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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

Will arresting the breadwinner and driving women to suicide help solve the societal evil of child marriage: Guwahati HC grants ABA in cases while...

As POCSO, IPC (Rape), and PCMA is applied on the cases registered, this "crackdown on child marriage" seems more likely to be driven by extra judicious factors

CJP Impact: Another woman spared from the prospect of statelessness in Assam!

CJP Team in Assam stood with the 68-year-old Ajibun Nessa, fought to protect her rights, and prove her citizenship

Even “encroachers” need to be rehabilitated says Courts

The Bombay High Court and the Supreme Court have, in separate judgements over demolition drives, stressed upon the need for a rehabilitation plan for all those displaced

Hatebuster: Is it Love Jihad or just love?

Despite what right wing goons will have you believe with their saffron teekas, sticks and threatening looks, the Constitution only encourages you to love more and love everyone

Kerala HC: Religion does not propagate terrorism; fundamentalists have distorted religion

The court was considering applications for suspension of sentence filed by a few convicts, held guilty under UAPA for associating with ISIS

UP: Demolition drive goes awry, mother daughter burnt alive

While officers initially claimed that they set themselves on fire, a case of murder has now been filed against the SDM and two others

Journalist detained for interrogation for report on right wing groups

Zafar Aafaq was released after 3 hours of questioning

Guj HC imposes Rs. 25,000 cost on ‘neighbours’ in Hindu locality opposing sale of property to Muslim man

While the court does not expressly mention this as a case of socio-economic  boycott, the bench saw through the intentions of the litigants who had no real legally valid objection to the sale of the property

Good governance state reports steady spiral in deaths in police custody in past 3 years: Gujarat

GANDHINAGAR: According to data provided by the Union government...

22-year-old jailed for life, Gujarat court comments on how cow’s urine can cure many incurable diseases & how problems on earth will be solved...

Charged with transporting cows and bullocks from Gujarat to Maharashtra under the stringent Gujarat Animal Preservation (Amendment) Act, 2017, a 22- year-old man sentenced to life imprisonment

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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