The accused teacher has been booked under Sec. 295A of IPC and Sec. 77 of JJ Act; order states bench might consider appointing expert agency for counselling as victim’s father files affidavit stating that victim is “severely traumatised”
Death threats for attending Garba in Gujarat; robbed, tortured urinated upon in Tamil Nadu: a saga of unending violence against Dalits continues unabatedly
In this legal resource, CJP delves deep into the requirement of the disclosure of a candidate’s criminal antecedents, filing of false affidavits, disqualification and the issues yet to be addressed
In an embarrassing move for the Government of India, United States Senator Tammy Baldwin has introduced of a Senate resolution calling for an end to religious and political...
The Election Commission has, in response to a complaint by Congress, issued a notice to the Assam CM for his comments against a Muslim minister during a speech in Chattisgarh. The CM, in his defence, has said that there was nothing inciteful in his comments.
Officials at Attari–Wagah reportedly told the pilgrims, “You are Hindu, you cannot go with a Sikh group,” sending them back despite valid travel documents
As India’s online world expands, so does the gap between crime and accountability. NCRB data records numbers, but not the reasons behind their soaring increase; besides erasure of reporting of gendered cybercrimes constitute a glaring gap: there is an absence of adequate reportage within NCRB on stalking, cyberbullying, morphing, which are show a mere 5 per cent of rise
Justice P.V. Kunhikrishnan reasserts constitutional and gender equality, procedural fairness, and the emotional agency of Muslim women in a landmark judgment
The passing of 90-year-old Bhadant Gyaneshwar, President of the Kushinagar Bhikshu Sangh and a disciple of Bhante Chandramani—who gave Baba Saheb his deeksha at the historic Deekshabhumi in Nagpur on October 14, 1956, on Dhammachakrapravartan Day—represents a great loss for the Buddhist fraternity worldwide
In this brief, data-driven socio-political timeline of 20th-21st Century India, the author reminds us of the context in which the controversial Bollywood movie, Haq, is sought to be released