In 2010, the Supreme Court had come down heavily on persons filing frivolous PILs and set out guidelines for filing them in State of Uttaranchal vs Balwant Singh Chaufal. The court had said: “unfortun...
In yet another case of a pregnant woman pleading for aborting her “abnormal” fetus which is over the 20 weeks old, the Supreme Court today allowed her to terminate the pregnancy. The court went by the...
A management institute is at least expected to manage its admission process well. But it seems FORE School of Management—best known as FORE and located in the tony Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi—...
Recently in a plea before the Supreme Court a pregnant woman sought permission to abort her 24-week-old fetus. She had allegedly been raped by her ex-fiancee on the pretext of marriage and her petitio...
The Madras High Court recently pulled up the Tamil Nadu administration in a scathing denouncement of “honour” killings. It lambasted the administration for its stark apathy in such cases.
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In August 2009, Mindi, a 25-year-old struggling new parent, experienced what doctors later concluded was a psychotic episode. She had been staying in a cousin’s spare basement room in De Soto, Kansas,...
Upset over the wrong interpretation of its verdict on criminal defamation, the Supreme Court has clarified that it would have no bearing on the freedom of speech and expression. The top court had earl...
The five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court in a landmark judgment recently clarified that a trial court could make a man held guilty of heinous crimes serve one jail term followed by anoth...
The Supreme Court, today, gave a ruling that highlights yet another aspect of Article 21—the Right to Life includes Right to Justice. The court held that the Right to Justice extends to allowing trans...
The Modi government had recently given the go-ahead to a law ministry proposal suggesting changing the names of the Bombay and Madras high courts. Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had later indicated ...