DEHRADUN: Quashing rape charges levelled against a man, Justice Sharad Kumar Sharma of the Uttarakhand high court said, “In today’s modern society, offence under IPC Section 376 (rape) is being misused by women as a weapon as soon as some differences arise with their partner to duress upon the other party for many unknown factors.”…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday said it would be better if Sri Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Idgah mosque dispute of Mathura was adjudicated by Allahabad HC which would also decide the preliminary objection on maintainability of the suit. It observed that multiplicity and prolongation of litigation in such cases could create disquiet one way or…

VARANASI: A local court directed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) Friday to conduct a scientific investigation of the Gyanvapi complex, adjacent to the Kashi Vishwanath temple, to determine whether it was constructed over a pre-existing structure of a Hindu temple. But the survey will not cover the “wuzukhana (ablution pond)” area of the complex,…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice and sought response from the Enforcement Directorate on appeals filed by Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji and his wife Megala challenging Madras High Court order upholding his arrest and grant of police custody to the agency in a money laundering case and assured the DMK…

The Wadia Group’s gamble to suspend Go First operations and go in for voluntary insolvency has paid off. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has accepted GoFirst’s resumption plan after ensuring that its audit observations have been complied with. The airline can now do so with 15 aircraft operating 114 daily flights if it…

DEHRADUN : Being penalised by traffic cops would have upset Mohd Faizan on any given day. However, he only had gratitude towards the cop who intercepted him on Wednesday. Faizan’s bike was seized by a cop due to incomplete documents, which prevented him from reaching the Namami Gange project sewage treatment plant (STP) at Pipalkoti…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday fixed the hearing on Rahul Gandhi’s plea for stay of his conviction in the defamation case over ‘Modi surname’ remark on August 4.A bench of Justices BR Gavai and PK Mishra issued notices to complainant and BJP MLA Purnesh Modi, who had filed a criminal defamation case in…

RAIPUR: Setting aside the judgment and decree passed by the trial court in favour of a husband in a divorce case, the Chhattisgarh high court has stated that the wife should not be treated as hired chattel or bonded labour to stay under the conditions imposed by the husband.With this observation, the division bench of…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday said it will appoint ad hoc chairperson of Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) after the Delhi LG and the chief minister informed the court through their counsels that they had failed to reach a consensus on the issue.“Since the issue will require a detailed hearing, pending adjudication we…

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday strongly condemned the Manipur incident of two women being paraded naked and assured that the guilty will not be spared. “I want to assure the countrymen that no guilty will be spared. What has happened to these daughters of Manipur can never be forgiven,” PM Modi said…