Acid Attack

Acid Attack: Laws and Punishment in India

Introduction The incident of acid attack has been increasing phenomena in India and the majority of the casualty of the offense is particularly ladies. While these assaults can be credited to different factors, for example, the social; shortcoming of ladies and the presence of male-ruled society. Which brought up the issue of the Indian culture […]

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Hearing of Ayodhya Case

Breaking: In-camera hearing in SC on Committee Report in Prajwala case

In a major development in the Prajwala case relating to circulation of videos of sexual assault and child pornography on the internet, the Supreme Court today agreed to hold an in-camera hearing on the Committee report. A Bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and UU Lalit acceded to the request by Whatsapp, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and other search engines […]

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Bill on Transgender’s Rights

Pending Cases in India- 4 states, one UT bring down pendency of 10-year-old cases to almost zero

Haryana, Punjab, Himachal, Kerala and Chandigarh are the five where the courts have managed to dispose of almost all cases pending for a decade or more Delhi, Assam, MP, Andhra and Karnataka are not too far behind and have brought down pendency of 10-yr-old cases to almost 1% of total pending cases For the first […]

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marital rape

Delhi HC to continue hearing Marital Rapes case, requests Raju Ramchandran to assist as Amicus

The Delhi High Court will continue to hear the petitions filed by various parties to get marital rape declared as an offence after Advocate Gaurav Agrawal informed the court today, that the issues before the Supreme Court and the High Court did not overlap with each other. The court also requested Senior Advocate Raju Ramchandran to assist the Court […]

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RMLNLU

RMLNLU students on protest over alleged sexual harassment, administrative inefficiency

Students of Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University (RMLNLU), Lucknow are protesting the state of affairs at the University. The students have been up in arms over the administration’s arbitrary policies and inaction in a number of matters for some time now. And the straw that broke the camel’s back was the recent incidents of […]

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Chandigarh stalking case: Court denies bail to Vikas Barala and Ashish Kumar

Chandigarh stalking case A district court on Tuesday rejected the bail pleas of Vikas Barala and Ashish Kumar, both arrested for stalking and attempting to abduct Varnika Kundu, an IAS officer’s daughter, ANI reported. Vikas Barala, the son of Haryana Bharatiya Janata Party President Subhash Barala, and his friend Kumar were arrested on August 9 for allegedly stalking and […]

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Bill on Transgender’s Rights

HIGH COURT- Tamil Nadu HC pushed State Govt. to pass the pending Bill on Transgender Rights

Madras HC while observing that Transgender Rights, who are facing severe stigma in the society, have to be protected, directed Central Govt. to expedite the passage of a pending legislation on their rights. Justice N Kirubakaran expounded that,”It is high time Government took serious steps to get The Rights of Transgender Persons Bill passed.” He has suo […]

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