Legal Loopholes

Puberty blockers are frequently provided to children who are unsure of their gender to prevent bodily changes like the growth of breasts or facial hair.

Italy's competition watchdog AGCM is trying to close a legal loophole that has allowed several companies to evade antitrust fines and may help Amazon in an ongoing appeal, a legal expert and two sources told Reuters. The law has been used by the Council of State, Italy's top administrative court, over the last three years to scrap several antitrust...

Telangana minister says accused in Jubilee Hills case got bail due to legal "loopholes" that he wants plugged so that "rapists remain in jail"

China and its neighbours must not only crack down on wildlife trade but also shut legal loopholes that allow disease-prone species to be farmed, experts said after an investigation team concluded that COVID-19 most likely originated in animals.

Amid the political crisis in Rajasthan, the Congress government led by Ashok Gehlot has passed a notification making it impossible for the Central Bureau of Investigation to conduct any probe or raid in the state without the approval of the state government.

Soon after the four convicts in the 2012 gangrape and murder of a young medical student, who came to be known as "Nirbhaya" or fearless, were hanged this morning, political leaders across the posted strong reactions on social media as some of them called for removal of loopholes in the legal system.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said it is sad that the convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya case are "escaping death sentence" by using legal loopholes, stressing that there is an urgent need to amend the laws to ensure hanging in cases of rape within six months.

The case filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation against its Special Director RK Asthana is full of legal loopholes, NDTV learnt as the battle between the two top bosses of the agency reached the Delhi High Court today. For one, the First Information Report that was filed against Mr Asthana on October 15 is under a clause of the corruption law...

One of the UK's worst road accidents that killed eight Indians last year has prompted calls from a road charity today to block a legal loophole which keeps employers in the dark about dangerous drivers.

Legal loopholes in the Mumbai terror attack case led to the granting of bail to its alleged mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) stated here in a written order.

A former BND lawyer told Parliament this week that Germans aren't protected while working abroad for foreign companies.

The UK government has issued fresh guidelines to close a legal loophole that allowed sex-based abortions amid reports that several infant girls were "missing" in certain ethnic communities, largely British Asian, who have a cultural preference to a male child.

A wake-up call given by the Madras High Court (HC) in a judgment delivered nearly 10 years ago, which went unheeded in the lower echelons of bureaucracy and police, has helped Union Minister M K Alagiri's associates escape from detention under the Goondas Act.

Puberty blockers are frequently provided to children who are unsure of their gender to prevent bodily changes like the growth of breasts or facial hair.

Italy's competition watchdog AGCM is trying to close a legal loophole that has allowed several companies to evade antitrust fines and may help Amazon in an ongoing appeal, a legal expert and two sources told Reuters. The law has been used by the Council of State, Italy's top administrative court, over the last three years to scrap several antitrust...

Telangana minister says accused in Jubilee Hills case got bail due to legal "loopholes" that he wants plugged so that "rapists remain in jail"

China and its neighbours must not only crack down on wildlife trade but also shut legal loopholes that allow disease-prone species to be farmed, experts said after an investigation team concluded that COVID-19 most likely originated in animals.

Amid the political crisis in Rajasthan, the Congress government led by Ashok Gehlot has passed a notification making it impossible for the Central Bureau of Investigation to conduct any probe or raid in the state without the approval of the state government.

Soon after the four convicts in the 2012 gangrape and murder of a young medical student, who came to be known as "Nirbhaya" or fearless, were hanged this morning, political leaders across the posted strong reactions on social media as some of them called for removal of loopholes in the legal system.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said it is sad that the convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya case are "escaping death sentence" by using legal loopholes, stressing that there is an urgent need to amend the laws to ensure hanging in cases of rape within six months.

The case filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation against its Special Director RK Asthana is full of legal loopholes, NDTV learnt as the battle between the two top bosses of the agency reached the Delhi High Court today. For one, the First Information Report that was filed against Mr Asthana on October 15 is under a clause of the corruption law...

One of the UK's worst road accidents that killed eight Indians last year has prompted calls from a road charity today to block a legal loophole which keeps employers in the dark about dangerous drivers.

Legal loopholes in the Mumbai terror attack case led to the granting of bail to its alleged mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) stated here in a written order.

A former BND lawyer told Parliament this week that Germans aren't protected while working abroad for foreign companies.

The UK government has issued fresh guidelines to close a legal loophole that allowed sex-based abortions amid reports that several infant girls were "missing" in certain ethnic communities, largely British Asian, who have a cultural preference to a male child.

A wake-up call given by the Madras High Court (HC) in a judgment delivered nearly 10 years ago, which went unheeded in the lower echelons of bureaucracy and police, has helped Union Minister M K Alagiri's associates escape from detention under the Goondas Act.