-The Hindu Allahabad: Breaking the chains of tradition, more than a hundred widows who live an isolated and tough life in the narrow alleys of Varanasi, on Monday shared a common platform with Hindu seers and scholars, and even dined with them. The seers and sanskrit scholars converged on the holy city to explore ways of addressing the plight of widows. They quoted from the Dharm Shastra and Samaj Shastra, ancient Hindu...
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Life convict can't claim to be released after 14 years: Supreme Court
-PTI The Supreme Court has held that a life convict cannot claim to have a right to be released after spending 14 years behind the bars. A bench of P Sathasivam and J S Khehar said that Life imprisonment means imprisonment for whole life and only the President and the Governors can remit the sentence and allow the convict to be released. The bench, however, said that in those cases the government should...
More »A son gets a mother -Ramendra Singh
-The Indian Express Kanpur: Vijai Kumari got bail in 1994. But it took two decades for her to leave Lucknow women's jail, as son Kanhaiya, born in prison, raised money for a lawyer and a bond Vijai Kumari named her son Kanhaiya, after Lord Krishna. It was on the suggestion of a doctor-like in the mythology about the Hindu god, he was born in jail. For the next two decades, as...
More »HC acquits Pappu Yadav in Ajit Sarkar murder case
-The Hindu Patna: The Patna High Court on Friday acquitted the former Lok Sabha MP, Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, and two others in the 1998 murder case of Communist Party of India (Marxist) MLA Ajit Sarkar. A division bench of Justices V.N. Sinha and Amaresh Kumar Lal overturned the February 2008 order of the lower court, which had convicted Mr. Yadav, Rajan Tiwari and Anil Kumar Yadav of murder and criminal...
More »Bride family, not maid
-PTI A daughter-in-law should be treated as a family member and not as a maid, and she cannot be "thrown out of her matrimonial home at any time", the Supreme Court has said. The court was expressing concern over instances of brides being tortured in the country. The apex court made the observations while sentencing a man to five years imprisonment for torturing his wife and abetting her suicide. The court said a...
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