Medical insanity no ground for acquittal: Parl panel

A parliamentary panel has observed that mere medical insanity cannot be a ground for the acquittal of an accused and legal insanity is required to be proved for claiming a valid defence. IMAGE:......

Economic offenders not to be handcuffed: Parliamentary panel

People taken into custody for economic offences should not be handcuffed and clubbed with those arrested for heinous crimes such as rape and murder, a parliamentary committee has recommended.......

Law panel chief for making lynching a separate crime in new criminal law

The Law Commission on Friday told a parliamentary panel that there was a need to define as to what amounts to "lynching" in the proposed Bharat Nyay Sanhita, sources said. IMAGE: A participant......

Congress props up ex-BSP leaders ahead of UP local bodies polls

While Brijlal Khabri, former BSP MP from Jalaun, is UP Congress Committee chairman, former UP cabinet minister and Mayawati’s once close confidant Naseemuddin Siddiqui heads the party’s......