The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the pre-arrest bail plea of former Goa tourism minister Francisco Mickey Pacheco, facing the charges of culpable homicide in the case related to the mysterious death of one of his woman friend.

As the Centre prepares to fast track the process on the proposed legislation against “honour killings”, an important question — whether the law will cover all past cases of such crimes — has arisen from the “vague definition” left by legislature in the Domestic Violence Act, 2005 on its retrospective applicability.

In the wake of the long-standing demand of NRIs and international community that India should sign the “Hague Convention” on custody of children in the cases on inter-country marital disputes, the Law Commission’s recommendation on the same line becomes very relevant as an international conference in London deliberates on the issue.

The Supreme Court on Monday decried the Karnataka government decision effecting changes in the rule for admission of serving MBBS doctors and dentists in the PG courses by doing away with the “rural weightage” for serving the rural people.

In the wake of various legal hurdles coming in the way of deciding cases of child custody on the break-up of the marriages of Indian girls with NRIs or vice-versa, 30 million people of Indian origin living abroad are awaiting for a promised legislation by the government to deal with the problem.

Handling of the Bhopal gas tragedy case by the then Arjun Singh government initially might cause sufficient legal hurdles for the government and the CBI to prepare the curative petition against the 1996 Supreme Court judgement dropping the charge of “culpable homicide not amounting to murder” against the UCIL officials.

As the government law officers get down to examine the 1996 Supreme Court judgment on dilution of the charges in the Bhopal gas tragedy case to file the curative petition, it has emerged from the verdict itself that the plant had many technical deficiencies from the very beginning and the company had even decided to shut down and dismantle it just before the 1984 disaster.

The three wings of the government — executive, legislature and the judiciary — have failed to prevent forced marriages, a major cause of the “honour killings” and there is urgent need to put in place

As the Union Cabinet decided to file curative petition in the Supreme Court for review of its 1996 judgement diluting charges against Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) officials, a series of warnings abo

As instances of “honour killings” are reported with alarming — and increasing — regularity across the country, a research paper to be presented at an international conference in London by some Indian jurists on crimes against women next week suggests that the total number of such killings could be well over 1,000 every year in India.