As the crime of “honour killings” are taking place with alarming regularity, a research paper to be presented at an international conference in London by Chandigarh-based senior lawyer Ranjit Malhotra suggest that the total number of such killings could well be over 1,000 every year in India.

In a partial relief to the cellular operators in their dispute with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on the cellphone towers, the Supreme Court on Tuesday restrained the civic body from encashing the fixed deposits deposited by the operators towards the enhanced fee. However, it refused to grant any interim stay on the enhanced licence fee.

The Supreme Court’s attention has been drawn by NGO Shakti Vahini in its petition on the “honour killings” to nine parameters used for denigrating the women and urged the apex court to have a deep look into these “honour codes” to lay down the guidelines to save the fairer sex from any kind of social discrimination.

Taking note that there was no specific law against “honour killings”, the Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the Centre and eight states which have seen a spurt in such crimes.

In the age of “sting operations” and advanced technology, the Supreme Court in an important judgment has adopted a cautious approach on the admissibility of “extra judicial” dying declaration of a murder victim to prevent its misuse and put the onus entirely on prosecution to prove its authenticity independently. “The prosecution must

As the nation eagerly awaits for the GoM report to the Prime Minister on Bhopal gas tragedy, the ministers’ group surely must have taken note of the hard bargain resorted to by the Union Carbide Corporation to settle for $470 million compensation in 1989 and the Supreme Court making the government accountable to meet any

As the GoM on Bhopal gas tragedy prepares to analyse the case fiasco, the Supreme Court order passed a day after giving approval to the government’s settlement with the Union Carbide Corporation in 1989, clearly says that the Centre had agreed to drop the criminal proceedings against the US multinational and its officials.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the Andhra Pradesh high court order permitting Bellary Iron Ores Ltd, a company owned by industrialist S.K. Modi, to export iron ore worth Rs 50 crores from disputed Obulapuram area.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to rural development minister C.P. Joshi and Election Commission on an appeal by BJP MLA from Rajasthan on the issue of ‘tender” votes ordered to be counted by the state high court on Mr Joshi’s election petition on his one-vote defeat in the 2008 Assembly polls.

In order to enforce judicial discipline, the Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a series of orders of a division bench of the Karnataka high court questioning some administrative directions of its controversial Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran on listing of certain cases being heard by the bench.