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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 problem in India is an eminently solvable one, only if people in power accept that the age-old scourge exists. Political apathy and a complete disinterest from the overall law enforcement system, as well as the aloof justice system, ensures the evergreening of the social evil

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 the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Indian government is taking proactive measures to combat the spread of misinformation facilitated by these messaging platforms. Fuelled by the surge in artificial intelligence-driven deep fake videos featuring politicians, the centre is now invoking a contentious law to hold WhatsApp accountable for the content shared on its platform

An abandoned wife can claim maintenance from her estranged husband even if she is educated and employed. There is a logical economic line defining the situation

India’s burgeoning retail sector is caught between a rock and a hard place, between subsisting on thin margins and rising client expectations. The government needs to put in place its trade policy with alacrity

In a move to sensitise people towards the trauma faced by same-sex couples, Chief Justice DY Chandrachud issued a slew of measures to protect them, including safe houses and hotline numbers

Even as feisty Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra faces allegations of professional impropriety, the question is whether she has broken the Code of Conduct governing members of Parliament

While there are laws dealing with obscenity, OTT platforms with frontal nudity and lesbian and homosexual acts seem to have democratised it. Social change is liberalising views on it

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