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Burdwan: A 12-year-old girl was on Thursday raped allegedly by the brother of a local Trinamool Congress leader inside the party’s office at Durgapur town in Burdwan district, police said. The girl was standing close to her house near City Centre area waiting for some relatives to come when local TMC leader Babu Mondal’s brother […]

New Delhi: A seven-year-old girl was allegedly molested by a 24-year-old man inside the premises of her school in southwest Delhi’s Dwarka area, police said. The Std IV student had gone to the school library on Tuesday along with two of her friends when the accused, identified as one Sachin, who works with a publishing

The Delhi high court directed former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala to appear before it on Friday after the CBI moved the court charging him with violating the bail conditions. Justice Siddharth Mridul Thursday issued notice to Chautala, who is also the Indian National Lok Dal chief, for his personal appearance in the court

The Bombay high court has ordered costs of Rs 40 lakh against 10 petitioners who filed a property matter that Justice Gautam Patel called a “sponsored” petition “without the faintest glimmer of merit. It is precisely the kind of litigation. Contact Lawyers In India : https://lawintellectindia.com/contact-us/

Madras High Court on Thursday dismissed a PIL challenging the change of guard in Tamil Nadu with the swearing in of Panneerselvam as Chief Minister after AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa was convicted in an illegal assets case. A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice M. Sathyanarayanan dismissed the PIL filed by an advocate,

The Supreme Court Wednesday refused to vacate or suspend an order banning animal sacrifice during Kulu Dushara and in other religious rituals of the Kulu region of Himachal Pradesh. The apex court bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice SA Bobde and Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre declined to order an interim suspension of the Himachal

An executive order called the Delhi Private Placement Agencies (Regulation) Order, 2014 has been released in compliance with the order passed by the High Court of Delhi in December, 2010 and December, 2013 in the case of Bachpan Bachao Andolan v. Union of India and others. In the case, the Court had directed the Govt.

Guidelines and protocols for medico legal care for survivors/victims of sexual violence have been released by the Ministry of Health and family Welfare. The guidelines have specifically been drawn up for rape cases, although the same could be used for other cases as well. They are aimed at doctors who might be indulged in handling

The Practice of letter circulation has been reinstated by the Supreme Court with immediate effect. Earlier former CJI R M Lodha had taken tough stand on adjournments and stopped the practice. It was the practice in the Supreme Court whereby the lawyers usually circulate a letter for adjournment and then inform the court, when the

In a joint operation, Vijayawada Police and the Delhi Police Crime Branch arrested four contract killers — residents of Delhi’s Kalyanpuri and Trilokpuri—and three others for their involvement in the killing of three members of a family on the outskirts of Vijayawada on September 24. The incident had sent shockwaves through Andhra Pradesh as the