Centre lists four Jammu and Kashmir Bills, and three criminal law Bills for passage in the winter session of Parliament

Centre lists four Jammu and Kashmir Bills, and three criminal law Bills for passage in the winter session of Parliament

Parliamentarians in the Lok Sabha. File. | Photo Credit: PTI The Union government has listed the four Bills related to Jammu & Kashmir, including one pertaining to the reservation of Assembly seats for “Kashmiri migrants”, to be taken up for discussion in the winter session of Parliament commencing on December 4. The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation … Read more

DGP directs Commissioners, Superintendents of Police to expedite proposals for filing appeals against acquittals in criminal cases

DGP directs Commissioners, Superintendents of Police to expedite proposals for filing appeals against acquittals in criminal cases

CHENNAI: 28/07/2022: FOR CITY: TAMIL NADU : A view of the Madras High Court Building in Chennai. PICHUMANI K / THE HINDU | Photo Credit: PICHUMANI K Tamil Nadu Director General of Police and Head of Police Force Shankar Jiwal has issued a circular instructing all Commissioners and Superintendents of Police across the State to … Read more

Uttar Pradesh STF to soon have AI-based Criminal Data System

Uttar Pradesh STF to soon have AI-based Criminal Data System

The Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Criminal Data Creation and Retrieval System will help law enforcement agencies in the State to identify criminals by providing tools for matching face and voice. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Uttar Pradesh police department’s Special Task Force (STF) has initiated the process of acquiring the Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Criminal Data … Read more

SC notice to U.P. govt on plea of disqualified MLA Abdullah Azam Khan in criminal case

SC notice to U.P. govt on plea of disqualified MLA Abdullah Azam Khan in criminal case

Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan and his son MLA Abdullah Azam at MP-MLA Special Court, Moradabad, on February 13, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI The Supreme Court on May 1 sought the stand of the Uttar Pradesh government on a plea by Mohammad Abdullah Azam Khan, son of Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, against the … Read more

PIL seeks criminal action against Shinde, Fadnavis in Kharghar sunstroke tragedy

PIL seeks criminal action against Shinde, Fadnavis in Kharghar sunstroke tragedy

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde spoke to the media regarding the deaths and hospitalisation of people after suffering from heatstroke during the Maharashtra Bhushan Award ceremony in Navi Mumbai’s Kharghar, on April 17, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Bombay High Court seeking criminal action against … Read more

Criminal defamation case | Rahul Gandhi to move appeal in Surat Session Court for a stay on conviction

Criminal defamation case | Rahul Gandhi to move appeal in Surat Session Court for a stay on conviction

File photo of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. | Photo Credit: Reuters Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s legal team will be moving an appeal in Surat’s Session Court on April 3, 2023 to stay his conviction in a defamation case. Mr Gandhi is likely to present in court along with senior leaders like K C Venugopal but … Read more

Tripura Assembly Election: 45 candidates crorepatis, 41 have criminal cases

Tripura Assembly Election: 45 candidates crorepatis, 41 have criminal cases

Chief Minister Manik Saha is the second richest candidate with ₹13.90 crore assets | Photo Credit: PTI Of the total 259 candidates contesting the February 16 Tripura Assembly election, 45 are crorepatis, according to a report. The ruling BJP has 17 crorepati candidates followed by Tipra Motha with nine and CPI(M) seven, the report by … Read more

Withdraw prosecution in criminal case, Gaddar urges President

Withdraw prosecution in criminal case, Gaddar urges President

Revolutionary Balladeer Gaddar has appealed to President Droupadi Murmu to withdraw the prosecution against him in a case which dates back to 2005 | File photo | Photo Credit: K.R. Deepak Gummadi Vittal Rao alias Revolutionary Balladeer Gaddar has appealed to President Droupadi Murmu to withdraw the prosecution against him in a case which dates … Read more

Gujarat elections | 330 of 1,621 candidates have criminal records; AAP tops with 61, says ADR report

Gujarat elections | 330 of 1,621 candidates have criminal records; AAP tops with 61, says ADR report

Cutouts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal at a Election material related store in Surat, Gujarat on November 19. | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji As many as 330 of 1,621 candidates, or around 20%, contesting the next month’s Gujarat Assembly elections have criminal cases registered against them, … Read more