Estranged Muslim woman can now claim maintenance

MUMBAI: Over 10 years after she was forced to leave her matrimonial house with her two children, a Muslim woman now has a reason to smile. The Bombay high court recently held that she was entitled to maintenance from her husband under section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).
Abdul Majid (44), a labourer from [...]

Register all complaints as FIRs: Central Government

NEW DELHI: With the Ruchika Girhotra case drawing harsh attention to police reluctance in filing an FIR against a fellow officer as well as to their complicity in hounding a young girl to suicide, the Centre has decided to issue a circular to states and union territories calling for mandatory registration of all complaints as [...]

Lawyers are Against CrPc Amendment

See the Letter from Ministry of Home Affairs on CrPC Amendment

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Man wants to sell kidney to pay alimony

CHANDIGARH: Unable to pay maintenance to his wife, a man has approached a court in Punjab to allow him to sell his one of his two kidneys so that he could pay up.
The Ropar resident, who found the sum stipulated by the court way beyond his means, filed an application under section 125 of CrPC [...]

Govt not in hurry to amend CrPC: Moily

MYSORE: There will be no amendment to the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPc), at least for now. Going by the statement of law and justice Veerappa  Moily, the lawyers, who were apprehensive of losing powers to police, can heave a sigh of relief.
Moily told reporters on Sunday that the Centre is not in a hurry to [...]

Man moves court against wife in false dowry case

New Delhi: A woman and a police officer, who allegedly tried to implicate a man in a dowry case, have got trapped in their own net.
A harassed Nishant Saini, 32, has filed a retaliatory complaint in court seeking the arrest of his wife, Anjali Dargan, 30, for “forcefully giving dowry which he never demanded”.
Police officer [...]

Chief justice supports amendments on rules of arrest

New Delhi, April 2 Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan Thursday supported amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), citing that 60 percent of the arrests made in the country were ‘needless’.
‘Independent studies indicate that up to 60 percent of arrests made in our country are needless since the detained persons do not prove to [...]

Implement Cr. P. C. Amendment Act, 2008

The Code of Criminal Procedure Code was amended on or about 26th December, 2008, and subsequently it was assented by the President of India. But till now no Notification is issued by the Government in terms of Section 1(2) of The Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2008. But why Government of India withholding the
If [...]

Cops not ready for liberal CrPC

NEW DELHI: The president’s assent to the controversial CrPC amendment Bill is seen as a setback by certain senior police officials who readily admit they are ill prepared to implement it.
One senior officer went to the extent of saying: “Delhi is not ready to usher in such liberal and revolutionary changes.” However, the top brass [...]

Amendment may make dowry law toothless

NEW DELHI: Buried under vociferous calls by bar associations for court boycott and strikes, a largely unnoticed fallout of the CrPC amendments has begun to bother astute legal observers in the capital. Had lawyers agitating against the amendments highlighted this instead of issuing threats to shut courts, they would have better mobilized public opinion against [...]