more sensitive on the issue. The Kargil hero who was allegedly tortured to d...
UK and France may vote in favour of Palestine at the UN assembly to grant it recognition as a non-member observer state. Nour Odeh, Palestine National Authority, says they are optimistic that the resolution will be passed. The US may not back the resolution.
Palestine will bid for statehood at the UN. This will mean it is internationally recognised as a state. It can then approach the International Criminal Court and participate in the UN General Assembly. Policy analyst Shikha Dalmia says it will not help the pea...
Palestinian officials have had their leader Yasser Arafat's remains exhumed so that the scientists can take tissue samples and assess what caused his death. Arafat died after a mysterious illness and the Palestinian officials will bring it up at the Internatio...
It is a small town in Kadapa district. But it has already more than one powerful gang, made mostly of students. They usually ride on bikes and mark out their spheres of influence. Even the police are amazed at how many of these gangs have sprouted in this town...
CPM has called for hartal in Idukki to protest arrest of party leader MM Mani. Mani was arrested in connection with the murder of Anchery Baby. He will be charged with criminal conspiracy, murder and concealing the design to commit the crime. Meanwhile CPI has...
The blade gangs are here. They are mostly juveniles, who take unsuspecting people by surprise, by attacking them with sharp blades, and then using the temporary shock suffered by the victims to steal their personal belongings. Vijayawada police has put up CCTV...
Satish Chandra Mishra, Mayawati's lawyer, speaks on the judgement made today by the Lucknow bench of the High Court that today dismissed six PILs filed against Maywati, which had asked for her prosecution in the Rs 17,000 crore Taj Corridor beautification proj...
The Supreme Court today dismissed the PILs filed against BSP chief Mayawati seeking her prosecution over the alleged irregularities in the Taj Corridor project. Mayawati's lawyer Satish Chandra Mishra explains the case particulars to the media. But the lawyers...
A total of Rs 17,000 crore were sanctioned in 2002 for the beautification of Taj Mahal's surrounding areas. But it was a scam and the High Court suo moto had ordered an inquiry. Today, ten years later, Mayawati has escaped being slapped with criminal cases in ...
The political rivalry between Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and his former party general secretary Amar Singh could soon be a thing of the past. In what seems like a patch-up between Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh, the UP government seems to ha...