NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday said protection of citizen’s safety and their right to live in safe social environments is as important as incorporating mechanisms in provisions of new penal laws to protect the rights of a person accused in organised crimes, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra.The observationcame from a bench of Justices Surya Kant…
NEW DELHI: The Bombay high court refused pre-arrest bail to a man who allegedly thrashed a 71-year-old man on suspicion that the latter was carrying beef on a train both were travelling. A single bench of Justice R N Laddha, in the order dated October 18, refused anticipatory bail to Akash Avhad, while noting that…
SC on Thursday began scrutinising petitions seeking to criminalise a husband’s sexual acts with his non-consenting wife by challenging the validity of the exception of marital rape from the offence of rape in Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita and its predecessor, IPC, on the ground that women have an inviolable right to say no to sex in…
