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The Kerala High Court had recently stopped mass drill and martial training conducted by the RSS in temples on the premises of the Sarkara Devi Temple in the state. The Travancore Devaswom Board, following the order, has banned the RSS from operating on the premises of temples run by the Board

The Allahabad High Court recently termed live-in relationships as “infatuation”, but this has to be juxtaposed with the apex court declaring that the right to live together is a part of the right to life

The Calcutta High Court advised adolescent girls to control their sexual urges and boys to respect their bodily autonomy. Courts have also often criticised the POCSO Act for prosecuting adolescents

The Supreme Court recently directed the centre and all state governments to ensure complete eradication of the practice of manual scavenging while dealing with deaths occurring in sewers. The Court held that it was the centuries-old stigmatising social practices that led to the deprivation of scavengers to such levels that they were not even recognised as human beings. Regrettably, manual scavenging still persists despite many legislations

In a recent case, the Supreme Court said that marriage is a pious life-net and dismissed the plea for divorce. Yet, in numerous cases, it has cited Article 142 to dissolve marriages which are beyond repair

The ED’s attempts to book the party in the alleged liquor policy scam may come to naught as there is no separate law for financial misdemeanours of political parties

Congress leader Afzal Lakhani, who was arrested for posting anti-Indian and pro-Pakistani messages, besides derogatory remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his late mother Hiraben Modi, was granted bail by the Supreme Court recently. The Court has also intervened in other cases where bail was denied by the High Courts

The pleas seeking its legal recognition failed 2-3 at the doorstep of the Supreme Court’s five-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud

Debates over a woman’s autonomy over her own body vs the universal right to life of the unborn child have been keenly followed, but never more than after the latest case that arose due to a split verdict for termination of a 26-week pregnancy. The verdict was given by a Supreme Court bench that had voiced two opposite ideas of rights in such matters, but has finally come to an end

Recently, the National Restaurant Association of India and the Federation of Hotel and Restaurant Associations of India challenged the July 4, 2022, guidelines of the Central Consumer Protection Authority in the Delhi High Court. The Authority had directed hotels and restaurants not to levy service charge on food bills. This issue has now become a legal bone of contention