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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

UP: ‘Unsuitable” to continue as public servants, 3 IPS officer get retirement orders

Inspector General Amitabh Thakur, currently posted as the Joint Director Civil Defence, two others have been retired

SC expresses concern over the possible misuse electoral bonds, reserves its order on the matter

Attorney General KK Venugopal, claims that after electoral bonds were launched in 2018, black money in election funding, has been kept under check

SC directs Param Bir Singh to approach Bombay HC

Singh had moved SC demanding an “unbiased, uninfluenced, impartial and fair investigation” into the allegedly “corrupt malpractices” of Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh

CCTV was not working: Delhi Police to HC in Faizan death case

The incident where the grievously injured young man was forced to sing the national anthem was shot on video and went viral on social media; Faizan's mother had filed a plea seeking a probe into his death 

TN: Special DGP accused of sexual harassment, suspended

The Madras High Court, monitoring the investigation, had urged the government to take action against the accused

Bombay HC refuses to accept compromise affidavit in a sexual assault case

The Bench noted that the aim and objective of Vishakha guidelines will remain defeated if the complainant is coerced to withdraw her complaint

Plea in SC to allow consensual teenage relationships under POCSO Act

The Act is silent on the aspect where two minor individuals enter into a consensual relationship

SC adjourns plea filed in 2019 seeking criminal action for employing manual scavengers

The plea seeks invoking of charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against employers of manual scavengers, who end up dying on the job

Cutting cake with National Flag icing, not unpatriotic: Madras HC

The court was hearing a plea over a complaint filed for cutting a cake with the representation of the Indian National Flag on it

Chhattisgarh HC seeks State’s reply over woman’s custodial death

The court has also directed the police to provide the post mortem report to her family

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