Night vision cameras and high mast lights, men patrolling the gates day and night. No, it’s not the latest edition of Hunger Games, but could be the future of Tis Hazari court complex soon enough.

A Mumbai court yesterday sentenced the convict in lawyer Pallavi Purakayastha’s murder to life imprisonment, reported the ANI . The 25-year-old in house counsel and ILS Pune grad was stabbed in the throat in her Mumbai flat in August 2012 by her apartment complex’ watchman. The convict – 22-year-old...

The Tiruchi Bar Association called a strike yesterday over the murder of advocate S Mathiazhagan, demanding that the case be handed to the Crime Branch CID or the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after little progress in the investigations for a month, presenting a memorandum to the city’s poli...

The police had objected to bail for Munnetra Kazhagam because of his history of rowdiness and political affiliation; Justice RS Ramanathan said the risks of jumping bail were thin because he was a politician [The Hindu]

The Ghaziabad session court judgment has been published in the Aarushi Talwar murder case, after the handed down life sentences to both her parents today [ IBN Live / WSJ / BBC ]. The CBI special court’s additional sessions judge held: Now is the time to say omega in this case. To perorate, it is pr...

A CBI court today convicted dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar for the year 2008 murder of their 14-year-old daughter Aarushi Talwar and domestic help Hemraj Banjade, reported the Hindustan Times . The couple will be sentenced tomorrow for murder (section 302 IPC), destruction of evidence (s 201...

After Dr Amardeep Kainth’s death this year, the management of Dr Kainth & Associates, the firm he had founded in 1995, has passed to former partner Anupama Venugopal.

Dr Amardeep Kainth, the well-known Bangalore corporate lawyer and founder of Dr Kainth & Associates, was found murdered at home today, according to a one-paragraph Times of India report.

OPEN Magazine investigates the alleged cover up in the tragic early-August death of RMLNLU Lucknow student Satnam Singh Mann, where six have been arrested with two, including a policeman, charged with murder. OPEN excerpts: “This is nothing but an effort to save the real culprits of the murder of Sa...

25 year-old in-house lawyer and ILS Pune grad Pallavi Purkayastha found murdered in her Mumbai flat, stabbed and with her throat slit. Her body was discovered by her live-in boyfriend, an associate at JSA [ PTI ] Litigation start-up: Former Luthra & Luthra Delhi indirect tax associate and NLU J...

Following the murder of Mumbai investigative journalist Jyotirmoy Dey the Bombay High Court has allowed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by lawyer VP Patil demanding a CBI inquiry into the incident as a bill has been proposed granting special legal protection to journalists.

The Supreme Court reduced the Delhi High Court’s death sentence handed down to law student Priyadarshini Mattoo’s rape and murder convict Santosh Kumar to life imprisonment in today’s ruling in the 14-year old trial.

Two staff were murdered in FoxMandal Little’s Bangalore office early on Sunday morning. The firm has closed its office there for the day as a mark of respect.