An FIR has been lodged against former Uttar Pradesh minister Swami Prasad Maurya in Varanasi for his alleged objectionable ...

NEW Delhi, Aug 11 (Reuters) - India's government moved three bills in the lower house of parliament on Friday aimed at overhauling some colonial-era criminal laws, ranging from the controversial ...

NEW DELHI, May 12 (Reuters) - Authorities in an Indian state want to ban polygamy as part of a bid by the Hindu-nationalist central government to standardise the civil code across the country.

The Supreme Court on Monday held that current penal laws do not allow for the invocation of rape or unnatural offences ...