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Mother cannot seek maintenance from step-son after getting it from real son: Allahabad HC

For representation only (HT Photo)

Published 18 days ago

Delhi court sets aside order declaring man absconder, cites non-compliance with CrPC provisions

Delhi court sets aside order declaring man absconder, cites non-compliance with CrPC provisions

Published 157 days ago

The victim has rights, even after death

The court’s reasoning also reflects a broader shift towards recognising victims as active stakeholders rather than passive spectators in criminal proceedings. (HT Archive)

Published 221 days ago

SC expands scope of ‘victim’, allows heirs to continue cases

SC expands scope of ‘victim’, allows heirs to continue cases

Published 222 days ago

UP ex-minister Gayatri Prajapati granted one-month parole to attend ailing siblings

Gayatri Prajapati is required to regularly mark his attendance at the local police station during the parole period. (File)

Published 271 days ago

Anticipatory bail approach of Kerala high court under SC scanner

Supreme Court of India. (PTI)

Published 328 days ago

HC raps cops for poorly maintained case diaries, seeks affidavit from DGP

IPS officer Rashmi Shukla (Photo by Anshuman Poyrekar/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)

Published 386 days ago

Proclaimed offender’s property attached by Police in Poonch, JK

Despite repeated efforts to apprehend him, Bashir continued to evade arrest, leading the court to issue orders for attachment of his property. (ANI File Photo)

Published 478 days ago

HC refers key arrest procedure issues to larger bench

HC refers key arrest procedure issues to larger bench

Published 548 days ago

Alimony can’t be a condition for bail in marital disputes: SC

Emphasising that such a stipulation lies outside the scope of bail conditions, the apex court asserted that the conditions of bail must be relevant to ensuring a free and fair trial. (HT PHOTO)

Updated 572 days ago

Failure to appear in court an independent offence, SC rules

The court said non-appearance itself constitutes an offence, irrespective of whether the proclamation is later nullified or the accused is finally acquitted. (HT PHOTO)

Updated 576 days ago

Absconding accused entitled to default bail, says HC

Absconding accused entitled to default bail, says HC

Updated 584 days ago

Morning briefing: How 3 new laws reimagine crime; and more

The government has announced that while the British colonial rulers implemented these laws with an intent to inflict punishment on Indian subjects, the new laws aim to render justice to citizens by overhauling the punishment and procedures applicable for the investigation and prosecution of crimes.. (Arvind Yadav/HT Photo)

Published 762 days ago

Gurugram cops gear up, undergo training to implement three new laws from July 1

Gurugram, India-May 26, 2024: Haryana Police and Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) stand guard outside a sealed 'strong room' where electronic voting machines (EVM) are kept following Lok Sabha election of Haryana state at Government Girl College in sector-14, in Gurugram, India, on Sunday, 26 May 2024. (Photo by Parveen Kumar/Hindustan Times)

Updated 771 days ago

Put on hold three criminal laws, consult stakeholders: Stalin in letter to Shah

Tamil Nadu chief minister and DMK leader MK Stalin. (ANI)

Updated 775 days ago

Chandigarh admn imposes Section 144 near HCS exam centres

All Photostat machine shops within 200 metres around the examination centres and coaching centres in their vicinity will remain closed on Sunday till the examination is over, as per the Chandigarh district magistrate’s order. (HT Photo)

Updated 883 days ago

By Dec 2024, Chandigarh will be ready to implement new criminal laws: Amit Shah

From left: UT administrator Banwarilal Purohit, Union home minister Amit Shah and mayor Anup Gupta at Chandigarh College of Engineering and Technology, Sector 26, on Friday. (Ravi Kumar/HT)

Updated 953 days ago

New code will entrench prejudices in the police

Everyday policing in India is primarily driven by petty offences. (PTI)

Published 983 days ago

MHA to now review other pre-Independence acts

A timeline for amending these acts has not been decided but officials said such reviews are part of a continuous process (AP)

Updated 1012 days ago

Over three bills: Opposition MPs set to give dissent notes on report

Two prominent Opposition members -- former Union minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram and Trinamool Congress’s Rajya Sabha floor leader Derek O’Brien -- have written to Lal, opposing any haste in adopting the report (AP)

Updated 1012 days ago

Chandigarh: Ahead of festive season, 123 snatchers on police radar

Chandigarh Police have initiated prevention action against a total of 123 snatchers, 72 of them repeat offenders — those booked for the same offence more than two times. (HT)

Updated 1038 days ago

Section 144 imposed in Karnataka ahead of bandh over Cauvery row

A view of closed shops in the KR Market amid the 'Bengaluru bandh' called by the Kannada activists and farmers over the release of Cauvery River water to Tamil Nadu, in Bengaluru on Tuesday. (ANI)

Updated 1039 days ago

Oppn MPs seek views of jurists, experts on bills to replace criminal laws

Opposition members of Parliament demand views of more expert on bills to replace criminal code, IPC, evidence act. (HT Archive)

Updated 1055 days ago

To fight mob lynching, police reforms a must

The states, so far, have been miserly in allocating funds to the police

Published 1076 days ago

Legal code overhaul needs more debate

A major potential improvement in the new bills is adding community service as a possible punishment for petty offences.

Published 1079 days ago

New draft codes need wider consultations

Changes to police custody (PC) are retrogressive

Published 1082 days ago

‘Judges be vigilant’: Kapil Sibal sounds alarm on bills to replace criminal laws

Rajya Sabha member Kapil Sibal.

Published 1085 days ago

ED can interrogate me in prison, Balaji tells SC

V Senthil Balaji told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that nothing prevented the ED from interrogating him in the hospital during his 15-day remand beginning June 14 while he was hospitalised for bypass surgery. (PTI)

Updated 1097 days ago

Nuh: Death toll touches 5 in communal violence aftermath; over 50 injured

There was heavy police deployment in the area. (HT Photo)

Updated 1097 days ago

Punjab CM Mann writes to Shah for President nod to sacrilege Bills

As the Centre termed Punjab’s amendments to the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to give life imprisonment to sacrilege accused as “harsher punishment”, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann has again written to Union home minister Amit Shah for getting the President’s assent on the two Bills that have been pending since 2018. (PTI File Photo)

Updated 1163 days ago

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