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Washington, Jan 8 (AP)  Lani Guinier, a civil rights lawyer and scholar whose nomination by President Bill Clinton to head the Justice Department’s civil rights division was pulled after conservatives criticized her views on correcting racial discrimination, has died. She was 71. Guinier died Friday, Harvard Law School Dean John F. Manning said in a […]

Cuttack, Jan 10 Orissa High Court Monday affirmed a lower court judgment in which Dara Singh alias Rabindra Kumar Pal was convicted for the murder of a garment shop owner Sk Rehman at Padiabeda weekly market in Mayurbhanj district on August 26, 1999. A division bench of Chief Justice S Muralidhar and Justice BP Routray […]

Madurai (TN), Jan 8  The Madras High Court has ruled that an evangelist who made offending remarks against Hindus cannot claim immunity after outraging religious beliefs of others and stated he cannot be equated as a neutral commentator or a stand-up comedian like Munawar Faruqui. Partly quashing an FIR filed against priest P George Ponniah […]

New Delhi, Jan 8  A fire accident cannot be termed as an ‘act of God’ if it did not happen due to the operation of any external natural forces like storm, floods, lightning or earthquake, the Supreme Court has said. A three-judge bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar made the observation while setting aside […]

Chennai, Jan 4 (BPNS) The ruling DMK has moved Madras High Court challenging the Dam safety Act 2021 stating that the Act would completely reduce the power of the states over the control of dams located within their territory. The petition was moved in the Madras High Court by the DMK, Myladuthurai Member of Parliament, […]

Chennai, Dec 29 (BPNS) The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday sought a status report from the Central government on the 68 fishermen from Tamil Nadu who are under judicial custody in Sri Lanka for allegedly violating the International waters. A division bench of Justices C.V. Karthikeyan and Justice S. Srimathy sought […]

Chennai, Nov 25 (BPNS) The Tiruppur district Mahila court sentenced a 29-year-old man for double life imprisonment for raping and marrying a minor girl against her wish. The incident occurred in 2016 when the man was 24 years old and the minor girl 14. The man, a relative of the girl raped her while she […]

Chennai, Nov 17 ( BPNS ) The lawyer’s wing of the Tamil Nadu BJP wants stringent action against a fringe group of lawyers who were opposing the transfer of Chief Justice of Madras High Court to the Meghalaya high court. Advocate R.C. Paul Kanagaraj, President of the Tamil Nadu BJP lawyers wing in a memorandum […]

Chennai, Nov 17 (BPNS) Madras High Court Chief Justice, Sanjib Banerjee has left for Meghalaya on Wednesday to assume office as the Chief Justice of that state. The central government had issued a notification on November 15th transferring the Chief Justice of Madras High Court as Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court. The Supreme Court collegium […]