NAGPUR: Bombay high court‘s Nagpur bench recently ruled that sexual intercourse with a wife under 18 years of age, even if consensual, constitutes rape.The HC upheld the trial court’s order sentencing the convict 10 years of rigorous imprisonment, reinforcing Supreme Court’s precedent in Independent Thought versus Union of India. Delivering the verdict, Justice Govinda Sanap…
NEW DELHI: Rasik Chandra Mandal was born in a nondescript village of Malda district in 1920, the year Indian National Congress launched a non-cooperation movement against the British. More than a century later, he is pleading with the Supreme Court as a lifer for his freedom, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra. Convicted in 1994 in a 1988…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Friday said courts had no business to get into determination of speed limits on roads, national highways and expressways, which are to be fixed by experts and notified by govt. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan set aside a Madras high court single judge’s order quashing the increased…
TMC neta Kuntal Ghosh gets bail in teachers jobs scam NEW DELHI: Ordering the release of TMC youth wing functionary Kuntal Ghosh on bail in the primary teacher recruitment scam, Supreme Court on Friday imposed a novel bail condition – he will be barred from holding any public post. A bench of Justices Surya Kant…
MUMBAI/SAMBHAJINAGAR: The Maharashtra govt on Friday withdrew its order granting Rs 10 crore for functioning and strengthening of the Maharashtra State Board of Waqf, with Devendra Fadnavis intervening and pledging a probe into the order’s legality and timing once the new govt was formed. State CS Sujata Saunik withdrew the order, report Clara Lewis &…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday said it was of the prima facie view that the Shahi Masjid Idgah management committee should have appealed the order of a single judge of Allahabad HC before a division bench of the HC, instead of moving the SC directly, to question maintainability of Hindu side suits claiming the…
Just days after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge sought a return to ballot papers. NEW DELHI: Alleging that the Maharashtra elections were compromised, Congress Friday told EC there was an “inexplicable” rise in turnout in the last hour that added 76 lakh votes, and the governing BJP alliance manipulated the voters list resulting in an “inexplicable”…
NEW DELHI: In its first response to the indictment of industrialist Gautam Adani by US authorities for alleged bribery, the Indian govt said Friday this was a legal matter involving private firms, individuals and the US department of justice Distancing itself from the issue, the govt also denied it had any prior knowledge about the…
SRINAGAR: A day after Mehbooba Mufti and Sajad Lone, chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, too, condemned the court-ordered surveys of Muslim religious places, terming them a “dangerous trend” that could have “serious consequences”.Addressing the Friday congregation at Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, he referred to the death of five people during the…
NEW DELHI: Is Eknath Shinde, the caretaker chief minister of Maharashtra, upset over the turn of events after the ruling Mahayuti of BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP scripted a spectacular victory under him in the assembly elections?On Friday, a day after the first meeting of Mahayuti leaders on government formation in Delhi with BJP’s top…
