AM IST Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) replaces the Indian Penal Code (IPC), reducing the number of sections from 511 to 358 and adding 21 new offences, including hate crimes and mob lynching. It also ...

As Amit Shah turns 62, a look at his journey from expanding the BJP's national footprint as its president to making decisive ...

NEW DELHI, July 8 (Reuters) - India's overhaul of its decades-old criminal justice system has come under criticism from some lawyers and activists who say the changes could increase police powers over ...

Guwahati, October 17 (Daily Kiran) : Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced on Saturday that the state has ...

India’s government has moved three bills in the lower house of parliament aimed at overhauling some colonial-era criminal laws, ranging from the controversial sedition law to strengthening laws that ...

In the first such case, after colonial-era criminal laws were replaced with India's new criminal code, eight people have been arrested for lynching a Muslim man for eating beef in a northern state ...

India’s government reintroduced three revised criminal law amendment bills in the lower house of Parliament on Tuesday after withdrawing the three bills, which were initially introduced in August. The ...