HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad High Court has held that it is not open to police authorities to deviate or show any laxity in taking appropriate action in case a report alleging cognizable criminal offence ...

Bhopal/Jabalpur: The MP High Court said that in a cognizable offence, a charge-sheet can't be allowed to be withdrawn if the two parties come to a compromise. With this observation, the bench of ...

Advocate general (AG) Subodh Kantak on Monday told the high court of Bombay at Goa that a government notification categorizing the offence of criminal intimidation' as cognizable. PANAJI: Advocate ...

After a video surfaced showing a teacher making classmates slap a Muslim student and making communal remarks in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar, the police have filed a case against the teacher but of ...

The Madhya Pradesh High Court had said where a person is under statutory arrest pursuant to multiple FIRs disclosing ...

THE Allahabad High Court on Friday ruled that theft of electricity was a social crime and it should be treated as a ‘congnizable offence’. HT Image A Division Bench comprising Justice Amitava Lala and ...

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has regretted that the registration of crime reports, in a number of cognizable offences, is delayed merely on the pretext of lack of territorial jurisdiction of a ...

HYDERABAD: Under the Code of Criminal Procedure, no police officer should investigate a non-cognizable case without the order of concerned magistrate. When a police officer approaches the magistrate ...

PESHAWAR, April 25: Civil society representatives have urged Members of the National Assembly to make effective amendments for removing lacunas in the Anti-Women Practices Act 2011. During a ...

The Telangana government has decided to register cases and take up investigation without the permission of court into verbal attack by people using harsh language. For the purpose, the government has ...