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Oppn MPs seek views of jurists, experts on bills to replace criminal laws
Congress and Trinamool Congress are expected to propose the names of a number of jurists and experts who should be called to depose before for the panel.

Updated on Sep 13, 2023 12:07 AM IST
Government stands firm on Hindi names for bills to overhaul criminal laws
During a meeting of the parliamentary panel on home affairs, Union home secretary Ajay Bhalla took the MPs through various clauses of the three bills

Updated on Aug 26, 2023 04:29 AM IST
Opposition MPs seek reason to bring three new bills to replace criminal laws
DMK leader Dayanidhi Maran has shot off a letter to the panel chairman Brij Lal objecting to the “Hindi titles” of the bills

Updated on Aug 25, 2023 04:27 AM IST
Saubhadra Chatterji, New Delhi
Parliament panel to examine bill seeking to change criminal justice system
The three bills seek an overhaul of the existing laws, described as a colonial legacy by Amit Shah in Lok Sabha when he introduced them in the last session.

Published on Aug 24, 2023 12:36 PM IST
PTI | | Posted by Nisha Anand
New draft codes need wider consultations
The new bills give the impression that instead of genuine reform, it was an exercise of leaving one’s stamp just for the sake of doing so

Published on Aug 16, 2023 10:11 PM IST
Suleman Usman Bakery case trial resumes after four months
Seven policemen are facing charges for shooting to death eight unarmed inmates of the bakery and the adjacent madarsa during a raid led by former city police commissioner R D Tyagi when the December 1992-January 1993 riots were on. The trial has been delayed due to objections over the use of post-mortem reports.

Updated on Apr 13, 2023 01:08 AM IST
, Mumbai
Jyoti PunwaniConfessions made to officers in drugs cases not admissible, says SC
Although the central government argued that officers under the NDPS Act cannot be called police officers, the bench concluded that any officer who is invested with the power of investigation and who can prepare an investigation report essentially is a police officer.

Updated on Oct 30, 2020 01:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
Abraham Thomas
Man linked to Rajasthan horse-trading tapes refuses to give voice sample
Sanjay Jain’s counsel said his client does not trust the agency which is investigating the case.

Updated on Jul 31, 2020 11:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur |
Jaykishan Sharma | Edited by Ashutosh Tripathi
Custodial torture and violence is wrong. It is time for a stronger law
Jayaraj and Bennicks died not just due to abuse, but also because of the apathy of the magistrate and doctors

Updated on Jul 13, 2020 05:08 AM IST
Law students to learn Indian art of advocacy
Ancient Indian logic takes within its sweep the Baudhic and Jain knowledge systems that prescribe ways to arrive at the truth.

Published on Nov 25, 2019 01:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Bhadra Sinha
Nothing incriminating in docus used against Sudha Bharadwaj, says her lawyer
Choudhary, while replying to queries posed by a bench of justice Sarang Kotwal regarding admissibility of letters recovered from the computers of co-accused Surendra Gadling and Rona Wilson, submitted that as per the Evidence Act, the documents could suffice to implicate the two if the said documents were written by them and recovered from their possession, but not Bharadwaj.

Updated on Sep 07, 2019 02:23 AM IST
Mumbai | , Mumbai
K A Y DodhiyaOpinion | 90 years later, India must send Simon back
More than 250 British laws, defining the basic framework of Constitution, continue to govern us. They must go

Updated on Jul 19, 2019 09:44 PM IST
M J Akbar cross-examined in defamation case
He filed the suit after Ramani last year accused Akbar of sexual misconduct in 1993 when he was the editor and proprietor of the Asian Age, and she was applying for a job at the paper.

Published on May 20, 2019 11:58 PM IST
New Delhi | HT Correspondent
SC to decide today if ‘privileged’ Rafale papers can be used as evidence
The Centre had claimed privilege over documents pertaining to the Rafale fighter jet deal with France and said those documents cannot be considered in evidence as per Section 123 of the Indian Evidence Act.

Updated on Apr 10, 2019 12:04 AM IST
New Delhi |
Press Trust of India
Teen boy convicted of rape on 13-year-old victim’s testimony in Ludhiana
She deposed before the Juvenile Justice Board that she was at her house with her brother, aged about one year, when the boy, his neighbour, entered her house saying he wanted to charge his phone.

Updated on Mar 17, 2019 10:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ludhiana |
AneeshaSareen Kumar
Aseemanand’s confession in blast case to police not voluntary: NIA court
The NIA court also maintained that a person cannot be considered “communal or anti-social” only because of links to the RSS, which is not a banned organisation

Updated on Apr 24, 2018 10:47 AM IST
Press Trust of India, Hyderabad |
Press Trust of India
President Kovind signs ordinance seeking death penalty for rape of children
The ordinance stipulates stringent punishment for perpetrators of rape, particularly of girls below 16 and 12 years. Death sentence has been provided for rapists of girls under 12 years.

Updated on Apr 22, 2018 01:31 PM IST
Press Trust of India, New Delhi |
Press Trust of India