The state became the third in India to bring in a bill to punish those damaging private or public property during riots, hartals and protests. After becoming a law, tribunals will be set up in this regard.
Although the Kerala High Court has dismissed her plea that her “kidnapped” child born out of wedlock be produced, a young mother’s fight against the parental control of her child is being seen as a milestone in a woman’s right to her sexuality.
The Supreme Court recently said that if any court finds that an offence registered under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities Act), 1989, is primarily a private or ...
On October 22, the Supreme Court set aside a Kerala High Court order, which had asked the centre to grant Kerala cadre to IAS officer A Shainamol who had been allotted the Himachal Pradesh cadre. Sha...
Defending the validity of the traceability clause embodied under Rule 4(2) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, the centre recently infor...
The West Bengal government had filed an original suit before the Supreme Court raising the issue of continuous registration of FIRs by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the state despite t...
By Vikram Kilpady
A circular of the Telangana chief secretary, dated October 13, 2021, mandated every special chief secretary, principal secretary and secretaries to alert the public information o...
Ever since the first lockdown in March 2020, physical functioning of courts in India had been put on hold, with hearings being conducted using video telecommunication platforms. Even though the court...
The Delhi High Court recently ruled that a father cannot be absolved of the responsibilities to meet the education expenses of his children simply because they have attained the age of majority. A si...
In the 50th year of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, abortion in India is legal in certain circumstances and illegal in certain circumstances. Section 312 (“voluntarily causing a woman to mi...