The Allahabad High Court held that it is the responsibility of State government to take care of minor rape victim and her child and directed the State to ensure provision of health facility and education to the victim. In the instant case, a minor rape victim became pregnant and had
A compilation of suggestions has been made by Pinky Anand, the Additional Solicitor General and Arvind Datar, the senior counsel to consider introduction of appropriate measures, if any, for an improved working of the collegium system. Other stakeholders like Chairman of Bar Council of India have prayed for further time
In the Manish Sharma v. Commissioner of Delhi Police, the petitioner challenged the order of Commisioner of Delhi Police, which restrained them from carrying on the trade of selling crackers. Although, the grounds of refusal were rational and in the interest of public, as the electricity transformer was there in
In a PIL filed by advocate Anupam Tripathi to stop culling of stray dogs undertaken by the Thiruvananthapuram civic body, the Supreme Court has directed the municipal authorities to show “compassion” towards stray dogs to avoid their indiscriminate killings but ensure that human beings do not have to suffer due
A surrogate mother is a woman who carries and gives birth to a baby for “commissioning parents” and hands them the newborn for money after surrendering all her parental rights. A contract involving such an agreement is a surrogacy agreement. The Central Government has informed the Supreme Court that it
In the past few months, Punjab has witnessed social unrest having students, farmers, unemployed youth protesting on the streets, agitating towards the desecration of one of the copies of the Guru Granth Sahib, which is considered to be the most sacred and prestigious text in the Sikh religion. It was
Restricting driving policy, also commonly referred as Odd-Even number plate policy, is on the tongue of everyone these days. Due to the realization of increase in smog in the NCT, the government of Delhi played their jack and decided to reduce the pollution by reducing the number of pollution emitting
The Conference of Parties to United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change concluded at Paris to which environmentalists, with increased interest, were looking forward to, seem to be making a breakthrough in the negotiations which was going on from 1992 Rio summit for curbing the damage caused by greenhouse. The
Delhi, with a population of more than 16 million is a home to people from all parts of the country and also one of the very first gates of entry whenever people from abroad come for a visit. The impression which it leaves stays in the minds of the people
“To make a [Muslim], therefore, to abstain from cow-killing under compulsion would amount in my opinion to converting him to Hinduism by force.” – Mahatma Gandhi in his book Hind Swaraj The nation, which gave rise to four religions and has secularism and free speech both enshrined in it’s constitution,
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