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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Italian marine Massimilano Latorre to remain in his country till July 15 on health grounds. A bench headed by Justice A R Dave expressed concern over the delay in holding trial against them for allegedly killing Indian fishermen. The court said that trial should be completed as […]

NEW DELHI: Orders passed by foreign courts on matrimonial disputes involving Indian origin couples should be respected by Indian courts, the Supreme Court has said in a ruling which has implication for cases where relief is sought in India after one of the parties flies back to the country. While adjudicating on a child custody

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday said the right to maintenance of a wife was absolute and no exceptions could be made, ruling that Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which embodies this rule, would apply to divorced Muslim women as well. “If the husband is healthy, able-bodied and is in a

The Supreme Court on Tuesday referred to Constitution Bench a batch of petitions challenging the validity of a constitutional amendment and the NJAC Act, meant to scrap the collegium system of appointing judges. A three-judge bench led by Justice Anil R Dave said that all the issues relating to the challenge to Constitution (Ninety-Ninth Amendment)

The prosecution has questioned Salman Khan’s claims that it was the actor’s driver who was driving the car. In the previous hearing, Salman had denied being under the influence of alcohol at the time of the incident and had also reportedly shrugged off the claims that he was driving the car. Earlier last week, Salman’s

Malaysia’s police chief said Monday that 17 suspected militants have been detained for allegedly plotting to carry out terrorist acts in the country’s largest city, Kuala Lumpur. Inspector General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar said the 17 were detained on Sunday. Khalid tweeted that two of them had just returned from Syria. He didn’t give

Five days after Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) cancelled the first paper of Provincial Civil Services (Prelims)-2015 following it being leaked, some aspirants Friday moved the Allahabad High Court demanding that the other paper should also be cancelled as it, too, had been leaked. They, however, withdrew the petition on technical grounds, claiming they

Taking stock of the progress made in implementation of various reforms to speed up justice delivery system, continuation of morning/evening courts in lower judiciary for expeditious disposal of the growing number of pending cases, improving court infrastructure were some of the issues discussed on the first day of the three-day conference of Chief Justices that

Two judges of the Supreme Court opposed the decision of Chief Justice of India H L Dattu to call a conference of judges on Good Friday and one of them, Justice Kurian Joseph, said “I am deeply hurt… shocked by the tenor” of the response from the CJI rejecting his suggestion while raising questions of

Racist emails released Friday by the city of Ferguson indicate most were sent by a former city court clerk to two police officers, and there’s no indication other city employees were involved. The emails were discovered during an investigation into the August 9 fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was black and unarmed, by