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Criminal Law Amendment Bill on Rape Adopted (April 09, 2013) by Wendy Zeldin
On April 2, 2013,
Topic: Criminal law and procedure
Jurisdiction: India
Crime of Sexual Assault Penalized (February 11, 2013) by Wendy Zeldin
On February 3, 2013, the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, signed with immediate effect a Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance, adopted by ...
Topic: Criminal law and procedure
Jurisdiction: India
Talks on an Agreement to Strengthen Nuclear Cooperation (October 16, 2012) by Constance Johnson
On October 12, 2012, in
Topic: Energy
Jurisdiction: India / Sri Lanka
State of Jammu and Kashmir Amends Public Safety Act (April 11, 2012) by Constance Johnson
On April 5, 2012, the legislature of Jammu and Kashmir, a state in northern India, amended the state's 1978 Public Safety ...
Topic: Criminal law and procedure
Jurisdiction: India
Jurisdiction to Try Crimes Committed Abroad (September 13, 2011) by Constance Johnson
As reported in early September 2011, India's Supreme Court has ruled that Indian citizens who commit crimes while abroad can in ...
Topic: Criminal law and procedure
Jurisdiction: India
Supreme Court Takes Bull by the Horns, Castigates Honor Killings, Mandates Official Accountability (April 26, 2011) by Wendy Zeldin
The Supreme Court of India took the opportunity, in a ruling issued on April 19, 2011, against two criminal appeals lodged ...
Topic: Criminal law and procedure
Jurisdiction: India
Reform of Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act Proposed (March 25, 2011) by Constance Johnson
The international human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) has called on India to respect the rights of its people and stop ...
Topic: Criminal law and procedure
Jurisdiction: India
Supreme Court Ruling on Right to Counsel (March 10, 2011) by Wendy Zeldin
On February 24, 2011, India's Supreme Court issued a ruling in a case on appeal reinforcing the principle that criminal defendants ...
Topic: Criminal law and procedure
Jurisdiction: India
Anti-Corruption Measures (February 24, 2011) by Wendy Zeldin
On February 21, 2011, in her address to Parliament opening the budget session, the President of India, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, ...
Topic: Government ethics
Jurisdiction: India
Supreme Court Questions Government over Theft (February 07, 2011) by Krishan Nehra
Describing black money stashed abroad in foreign banks such as in Germany and Lichtenstein by Indians as "pure and simple theft ...
Topic: Government ethics
Jurisdiction: India
New Green Tribunal Established (January 06, 2011) by Wendy Zeldin
In June 2010, India's Parliament adopted the National Green Tribunal Act (NGT Act), which established a new court, the National Green ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: India
Telecom Scandal Brings Parliament to Standstill (December 23, 2010) by Krishan Nehra
The most recent in a series of telecommunications scandals in India has brought the Parliament to a standstill. The scandal involves ...
Topic: Legislative power
Jurisdiction: India
Anti-Terrorism Cooperation Enhanced (December 15, 2010) by Wendy Zeldin
On December 10, 2010, the European Union and India agreed to enhance cooperation against terrorism, in order to deny safe havens ...
Topic: Terrorism
Jurisdiction: European Union / India
Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage Signed (October 29, 2010) by Wendy Zeldin
India signed the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage on October 27, 2010. Dubbed in the Indian press as a ...
Topic: Civil liability
Jurisdiction: India
New Derivatives Exchange Established (October 01, 2010) by Wendy Zeldin
The United Stock Exchange of India, launched on September 21, 2010, is a new exchange for currency derivatives, or "contracts between ...
Topic: Securities markets
Jurisdiction: India
Gunman in Mumbai Attacks Allowed to Appeal (October 01, 2010) by Wendy Zeldin
On September 28, 2010, the Bombay High Court agreed to allow the appeal of Pakistani national Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, the ...
Topic: Terrorism
Jurisdiction: India
Compensation System for Nuclear Accidents (June 17, 2010) by Shameema Rahman
The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010, introduced in India's Parliament on May 7, 2010, aims to establish a compensation ...
Topic: Energy
Jurisdiction: India
First Convictions in Bhopal Case (June 09, 2010) by Constance Johnson
On June 7, 2010, a court in India convicted seven men of "death by negligence" in the 1984 Bhopal chemical disaster. ...
Topic: Criminal law and procedure
Jurisdiction: India
Amendment to Regulate Phone Taps to Be Introduced (May 17, 2010) by Constance Johnson
India's government has announced it will introduce amendments to the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, to regulate and broaden permissible use of ...
Topic: Criminal law and procedure
Jurisdiction: India
Compulsory Use of Drugs, Brain-Map Tests Considered Unconstitutional (May 07, 2010) by Wendy Zeldin
On May 5, 2010, India's Supreme Court ruled that the compulsory use on suspects of narco-analysis, brain-mapping, and polygraph testing is ...
Topic: Constitutional law
Jurisdiction: India
Last updated: April 09, 2013
