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Raining gifts and freebies in poll-bound Chhattisgarh

Above: Rural women with mobile phones/Photo courtesy: indianfolk.com The Chhattisgarh government’s poll-eve decision to distribute 50 lakh smartphones to all BPL card holders has raised questions a...

Rape Case: A Compromised Police?

Above: The petitioner has filed a separate case in the Delhi High Court seeking registration of an FIR against his daughter-in-law In a scathing indictment of the police, a senior citizen accused o...

WhatsApp Hartal Call: A Dangerous Hoax

Above: A protest against the hartal in Thiruvananthapuram/Photo: UNI The Kerala High Court has cracked down on those who forwarded messages which spawned hartals  in north Kerala districts and led ...

Labour Laws in IT Companies: Sacked at Gunpoint!

Above: HITEC IT Park in Hyderabad The swanky campuses of IT firms hide the harsh reality of pink slips and bouncers who get unwilling employees to resign. They have now formed a forum and gone to c...

Victimization by Transgenders: Gender is a matter of personal choice, rules Kerala HC

Above: Transgenders at the Queer Cultural Fest in Thiruvananthapuram/Photo: UNI The Kerala HC, accused of judicial overreach for ordering a medical exam on a transgender, rejects a mother’s petitio...

Husband’s Salary: Paying for the Slip

Above: Illustration by Anthony Lawrence In an interesting development, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has ruled that a wife has the right to know her husband’s salary, thereby upholding a CIC rulin...

Live-in Relationships: Born Free, Live Free!

Above: Illustration by Anthony Lawrence In far-reaching judgments, courts have approved live-in relationships among adults even if the boy is not of marriageable age ~By Venkatasubramanian Fo...

Release of Detenues: By the Grace of GoD

Above: Delhi High Court said the petitioners’ right to make  representation against their arrest was denied The Delhi High Court has set free two persons held under COFEPOSA on the ground that the ...

Lessons in Litigation

While adjudicating the Amity Law School case, where students were debarred from sitting for exams, the Delhi High Court brought up some critical issues over BCI’s powers on the issue ~By Rajesh Kum...

Papa Don’t Preach

In a progressive judgment, the Madras High Court has ruled that it’s not mandatory to fill the father’s name in a birth certificate. But experts say this would be difficult to implement for all record...

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