New Delhi, The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought the stand of the Centre and Delhi Police on a petition challenging the "disproportionate" collection of personal, biometric information from ...

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Ministry of Home Affairs, National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) and the State of Delhi on a plea challengi ...

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice on a plea seeking to declare the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act, ...

The 2022 law allows police and prison authorities to collect and store various types of personal data, including fingerprints ...

A move by members of the National Legislature to amend the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) Act and provisions of ...

It’s usually taken as a given in the United States that the power to prosecute criminal cases belongs exclusively to the government. Justice Clarence Thomas employed this reasoning in his concurrence ...

Stay of criminal proceedings refers to the issue of not proceeding with a criminal case until a formal judicial order reopens it because the matter is sub-judice or pending in another court. The ...

The High Court quashed a decades-old TDS prosecution after compounding fees and interest were fully paid. It held that revival of trial violated the right to a speedy trial and constituted abuse of ...

Minnesota has zero convictions for female genital mutilation despite hundreds of thousands at risk nationwide and the state's ...

The Trump administration is now citing an appeals court ruling which effectively put Donald Trump himself in criminal jeopardy.

Britain appears to have taken a calculated gamble: law over legacy. The arrest of Andrew Mountbatten, stemming from allegations tied to the Epstein files, represents crisis management at a civilisatio ...

The Criminal Procedure Act makes naming the accused an offence, punishable with a fine or up to three years in jail. The Women’s Legal Centre, representing Peters, argues that it is predominantly ...