The Supreme Court on Monday said parliament may think of statutory provisions providing for harsher punishment for those accused of rape and abuse of minor children. A bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice NV Ramana said this while hearing a petition filed by Supreme Court Women Lawyers Associati...

High drama was witnessed in Court No 3 on Monday, September 14 when Justices V Gopala Gowda and Adarsh Kumar Goel assembled to hear Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association vs Manohar Lal Sharma and Ors, which came up at 2.15 pm.

“The Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association took umbrage at the comments of advocates ML Sharma and AP Singh in the documentary India’s Daughter and sought a ban on their entry into the apex court premises” by filing a petition before the court, reported The Times of India and others. The petition ...