The dream of a US couple has turned into reality as a Delhi court allowed them to adopt a girl child from India. The couple has a biological son from the wedlock and due to medical problems their chances of having second biological child are remote. The US couple was keen to have a sister for their four-year-old son.
The US couple — Jason Keith Jones and Jennifer Jones — got married in 2000 and were blessed with a son in 2006.

Dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were on Wednesday charged by a CBI special court in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, with murder and destruction of evidence in the killing of their teenaged daughter Aarushi and servant Hemraj nearly three years ago. Both have been charged under Sections 302 (murder), 201 (destruction of

In a first-of-its-kind case, a son has deposed against four of his family members, including mother, in a Delhi court. Appearing before the Karkardooma court of additional sessions judge Surender Kumar Singh, 40-year-old Surender testified that his mother and three brothers had allegedly trespassed his house and poured kerosene oil after brutally beating him and his children.

After hearing that its order on banning the sale of tobacco products within a radius of 100 yards of any educational schools or colleges in the city has not been properly implemented yet, the Delhi hi

Raising serious question about the identity of one of the prosecution witnesses (PWs) in the 28-year-old call centre employee Jigisha Ghosh murder trial, lawyer of two accused persons contended in a Delhi court as to how the PW could be trusted as he had allegedly failed in furnishing his identity to the court.

Even though the court had already framed charges against two accused persons allegedly involved in the murder of Pushpa Sen, the sister of retired Supreme Court judge D.P. Wadhwa and they were in jail since April 2010, the Delhi high court, after finding sufficient evidence against them, dismissed their bail application on the ground that they had committed a gruesome act by murdering a 80-year-old woman, who was alone at the time of incident.

Coming to the rescue of a woman who claimed right to residence in her in-laws’ house under the Domestic Violence (DV) Act, the Delhi high court has allowed her plea and permitted her to stay till she

The Delhi high court has asked a woman to pay `30.7 lakh to her former live-in partner to compensate him for allegedly misappropriating his gold and silver jewellery and `70,000 in cash, kept in her care when they were living together.

Modifying its December 23 order, the Delhi high court has granted a five-hour custody parole to Vishal Yadav, undergoing rigorous life imprisonment in the sensational Nitish Katara murder case, to att

The Delhi high court has declared that a marriage between a Hindu and a person of another faith performed according to Hindu rites would not be valid under the Hindu Marriage Act (HMA) as it is a basic requirement of the HMA that both spouses be Hindus at the time of the solemnisation of the marriage as per Hindu customs.