The minimum punishment in cases of rape of women has been increased from rigorous imprisonment of seven years to 10 years.
Bollywood Actor Salman Khan suffered a second setback on Wednesday when the Bombay high court rejected his bail plea following his conviction and sentencing in the 2002 hit-and-run case earlier in the day.
The Union cabinet also decided to put in place measures for speedy investigation and trial of rape cases.
Haryana government's 'Gau Sewa Ayog' said the step will prevent unscrupulous elements from extorting money and harassing people in the name of cow protection.
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, serving a five-year sentence at the Yerwada central prison in Pune was released early on Thursday morning.
Stringent punishment for rape of a girl under 12 years has been provided with the minimum jail term being 20 years which may go up to life in prison or death sentence. Gangrape of a girl under 12 years of age will invite punishment of jail term for the rest of life or death.
The AA bench, in the order accessed by PTI, also rapped the probe officer of the I-T department in Mumbai for seemingly relying on "some press report/online articles" that Khan acquired the property for his benefit, which it said was "incorrect and impermissible in law."
The woman's father died in judicial custody in April 2018.
Fifty-nine 'karsevaks' were killed in the Godhra train burning incident of February 27, 2002, triggering the worst communal riots in the history of Gujarat.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said her government had to pass a legislation against such crimes as the Centre was unwilling to take the initiative.
'Under this government, tax laws have become more draconian, and the government itself is setting stiff, unrealistic targets for tax officials, who have got more powers to harass us,' points out Debashis Basu.
Filing with inadequate disclosure of assets will be liable for prosecution
They were sentenced for the massacre of 116 persons at Logain village during the Bhagalpur communal riots of 1989.
Breaking from tradition, two women were among those who presided over the largely male-dominated Mahapanchayat.
Harpreet Singh and Satyender Singh, who were held guilty on the charge of gang rape, were awarded the maximum punishment of life imprisonment by Additional Sessions Judge S K Sarvaria.
If any foreign account holder violates Indian laws, tax authorities can enforce repatriation of funds.
Nearly 40 years after the then railway minister Lalit Narayan Mishra was killed in a bomb blast at a function at Samastipur Railway Station in Bihar, a Delhi court on Monday convicted four persons for the charges of murder and criminal conspiracy.
Exactly a year after commencement of hearing, the Delhi high court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on appeals of three persons against a lower court judgement awarding rigorous life imprisonment to them for abducting and killing Nitish Katara in 2002.
'The deeper problem is big government -- a giant monster with a giant appetite, which requires it to put more and more pressure on tax officials to extort. 'And the monster is getting bigger by the day. But then, Mr Modi too knows this,' says Debashis Basu.
The apex court also banned the media from publishing content of orders passed by Justice Karnan on Monday night by which he "sentenced" Chief Justice of India J S Khehar and seven other judges of the Supreme Court to five years rigorous imprisonment.
'How can one bring jihad into a relationship? How can one be restricted on the grounds of religion in marital things?'
Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav will spend the rest of his life behind the bars, with a Delhi court on Tuesday sentencing him for the "remainder of his life" for raping a woman executive in his taxi 11 months ago
Aslam, who was involved in the blast in a roadways bus in Dahi Chowki area in Unnao in 2007, was arrested from West Bengal.
Speaking about his last few days in jail, Dutt said that excitement of freedom and being with family did not allow him to eat nor sleep.
It further said that he cannot live merely on 'past glory' as the trust has been reposed in him for defending the country.
A 72-year-old retired Navy person was among two persons sent to 20 years in jail by a Delhi court for repeatedly gangraping a young woman and threatening her.
A fast track court on Friday sentenced gangster Sandeep Acharya alias Raja and his associate to rigorous life imprisonment for killing judo coach Biranchi Das, who had groomed the world's youngest marathon runner Budhia Singh. Four days after convicting the duo for gunning down the judo coach on April 13, 2008, Fast Track Court judge Vivekananda Das on Friday morning pronounced the life term for Raja and Akshya Behera alias Chagala.
Haldiram Bhujiawala proprietor Prabhu Shankar Agarwal was on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment along with four others by a fast track court in Kolkata for conspiring to kill a tea stall owner whose shop came in the way of a food plaza he was building.
A common factor that binds all these men is greed.
Still haunted by the memories of the tragic end met by their young daughters, parents of Soumya Viswanathan and Jigisha Ghosh now want the perpetrators to suffer for the crime they have committed.
A Delhi court on Saturday convicted filmmaker Mahmood Farooqui of raping a 30-year-old United States researcher last year.
Returns for income earned till FY12-13 can be filed till March 31.
The Gujarat high court on Thursday put a stay on the operation of some sections related to interfaith marriages of the state's new anti-conversion law.
The case relates to the CWG street lighting scam, which had caused a loss of Rs 1.4 crore to the exchequer.
The Pune techie didn't escape strangulation. But she was brave woman. She fought back. She said NO.
The a/c holder will have to mention the date of opening of foreign a/c.
The court held that Salman was driving under the influence of alcohol and also did not have a driving license.
The RSS on Sunday said it has not abandoned its commitment to build a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya and sought speeding up of the case proceedings in the Supreme Court.
Ram Rahim did not talk with anyone and was seen roaming in the cell.
