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Beyond mere Recognition: The Jane Kaushik judgment and the next frontier of transgender equality

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court acknowledged the dignity and rights of employment of transgender individuals, ordered monetary compensation for a transwoman teacher who had been terminated from her position, and ordered that a model Equal Opportunity Policy be made mandatory in all institutions, going further than the Constitution's promise of equality in private employment

J&K: HPC directs provision of legal aid to inmates eligible for temporary bail, parole

The HPC has decided to release convicts who were released last year, for a period of 90 days

UP govt challenges HC order granting bail on apprehension of contracting Covid-19

The Allahabad High Court had granted bail to an accused in a cheating case while observing that it was important to protect an accused from suffering consequences of being infected in prison

Live-in relationship is morally and socially unacceptable: Punjab & Haryana HC

Different judges of the high court in the recent past have passed such regressive orders, that not only go against orders passed by the court in the past, but also contravene precedents laid out by the apex court

UP: Ram Sanehi Ghat mosque demolished despite HC ruling to protected it till May 31

Security is still deployed, “to prevent anyone coming within a mile of where the mosque stood”, reports the Guardian

Medical system in rural Uttar Pradesh is ‘Ram Bharose’: Allahabad HC

The court took exception to the fact that a dead body of one of the patients, who had collapsed in the bathroom and died, was disposed of as unidentified body

Manipur: Journalist, activist post comment on cow dung, charged under NSA

Journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem, activist Erendro Leichombam arrested for social media posts that cow urine, dung doesn't cure Covid-19

Calcutta HC stays bail to Narada sting accused

A CBI court had granted bail to the four arrested in the case on Monday, but later that night, the HC stayed the bail order

EXCLUSIVE: Are Varanasi police trying to create communal tension?

While citizens are trying to protect themselves from the on-going health crisis, Muslim communities have condemned police for fabricating Hindu-Muslim conflict, claim Bhojubeer residents

Our Constitution does not permit such liberal use of NSA: Justice Govind Mathur

The retired judge and former Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court spoke about a range of issues from role of judiciary to post retirement appointments of judges to curtailment of civil liberties

Gauhati HC seeks info on female declared foreigners and their children in Detention Camps

The court revived its suo moto petition from last year to take stock of Covid situation in prisons

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