Month September 2018
Threat to democracy Uttar Pradesh police, never really respected for its impartiality and commitment to justice, seems to have sunk to unfathomable levels. The encounters across the state have made headlines in the independent media with investigative stories of how… Continue Reading →
Another male bastion falls: SC throws open Sabarimala temple to all women Justice Malhotra, Lone Woman On Constitutional Bench, Dissents A 5-judge bench held that the practice of exclusion of .. New Delhi: In a path-breaking verdict to ensure… Continue Reading →
AmitAnand.Choudhary New Delhi: Morality of the mob should not be allowed to undermine rights of individual citizens granted under the Constitution as popular notions about what is moral and what is not are transient and fleeting, Justice D Y Chandrachud… Continue Reading →
In a minority judgment on Friday, he argued that the material put before the court takes ‘liberties with the truth’. The Supreme Court in a 2:1 judgment on Friday ruled that it would not set up a court-monitored investigation into… Continue Reading →
[email protected] New Delhi: Holding that the menstrual status of a woman is deeply personal and an intrinsic part of her privacy, the Supreme Court on Friday said social stigma associated with the biological and physiological process of a woman has… Continue Reading →
Cops Raided Kid’s House Several Times To Arrest Him Mohd Dilshad TNN Muzaffarnagar: In a clash between two groups at a Shamli village, the Uttar Pradesh Police had booked a five-year-old boy, among others, under IPC section 326 (voluntarily causing… Continue Reading →
Justice Chandrachud differs strongly on several key points in the verdict Elizabeth RocheRemya Nair New Delhi: The Supreme Court may have declared Aadhaar constitutionally valid and not violative of privacy, but the sole dissenting voice in the five-judge… Continue Reading →
[email protected] New Delhi: Justice Rohinton F Nariman said almost all ancient civilisations punished the “sin of adultery” and Hammurabi’s Code of 1754 BC prescribed death by drowning as punishment for the offence, be it by the wife or the husband…. Continue Reading →
The law punished a man who has an affair with a woman “without the consent or connivance of” her husband, with five years in jail or fine or both. There was no punishment for the woman, who was seen as… Continue Reading →
Image moreMore than a billion Indians enrolled by giving their fingerprints and retina scans India’s Supreme Court has ruled that Aadhaar – the world’s largest and most controversial biometrics-based identity database – has sufficient legal grounds to exist. But the… Continue Reading →