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DHAKA:  Bangladesh’s highest court on Monday upheld the death sentence against a leader of the largest Islamist party after he was convicted of committing war crimes, including mass murder, during the 1971 independence conflict. The Supreme Court’s rejection of Mohammad Kamaruzzaman’s appeal means that he will now be hanged within months, provided the case is not […]

Since its inception, the Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that “no one can be a judge in his own cause”. This principle brings fairness to the justice delivery system and upholds equality of all before law. It also lays down a sound ground rule for adjudication, decision and punishment. It bars anyone from becoming a

HYDERABAD: A 23-year-old postgraduate student of the English and Foreign Languages University (Eflu) was gang-raped by two persons, including a fellow student, in a room at a men’s hostel on the campus on Friday night. Police arrested the two culprits on Sunday. The victim, a post-graduate II year student, is the daughter of an Indian

The Congress Sunday went out of the way to defend Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra, who is at the centre of a political storm over his unseemly behaviour with the media, but in private many party leaders agreed his conduct was inappropriate. At least one leader, Sandeep Dikshit, openly said “basic civility” should have been

A day after a father tortured his daughter’s alleged rapist to death, he told police that he did not mean to kill but could not bear that his pregnant 14-year-old would find no justice. “I burned his genitals once, he screamed. I did it again, he shuddered. When I did it the third time..he did

A three judge benchof the Supreme Court, consisting of Chief Justice of India HL Dattu, Justice Bobde and Justice Sapre pronounced that “the provisions of SICA, in particular Section 22, shall prevail over the provision for the recovery of debts in the RDDB Act.” The appeal had first come up before the Bench of Justice

A Supreme Court bench comprising of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu, Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice A.K. Sikri dismissed Nithari serial killer Surinder Koli’s review petition. The plea sought review of the judgment that had upheld death penalty awarded to him. Arguing for Koli, Ram Jethmalani asserted, “One innocent life is more important than anything

The Kerala High Court upheld the liquor ban in Kerala State in view of the revised Abkari Policy of the Government of Kerala. Through the revised abkari policy, the Kerala government had limited sale of liquor to five-star bar hotels and government-run retail outlets. The High Court, however, allowed four-star and heritage bar hotels to

A court in Sri Lanka has convicted five Indian fishermen for smuggling drugs into the island nation. Arrested in 2011, the anglers have been awarded the death penalty by the local court. With time until November 4 to file an appeal, the Indian Government too has made a statement and has reportedly said, “The Indian

The Supreme Court Thursday suspended defamation proceedings in five cases initiated by the Tamil Nadu government against BJP leader Subramanian Swamy for making critical observations against former chief minister J Jayalalithaa. A bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice UU Lalit, while suspending the proceedings before a Chennai court, also issued notice to the central