Gender and Sexuality

Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework

Two young Dalit girls attacked, where is the outrage?

Dalit woman abducted and killed, allegedly by "upper caste" men in Bihar; Dalit teen molested in UP

Girls should know when to draw the line: JNU ICC on preventing sexual harassment

The ICC said it will educate students about sexual harassment and its impact on their career

Maharashtra: Woman Sarpanch killed in Raigad

The deceased was identified as a 48-year-old sarpanch of a local gram panchayat, though her identity has been kept confidential so far

Repeated murder attempts, another example of police negligence: Bindu Ammini

Sabarimala activist blames Kerala police for failing to protect her from repeated murder attempts

Scrap the move to raise the age of marriage of girls to 21: AIDWA

According to the group of activists, this move is a diversionary tactic from a government which hasn’t given adequate resources towards nutritional programs

No more teenage girls to be forced into marriage in India?

The Union Cabinet’s clearance to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years has set social media abuzz

Madras HC expresses “dismay and anguish” as NCERT removes report on gender non-conforming, transgender children

Titled 'Inclusion of Transgender Children in School Education: Concerns and Roadmap', the report was taken down from website within hours of its publishing, allegedly owing to ‘external pressure’

Muzaffarnagar horror: Two school principals drug and molest 17 girl students!

Under the pretense of practical exams, two principals kept 17 girls overnight in a private school

SC Collegium recommends elevation of first openly gay judge to Delhi HC

Saurabh Kirpal has been recommended and deferred four time prior to this, purportedly on the flimsy grounds that his partner is a foreign national

Hyderabad-based techie arrested for threating Virat Kohli’s infant with rape

Ramnagesh Srinivas Akubathinihad reportedly changed his Twitter handle and pretended to be a Pakistani user

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Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework

Malegaon 2006 Blast Case: Bombay High Court rejects NIA’s ‘alternate narrative’, holds prosecution built on contradictions and inadmissible evidence

Holding that “diagonally opposite” narratives by investigative agencies cannot sustain a trial, the Court finds the NIA’s case rooted in retracted statements, hearsay material, and a legally impermissible reinvestigation—bringing the prosecution to a “dead end”

Delhi court orders FIR against Abhijit Iyer Mitra for sexually abusive posts targeting women journalists

Court finds tweets “sexually coloured,” prima facie intended to outrage modesty; directs police probe into X account and devices

From Cow Slaughter to “Public Order”: Allahabad High Court’s expanding use of preventive detention

Through detailed reliance on fear, timing, intelligence inputs, and administrative response, the Court stretches “public order” to justify preventive detention—raising difficult questions about liberty, evidence, and constitutional limits

From FIRs to “Corporate Jihad”: How the TCS Nashik case was transformed from an investigation into a communal narrative

As police probe serious claims of harassment, a parallel story of conspiracy and conversion dominates public discourse