Kangaroo Court

A 14-year-old boy tried to die by suicide and is fighting for his life after a kangaroo court in Bhubaneswar allegedly made him do sit-ups along with his father and two others, police said on Friday.

The Chief Justice said biased views being spread by the media were weakening democracy and harming the system.

Donald Trump lashed out overnight at the panel investigating the US Capitol riot, calling it a "kangaroo court," he said the panel's vice chair Liz Cheney is a "sanctimonious loser".

Former US president Donald Trump on Monday decried the congressional probe into the riot by his supporters last year at the US Capitol as a "mockery of justice".

Maoists conducted a kangaroo court in Bihar's Gaya yesterday and hanged two men and two women and blew up their house.

Two people were killed by a mob in a remote village in Assam after local residents suspected them of practicing witchcraft and a kangaroo court decided to kill them, police sources said.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram took a dig at the centre, investigating agencies and the media over the "new improved system" of trials and judgments that don't require substantial evidence. He said that the system will "surpass kangaroo courts and justice will be delivered on TV channels".

All fingers of a 73-year-old man were allegedly chopped off by his son for practicing witchcraft in West Bengal's Birbhum district, the police said today.

A group of people tried to burn alive a 29-year-old man following an order of a kangaroo court over a land dispute in Malda district of West Bengal, an official said on Thursday.

Union Minister Arun Jaitley today said the unprovoked gesture of a Pakistani military court to sentence Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav to death through a "kangaroo court" will not help the cause of peace in the region.

A woman accused of having an affair was dragged out of her home in Bengal's Murshidabad on Sunday and humiliated by a group of 50 villagers who ordered her husband to chop off her hair.

Chhattisgarh, after a period of brief lull, is once again witnessing an upsurge in Maoist-organised 'Jan Adalat' (people's court or Kangaroo court) where people suspected to be loyal to the state are punished in full public view.

A man and a woman were allegedly beaten up and paraded by a tribal panchayat in Madhya Pradesh's Alirajpur district on Tuesday, as 'punishment' for eloping.

A 50-year-old woman in Rajasthan was allegedly paraded naked on a donkey on the orders of a self-styled village court that decided that she was guilty of killing her husband's cousin. Villagers chopped off her hair, blackened her face and stripped her as she kept pleading that she was innocent.

A court in West Bengal has sentenced 13 people to 20 years in prison over the gang-rape of a tribal girl at Labhpur village in the state's Birbhum district in January this year.

A 14-year-old boy tried to die by suicide and is fighting for his life after a kangaroo court in Bhubaneswar allegedly made him do sit-ups along with his father and two others, police said on Friday.

The Chief Justice said biased views being spread by the media were weakening democracy and harming the system.

Donald Trump lashed out overnight at the panel investigating the US Capitol riot, calling it a "kangaroo court," he said the panel's vice chair Liz Cheney is a "sanctimonious loser".

Former US president Donald Trump on Monday decried the congressional probe into the riot by his supporters last year at the US Capitol as a "mockery of justice".

Maoists conducted a kangaroo court in Bihar's Gaya yesterday and hanged two men and two women and blew up their house.

Two people were killed by a mob in a remote village in Assam after local residents suspected them of practicing witchcraft and a kangaroo court decided to kill them, police sources said.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram took a dig at the centre, investigating agencies and the media over the "new improved system" of trials and judgments that don't require substantial evidence. He said that the system will "surpass kangaroo courts and justice will be delivered on TV channels".

All fingers of a 73-year-old man were allegedly chopped off by his son for practicing witchcraft in West Bengal's Birbhum district, the police said today.

A group of people tried to burn alive a 29-year-old man following an order of a kangaroo court over a land dispute in Malda district of West Bengal, an official said on Thursday.

Union Minister Arun Jaitley today said the unprovoked gesture of a Pakistani military court to sentence Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav to death through a "kangaroo court" will not help the cause of peace in the region.

A woman accused of having an affair was dragged out of her home in Bengal's Murshidabad on Sunday and humiliated by a group of 50 villagers who ordered her husband to chop off her hair.

Chhattisgarh, after a period of brief lull, is once again witnessing an upsurge in Maoist-organised 'Jan Adalat' (people's court or Kangaroo court) where people suspected to be loyal to the state are punished in full public view.

A man and a woman were allegedly beaten up and paraded by a tribal panchayat in Madhya Pradesh's Alirajpur district on Tuesday, as 'punishment' for eloping.

A 50-year-old woman in Rajasthan was allegedly paraded naked on a donkey on the orders of a self-styled village court that decided that she was guilty of killing her husband's cousin. Villagers chopped off her hair, blackened her face and stripped her as she kept pleading that she was innocent.

A court in West Bengal has sentenced 13 people to 20 years in prison over the gang-rape of a tribal girl at Labhpur village in the state's Birbhum district in January this year.