Pattni judge suspended

Shashi Tharoor. |PTI File photo In a setback to Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ernakulam on Monday dismissed the petition filed by Joy Kaitharath, general secretary, State Human Rights Protection Centre seeking ...

Aizawl: The lone Rajya Sabha member from Mizoram Lalhming Liana on Saturday reiterated the demand of his Mizo National Front (MNF) party that a judicial inquiry and not a magisterial inquiry should be constituted to probe the collapse of a ...

The High Court on Monday pulled up National Human Rights Commission chairman Md Nizamur Rahman for his failure to provide to it names of eminent citizens it sought for constituting an independent committee for probing into the fire at Tazreen ...

The BJP continues to torpedo the UPA government's appointments in the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) with attempts being made to instal former Supreme Court judge Justice Cyriac Joseph as the judicial member. Earlier, the principle opposition party ...

A NGO has complained to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against the custodial death of Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay demanding a judicial inquiry in the death and Rs 25 lakh as compensation for the kin.

The United States-sponsored draft resolution before the ongoing session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission urges the Sri Lankan government to conduct an ‘independent and credible’ investigation into allegations of human rights violations. The draft resolution -- a copy of which has been obtained by PTI -- has not ceded to demands of human rights bodies for an independent international investigation. Welcoming the announcement by the Lankan government to hold elections to ...

On April 26, 2013, Supreme Court referred a highly sensitive issue to the law commission. India's highest judicial forum is miffed by the fact that the executive wing of Indian democracy is bulldozing their well-thought out judgments awarding death sentences to accused guilty of serious crimes including rapes and murders of children. The SC wants the law commission to examine the power of the President and the governor under Article 72 in granting mercy without offering any reason. Rakesh ...

The Equality and Human Rights Commission will today (Wednesday 15th May) intervene in a judicial review at the High Court involving MA and nine others who fear losing their homes as a result of new housing benefit regulations. Most of the claimants ...

The two-member quasi-judicial commission probing Adarsh scam, will submit its report to the state government early next month as it's extension expires on March 31. The report, in all likelihood, will be tabled in the state legislature. The commission was set ...