Taking strong exception to the recent incidents of police beating protesting contractual teachers in Bihar and a girl in Tarn Taran in Punjab, the Supreme Court today sought explanation from the two states on the conduct of police personnel.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today reserved its order on a petition challenging the appointment of Justice N V Ramana as a judge of Andhra Pradesh High Court despite pendency of a criminal case again

Belgaum: With the clamour for commuting the death sentence awarded to the four associates of Veerappan increasing, their fate remains uncertain with the government deciding not to hurry with the exec

New Delhi: The ‘rarest of rare case’ test is not ‘judge centric’ but depends on the perception of society and whether it would approve the award of death sentence to those convicted in certain types

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday questioned the CBI for its long delay over challenging the Allahabad High Court verdict which held that senior BJP leaders, including L.K. Advani and Murli Ma

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today said police personnel who are put on duty for giving security cover to VIPs be deployed for better purposes like making the roads safe for women.
A bench headed by

New Delhi: Ticking off the Centre for “flouting the law” for the last five years, the Supreme Court on Monday set a February 20 deadline to notify Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal award, saying it has

New Delhi: Sociologist Ashis Nandy, who stoked a controversy at the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) over his alleged anti-Dalit remarks, will request the Supreme Court on Thursday to quash all the F

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea to shift the trial in Delhi gangrape-cum-murder case to a place outside the national capital.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir rejecte

New Delhi: In a partial relief to Bollywood star Salman Khan and four other actors, the Supreme Court today refused to entertain a plea of Rajasthan government seeking to re-invoke the charge of riot