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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Illustration: Anthony Lawrence
Indian courts are getting digitised but there are hiccups on the way—slow conversion of case records, red tape, incompetently executed renovations and clients who are...
Another Judiciary-Executive tussle has erupted, this time over the conduct of exams for subordinate judiciary in Uttar Pradesh
~By India Legal Bureau
In another spat between the Judiciary and t...
Above: Dr Kafeel Ahmed Khan
A hero who saved many lives, Dr Kafeel Ahmed Khan was sought to be painted as a villain by the Uttar Pradesh government
~By Atul Chandra in Lucknow
After eight mon...
Above: (L-R) Justice Madan B Lokur, Justice Deepak Gupta and Attorney General KK Venugopal
The standoff between the Judiciary and the Executive spilled out into the open on May 4. As a court full o...