Gandhi said her ministry has proposed that child sexual abuse victims be allowed to register complaints until they are 30.
The trial of controversial self-styled godman Asaram Bapu and four other accused in the case of alleged sexual assault on a minor will begin at a court in Jopdhpur on December 4.
The PMLA court in Mumbai has sought their appearance on September 25 (Nirav Modi) and 26 (Mehul Choksi) respectively under the fugitive economic offender law.
The Bombay high court on Thursday said it would start hearing from December 5 all the petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the beef ban legislation in Maharashtra.
A division bench of the Bombay High Court on Monday declined to hear a bunch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the beef ban legislation in Maharashtra after one of the judges recused himself from hearing them.
In January 2016, Dhoni was issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for being shown as Lord Vishnu on the cover of Business Today magazine in April 2013.
As pressure mounted on him to quit as the chief of West Bengal Human Rights Commission over a sexual assault allegation, former Supreme Court judge Ashok Kumar Ganguly on Tuesday said he was "undecided" on his future course of action.
A day after the Supreme Court ruled that it was up to the prime minister to not induct those with criminal record into his Cabinet, Rediff.com examines how serious are the charges against some of Narendra Modi's ministers.
The police has named Tharoor as the only accused while also alleging that he had subjected his wife to cruelty.
The Enforcement Directorate in October last year had filed the complaint against Raju and 212 others, including 166 companies, before the XXI Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court cum Special Sessions Judge here for allegedly laundering funds under a 'corporate veil' to perpetrate the accounting scam that rocked the business world in 2009.
The sessions court will continue hearing the revision application on Tuesday, special public prosecutor Pradip Gharat said. Goswami's lawyer Parkar said after the revision plea is heard, the court will take up the bail plea for hearing.
'The government know very well how to pass a bill in the Rajya Sabha with consensus.' 'They got consensus from Opposition parties on the 10 percent reservation for economically weaker sections.' 'In instant triple talaq, the BJP wanted to take sole credit.' 'They wanted to take credit and see that other parties suffer (political) loss.' 'Therefore, the bill got stuck.'
Nearly 4,000 resident doctors in Maharashtra on Thursday went on an indefinite strike demanding suspension of three policemen from Solapur who allegedly attacked their colleague there on December 31.
Delhi high court restrained the media from revealing the identity of the victim by any means.
'Why didn't the CBI ask for the evidence earlier?' 'Why has it suddenly becoming imminent.'
Women activists urged the government to withdraw the Bill from consideration in the Rajya Sabha, and review the fundamental flaws pending broad-based community consultations.
The court fixed the matter for July 28 for order on cognisance.
Setting aside the Delhi high court's September 30 verdict denying bail to Chidambaram, the apex court said he is neither a "flight risk" nor there is a possibility of "his abscondence from the trial". Chidambaram had moved the apex court challenging the high court verdict.
In an embarrassment to the Uttar Pradesh police, a court on Thursday refused to take cognisance of the chargesheet against Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah in connection with the alleged hate speech made by him and returned it to the police.
Former coal secretary and four others, including two serving government officials, were on Friday granted bail by a special court in connection with a coal blocks allocation scam case.
Shivakumar's lawyers Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Dayan Krishnan opposed the ED's plea for custodial interrogation saying that he had joined the probe and never absconded.
From police refusing to name the accused when the complaint was first filed to seeing her father tortured and killed, from her uncle being ensnared in an unrelated case to suffering an accident, which had clear marks of a conspiracy, the going was tough for her.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has booked senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader from Rajasthan Gulab Chand Kataria and three others for murder charges in Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter killing case.
Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Rajasthan has reported the highest number of cases of atrocities against SCs and STs during 2013-15, followed by poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar, a new government report said, even as the Centre on Monday flagged the issue of poor conviction rates in such cases.
'Are you an eye witness? There is some sanctity attached to the investigation'
Following is the chronology of events in the keenly watched trial of the December 16 gang rape and murder case of a 23-year-old girl in which a Delhi court on Friday awarded death penalty to the four convicts:
The three doctors said in their bail plea they were not even aware of the victim's caste.
The court has now fixed the matter for scrutiny of documents on September 29.
Rajya Sabha also rejected an opposition sponsored motions to send the bill to a select committee of the House and for making triple talaq a civil offence with 100 votes against it as compared to 84 in favour.
The HC sought responses of the CBI and the victim on Sengar's appeal challenging his conviction and imprisonment till remainder of his natural life. The court said Sengar can't be released as he's undertrial in other cases too.
The development comes less than a month after another AAP MLA Jitender Singh Tomar was arrested and had to resign as law minister over charge of having fake degrees.
The NHRC has issued notices to the Chairman, Railway Board and DGP, Madhya Pradesh over reports of "inaction" by RPF and GRP over beating of a youth for hours in a train.
The government also took note of pending cases in various high courts and said that 1.66 lakh cases relating to sexual assaults were pending across the country at several stages.
Delhi high court on refused to stay two notifications of the Centre which had taken away the power of the city government's Anti-Corruption Branch to prosecute officials of Union government, saying a vacation court cannot grant the relief sought by a fresh PIL.
Officials said the agency has issued fresh summons to Singh as it wants to record his statement under the PMLA.
The apex human rights body in the country had taken cognisance of the encounter killings, saying it was a matter of concern and needed to be investigated carefully.
A police official said the five arrested are suspected to have Maoist links and had allegedly funded the Elgar Parishad conclave.
A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act court on Wednesday issued a non-bailable warrant against Pankaj Bhujbal.
Activist Yogendra Yadav, who was detained on Monday night from a farmer protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, was dragged by police officers as he tried to interact with the media.
Former President Pratibha Patil's brother was named by a sessions court as an accused in the 2005 murder of a local Congress leader in Jalgaon, Maharashtra.
