According to police, the boy and his parents each used two identities to apply for the passports, and several applications received clear police verification reports despite significant discrepancies. Gurgaon: An investigation into a minor’s passport application has lifted the veil on a link between falsified documents, after officials discovered that a family used multiple identities…

All this talk about the Special Intensive Review and the subsequent heated Debate on citizenship and the right to vote. It has me thinking. Am I a citizen of India? I think I am. May I try it on? I doubt I can. I was born here, I have voted several times, and I have…

In his excellently argued article on citizenship, which appeared on this website, BV Rao posits that the contours of a birthright Indian, as drawn by the State, are drawn with the graphite of metrics contained in a sheaf of documents: passports, voter IDs, Aadhaar cards. He maintains that, despite having been in possession of each…

MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court has quashed a criminal case and proceedings against a woman’s in-laws, observing that failure to react, or refusing to actively take sides with the daughter-in-law or being a passive bystander, cannot be a basis for invoking the law for the offense of ‘cruelty to wife’.“A parent or relative, caught in…