The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held that Section 197 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 acts as a shield ...

The Indian Penal Code, 1860, Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Representation Of People Act, 1950, Census Act 1948 and Prevention Of Corruption Act, 1988, are among the ...

NEW DELHI: It may have taken more than two decades for Thomas Macaulay to draft the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC). However, the recently concluded winter session of ...

This bill amends the Criminal Code of Procedure, 1973, and also bars the media from naming the public servant until the Rajasthan government allows the case to be investigated Jaipur: Despite ...

Recently, public interest litigation (PIL), Yash Giri v. Union of India, was filed in the Supreme Court of India to formulate a law to compensate the victims of wrongful incarceration. Instances of ...

The Union home minister has said he wants to unshackle India from its colonial legacy by proposing to repeal three long-standing laws and to substitute them with three bills that were tabled in ...