LUCKNOW: Forty-three years after Moradabad witnessed one of the bloodiest communal clashes in UP after Partition, the report of the Justice Mathura Prasad Saxena judicial commission constituted to look into the August 13, 1980 flare-up was tabled in the assembly Tuesday. The report concludes that the communal frenzy that officially claimed 83 lives was the…

KOCHI: Any non-consensual sex-selective surgery on a minor is tantamount to violating the child’s dignity and privacy, the Kerala high court said while dismissing a plea by the parents of a seven-year-old with ambiguous genitalia to allow a genital reconstructive procedure so that they could raise their child as a female. “Granting such permission may…

ISLAMABAD: Jailed former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said he’s been kept in a jail cell meant for terrorists and is seeking a court order to be moved to upgraded facilities after his conviction in a corruption case. In a petition filed late on Monday to the Islamabad high court, Khan’s legal team complained about…

BENGALURU: A woman frequently insulting her husband calling him dark-skinned, leaving him for the same reason and levelling false accusations of an illicit relationship against him as a cover-up will amount to cruelty, the Karnataka HC observed in a recent judgement. The couple got married on November 15, 2007. They have a daughter. Their divorce…

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Imran Khan’s lawyer claimed on Monday that the PTI chief has been kept in distressing conditions and provided “C-class” prison facilities at Attock jail, in Pakistan Punjab. Khan was pronounced guilty and sentenced to three years in prison by an Islamabad-based trial court on August 5 in a graft case related…

CHANDIGARH: Bulldozers were halted in Nuh on Monday on what would have been the fifth day of demolition of properties with alleged links to rioters after the Punjab and Haryana high court took suo motu cognisance of newspaper reports and stepped in. A division bench of justices G S Sandhawalia and Harpreet Kaur Jeewan observed…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday said it will constitute a team of three former high court judges – led by former J&K chief justice Gita Mittal – to oversee relief, rehabilitation and rebuilding measures in strife-torn Manipur. Supervision of other criminal cases, excluding the 12 heinous cases referred to CBI, by 42 state…

CHANDIGARH: Bulldozers were halted in Nuh on Monday on what would have been the fifth day of demolition of properties with alleged links to rioters after the Punjab and Haryana high court took suo motu cognisance of newspaper reports and stepped in. A division bench of justices G S Sandhawalia and Harpreet Kaur Jeewan observed…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday appointed ex-Maharashtra DGP Dattatrey Padsalgikar to oversee police investigations into cases related to ethnic violence in Manipur. The top court said its effort is to restore sense of confidence and faith in rule of law. It proposed to draft in five or six deputy SP rank officers from…

GANGTOK: Violence erupted in Sikkim’s Namchi town on Monday when a rally demanding speedy justice in the mysterious death of a 21-year-old youth leader turned restive and protesters threw stones and bricks, injuring some police personnel. Police said tear gas shells were burst by the force to control the situation and several persons were arrested…