An Indian court has sentenced to death three men who raped a photojournalist inside an abandoned textile mill in the financial hub of Mumbai last year.

Indian police have filed rape and murder charges against five men accused in the gang rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus.

India’s top court has ordered a state government to explain the arrest of two women for a comment one of them posted on Facebook.

An Indian court yesterday sent a cartoonist to jail to await trial on sedition charges over sketches that lampoon government corruption, triggering an outcry from freedom of expression campaigners.

The sole surviving gunman from last year’s Mumbai massacre dramatically admitted his guilt today in a detailed account of the plot that left 166 people dead.

AN INDIAN court has ruled that gay sex was legal in a ground-breaking decision overturning laws dating back to the British colonial era.

An Indian court today ruled that gay sex is legal.

The only man charged in connection with last year’s terror attacks in Mumbai told an Indian court today that he agreed to being provided with a lawyer by the government and also repeated that he is from Pakistan.

An Indian court issued arrest warrants for Hollywood actor Richard Gere and Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty today, saying their kiss at a public function "transgressed all limits of vulgarity," media reports said.

An Indian court today found Mohammed Ghansar guilty of planting one of the bombs that ripped through the commercial capital Mumbai in 1993, killing more than 250 people.

An Indian court has sentenced a doctor to two years in prison for using ultrasound tests to determine the sex of foetuses – information the mothers could use to abort baby girls, an official said today.

INDIA’S supreme court has ordered the government to release millions of dollars in compensation for victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy which killed 3,000 people.

THREE men were yesterday sentenced to hang for helping the suicide attackers who stormed India’s parliament a year ago, almost triggering a war with nuclear rival Pakistan.

An appeals court in Eastern India has rejected a petition for release by a British arms dealer sentenced to life in prison for smuggling weapons to a rebel group.

An Indian court was to decide today whether to lessen charges against the former chairman of US-based Union Carbide for a 1984 gas leak that left thousands of people dead in one of the world’s worst industrial accidents.