Economic offenders not to be handcuffed: Parliamentary panel

People taken into custody for economic offences should not be handcuffed and clubbed with those arrested for heinous crimes such as rape and murder, a parliamentary committee has recommended.......

Death for crimes against women, kids in proposed Maha law

Maharashtra Cabinet has approved draft bills for strengthening the law on prevention of atrocities against women, children while "Shakti Act" which envisages death sentence for rape, acid attack......

'Organised identity-based lynching is happening in urban India'

'Ordinary laws are insufficient to deal with the problem as they offer no deterrent' 'This draft will send a perfect message among the people that though there are solutions, lawmakers refuse them'......

New tough anti-rape law comes into force

President Pranab Mukherjee has given his assent to the anti-rape bill which provides for life term and even death sentence for rape convicts besides stringent punishment for offences like acid......