Court News

"The girls are morally and socially bound not to indulge in sexual intercourse before a proper marriage and if they do so, it would be to their peril and they cannot be heard to cry later on that it was rape" said an additional sessions judge in Delhi. The statement came in the verdict on a rape case.

Going against honour-killing, the Punjab and Haryana high court said -Desiring to marry the person a girl loves is not an offence even if she is below 18. The decision came after the court got flooded with petitions from couples, including minors, seeking police protection, as they were under threat from parents and relatives.

In an unusual judgement, a Lok Adalat judge in Madhya Pradesh ordered a man to spend every alternate fortnight with his wife and his woman partner, following a mutual agreement between them. The man's wife had filed a complaint with the Lok Adalat, alleging that her husband spent most of the time with his other partner.

Belgium's biggest ever trial, involving 46 defendants accused of conspiring to overthrow Western democracies through the means of terrorist acts, began Monday in the northern city of Antwerp. According to the prosecutor, since 2010, the group has been attempting to aggressively recruit young Muslim men to its cause, thereby radicalizing them against Western democracies.

The Supreme court has held that trial courts cannot discredit the testimony of the relative of a murder victim, merely on the presumption that the witness will be naturally prejudiced against the killer. “When the statement of witnesses who are relatives is trustworthy there would hardly be any reason for the court to reject such evidence,” the court observed.

The Madras High Court has asked for the removal of reservation for children of freedom fighters in MBBS. The court added that if no child of a freedom fighter eligible for admission was available in the past 15 years, they are not going to be available hereafter. Every year, three seats in MBBS/BDS are reserved for freedom fighters' children.

A Delhi court has sentenced life imprisonment to seven people, holding them guilty of thieving three cows, one calf, and one buffalo for slaughtering last year. The court observed that their acts have the effect of hurting religious sentiments of a section of society, promoting enmity between different religious groups, and disturbing public tranquillity.

In a significant decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that a candidate's income should not be combined with the parents' income for determining "creamy layer", to exclude a backward class person from the benefits of reservation. With this ruling, the apex court set aside the Punjab and Haryana High Court decision which considered a candidate's income to determine "creamy layer".

A notice was issued to makers of the film ‘Haider’ and Censor Board of Film Certification (CBFC) by the Allahbad HC on Wednesday. The notice was issued on a PIL filed by Hindu Front for Justice, a group of local lawyers, seeking direction to restrain exhibiting of the movie on the grounds that it was against national interest.

The Supreme Court Thursday summoned the chief secretaries of Bihar and Chhattisgarh, for filing factually incorrect status reports on the number of missing children traced by the states. This comes after a PIL was filed by the 'Bachpan Bachao Andolan', run by Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi. CJI HL Dattu expressed concern over the growing number of incidents of missing children.