After being granted a special permission from a Pakistan court, Dalbir Kaur, sister of convict Sarbajit Singh, will be meeting him at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Rai Jail on Thursday. He has been convicted for the 1990 serial bomb blasts in Lahore and Karachi.
A British member of parliament has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman in Central London on Thursday.
In an astonishing set of events starting last month from the observation of the Supreme Court to punish honour killing with death to it actually being implemented by the Uttar Pradesh court yesterday, left every one moved by the boldness shown by the Indian Judicial system.
The police was directed by the local court to register an FIR against the IPS officer Jawahar Singh, who was suspended for allegedly outraging the modesty of a women police officer in 2002. The direction was made to the Maharashtra Director General of police in response to a report of the National Human Rights Commission.
The Special Court hearing the 2G Spectrum case on Friday turned down the bail plea of the former Telecom Secretary, Siddhartha Behura. His counsel submitted that Mr.Behura had no role in deciding the modified first-come first-served policy, cut off dates and dual technology terms and also claimed that Mr.Behura had joined the Telecom services on January 1st, 2008, after the decisions were taken.
The Apex Court of Spain on Friday overturned the convictions of four individuals charged with distributing neo-Nazi propaganda. The four men were convicted and sentenced to three and a half years in prison by the court in Barcelona in October 2009 for forming illegal association and propagating genocide. The men were arrested for distributing books and materials that defended holocaust. The Apex Court in its judgment opined that propagating Nazi ideology is not a crime unless it is used to incite violence or to create hostile climate in the society.
In Law firms in transition survey 2011 it has find out that confidence is High among US law firm leaders in all size of firms. Two Third of the most firms increased gross revenue in 2010 and nearly 75 percent grew revenues per lawyer and profits per equity partner. Overhead reduction and equity partner shrinkage remain important contributors to profitability.
The global commission on Drug policy released a new report in its official website which recommends internationally legalizing cannabis, marijuana and other drugs. The panel in its report also recommends for expanding various treatments available to the drug users and for also making them more available than now, and investing in programs to discourage children from using drugs, rather than enforcing harsh punishments against drug users. The report also asks each country to develop its own unique, human rights-based approaches for regulation of drugs and violations of drug law. The report fired up controversy by mentioning that UN single convention on narcotic drugs 1961 and US war on drugs campaign had failed to achieve its objectives. Panel includes elite members like former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Colombian President Cesar Gaviria, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, Richard Branson and former US Secretary of State George Shultz.