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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

Hathras case: Allahabad HC refuses to stay or transfer ongoing trial outside Hathras

The victim’s family had urged the court to stay the trial before the special court, after they faced intimidation and threats in open court

Guj HC warns Police of misuse of PASA to settle private disputes

The court quashed detention orders passed under PASA after finding inadequate justification for detaining the petitioners who were deemed “property grabbers”

Bhima Koregaon: Prisoners accuse ex-jail superintendent of ‘political censorship’

The former Taloja Jail Superintendent Kaustubh Kurlekar has been allegedly saving copies of the letter exchanged between the accused and their family and lawyers  

Cannot be externed for raising grievance against Gov’t: Gujarat HC protects CAA-NRC protester

 The High Court has quashed the externment order against Mohmmad Kaleem Siddique, who was accused in some FIRs related to protests

Guj HC refuses to remove stay on Sec 5 of anti-conversion law

The court said that permission is not needed for inter-faith marriage; AG appearing for the state gov't had argued that section 5 did not relate to marriage per se and only dealt with lawful conversion

Marital rape can be grounds for divorce: Kerala HC

In a monumental judgement, the court said that marital rape is not penalised in India hence, it can be considered to be physical and mental cruelty which becomes a ground for divorce

Sexual intercourse by force by a husband on wife not an offence: Chhattisgarh HC

This observation by the court, even if it is just a reading down of the provisions of the definition of rape under IPC, does not help the cause for women’s rights and jurisprudence

Allahabad HC quashes case against Dr Kafeel Khan for anti-CAA speech

The court has quashed entire criminal proceedings initiated against Dr Khan after he delivered a speech against CAA at the Aligarh Muslim University. He was detained under NSA for the same and his detention was cancelled last year

State is deriving sadistic pleasure by extending custody period, its torture: Ishrat Jahan

During the lawyer-activists’ bail hearing, the Public Prosecutor argued that her bail plea is not maintainable, after 6 months of hearing

Guj gov’t seeks removal of stay on operation of sec 5 of anti-conversion law

The High Court had stayed certain provisions of the law in an interim order granting relief to the petitioners. The court, had, at the outset expressed its displeasure over certain provisions of the Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Act, 2021

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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