The Supreme Court in an important ruling on the scope of anti-dowry law and related provisions in the IPC, has held that unless a clear demand for dowry was proved, no person could be convicted for the dowry death.

The Supreme Court has warned the courts below against deciding the accident claim cases in half-hearted manner, saying the award of compensation was the only mitigating factor for a person disabled fo

When a deep churning is going on within the political parties on the contentious issue of “caste census”, the Supreme Court’s verdict on reservation in panchayats and other local bodies could prove a handy guidance to the government as it has strongly recommended “rigorous empirical inquiry” into the exact number of OBCs in the country.

The Supreme Court, dealing with two vital criminal jurisprudence questions, in rulings considered unconventional by existing legal standards, held that in a case where punishment with a jail term cann

To ensure complete justice to the rape victims whose cases are often weakened at the time of registration of FIR by the police under “influence” of the powerful accused, the Supreme Court in an important judgment has held that the FIR was not a “substantive” evidence in rape cases.

Advocate S.N. Jha, who assisted US citizen Jeff Knaebel, to understand the procedure while arguing his request for “politcial asylum” in the SC, claimed that the American, who fought in Vietnam, was “deeply

Zakia Jafri, the wife of slain Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, had referred to 13 Indian Penal Code (IPC) offences attributed to the 63 persons, including Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, some of his Cabinet colleagues,

The Supreme Court-appointed special investigating team on the 2002 riots on Friday submitted its much-awaited report on the interrogation of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and 62 others to the court.

The Ballery Iron Ore Private Limited, one of the six mining companies in Obulapuram area, on Thursday raised certain issues related to the overlapping of its mining lease with Reddy brothers’ Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC).

Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia was sworn in as the new Chief Justice of India by President Pratibha Devisingh Patil in a simple ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday. The 62-year-old rose to hold the highest constitutional post of the country’s judiciary from a humble background and is the 38th Chief Justice of India.