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The Tribune
March 31, 2018
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan on Friday said there are no human rights for anti-social elements, justifying the police parading criminals in public. While speaking at an event organised for creating awareness about women's safety and security, Chauhan said, his government hasÃâà...
Inc.com
March 31, 2018
The five passengers say they called the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and were told that they were in the right, and as U.S. citizens they shouldn't be sent to India. However, they were also warned that they did not want to risk becoming entangled in the Russian criminal system or going through the officialÃâà...
Times of India
March 31, 2018
GUWAHATI: The Gauhati high court on Thursday resolved to approve the proposal for setting up exclusive fast track courts for day-to-day trials of cases related to rape and murder of women and children in Assam. The high court's decision comes three days after a letter by chief minister SarbanandaÃâà...
BBC News
March 31, 2018
"The criminals who did this won't be spared. I am sure police will catch these people soon. Let me assure that we will further improve the system and make it foolproof," he told reporters on Thursday. He said he "understood the pain and anguish and frustration" of parents and students following the breach.
Teignmouth Post
March 30, 2018
A criminal who bunked off community service work to go to India has been spared jail after a judge heard he had been doing charity work rather than taking a ... Damon Mayes spent seven weeks in India without telling probation officers who were supervising the 250 hours of unpaid community work he wasÃâà...
Ultra News
March 29, 2018
The government of India has set up a “Committee on Phone Frauds” to deal rising instances of theft of money using phone calls and one time passwords. India has seen a sharp increase in the number of 'phishing calls' made on phones in recent years for several reasons, including new laws that requireÃâà...
Firstpost
March 22, 2018
Such miscarriages of justice run the entire gamut of the criminal justice system in India. Be it the police, investigators, advocates, media, even the judiciary — the weak and powerless find the system stacked against them. Filing an FIR is a struggle; the recent Mohammad Harris Nalapad case in BengaluruÃâà...
The Wire
March 15, 2018
Arrest, interrogate, oppose bail, and incarcerate – this is current state of criminal jurisprudence in India. Who is interested in clinical investigation and conviction? The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), whom the redoubtable former Chief Justice of India R.M. Lodha had once described as a “cagedÃâà...
Times of India
March 15, 2018
In the past systems would have only been available only to technology-savvy cyber criminals. ... What this evolution had revealed was the extent to which other criminal activities, beyond economic crime, were now being supported by these ... In 2016, cyber crime was the fourth largest crime in India.
The Hindu
March 15, 2018
In its statement of objectives and reasons, the government refers to the “several instances of economic offenders fleeing the jurisdiction of Indian courts anticipating the commencement of criminal proceedings or sometimes during the pendency of such proceedings”. Fugitive businesspersons Vijay MallyaÃâà...
Livemint
March 15, 2018
According to an office memorandum from the ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) reviewed by Mint, these actions include filing of criminal case under 420 and related sections of the Indian Penal Code, blacklisting of the developer for 10 years, forfeiting of bank guarantee and disciplinary caseÃâà...
Times of India
March 15, 2018
MANILA : The Philippines said on Thursday its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC) could be “the beginning of the end” for the institution, as more countries would follow suit and non-members would be discouraged from joining. The announcement to withdraw comes five weeks after aÃâà...
Times of India
March 12, 2018
NEW DELHI: Projecting a grim picture of the extent of criminalisation of politics, the Centre has informed the Supreme Court that 1,765 MPs and MLAs, or 36% of parliamentarians and state assembly members, are facing criminal trial in 3,045 cases. The total strength of lawmakers in Parliament andÃâà...
The New Indian Express
March 8, 2018
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:“Think 200 times before you post anything. The scope of danger online doesn't have any limitations. Hundred percent no deletion, no authority, and no anonymity online, whatever happens,” Dhanya Menon, noted cybercrime investigator, emphasises the points she wishedÃâà...
The Nation
March 8, 2018
Speaking at the launch of a report “Caught in the Web: Treatment of Pakistanis caught in the criminal justice system of Saudi Arabia” by the Justice Project of Pakistan here, he said a state-like Pakistan , which itself had “no respect for a citizen's life” and whose “own record of broken criminal justice systemÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
March 7, 2018
Convicted killers and kidnappers who suffered no qualms of conscience in bending the law are now pounding the books in their prison cells in the land of Mahatma Gandhi. Indeed, the high-security central jail in Ahmedabad in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat, which was onceÃâà...
Times of India (blog)
March 6, 2018
Criminal justice moves at a snail's pace. Trials drag on interminably. Notorious criminals get away scot-free and cock a snook at the justice system. Encounters are not so much the problem as symptoms of the collapsing system of justice and public demand for quick solutions to law and order problems.
BW Businessworld
March 6, 2018
We cannot even think about empowering women if we use the legal loophole to say that marital rape is not a criminal offence. If it is without the consent of a woman, or even a man - it is not a consensual relationship. Which only leaves it being called 'rape'. How can we even talk about empowering women,Ãâà...
Himalayan Times
March 5, 2018
DHANGADI: Province 7 has become a hub for criminal activities due to open border with China and India. The province has been slowly graduating into a transit point for criminals. The province connects to China through Tibet in the north and India through Uttar Pradesh in the south and Uttarakhand in theÃâà...
The Wire
March 5, 2018
They must deprive the police of this convenient tool for punishing alleged criminals without having to uphold accused persons' fundamental rights. They also must force the criminal justice system to directly and appropriately address its weaknesses. It is time for India to catch up with the internationalÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
February 28, 2018
A conscientious policeman has invested his life's savings in a residential school for children belonging to a so-called “criminal tribe” languishing on the margins of society in ... But Sabars living in the interiors of Purulia district are still ostracized and ill-treated by the administration as habitual criminals.
The Wire
February 12, 2018
New Delhi: Around 35% chief ministers in India have criminal cases against them and 81% of them are crorepatis, found an Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) report released on Monday. The ADR and National Election Watch have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of current chief ministers in stateÃâà...
NDTV
December 31, 1999
India To Have New Database On Narcotics Crimes, Criminals: Rajnath Singh. The minister, while delivering his valedictory address at the conclusion of the two-day 'drug law enforcement' conference, said his ministry has sanctioned the required funds to the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). All IndiaÃâà...
Times of India
December 31, 1999
NEW DELHI: India may have the ignominious tag of being one of the world's most polluted countries and is among the bottom on the list of the world's ... What is noteworthy is the fact that the majority of Indians in jail are not convicted criminals, but people awaiting completion of trial -- at 67.2% againstÃâà...
