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As sports bodies openly ignore the Supreme Court guidelines on setting up internal complaints committees to look into sexual harassment charges, female sportspersons are left in the lurch. The latest to join the long line of victims are top female wrestlers of the country. How will the predators be prosecuted?

The new liquor policy allows large, international companies to sell ready-to-drink alcoholic beverages, beer and wine to their employees at their workplaces subject to terms. It may sound hip and cool, but alcohol abuse is a familiar Indian story.

Considering the Delhi government’s plea seeking quashing of orders by the L-G nominating 10 persons as aldermen to the MCD, the Court said the move could destabilise the civic body.

The government is using artificial intelligence and facial recognition to detect individuals with more than nine SIMs and who are indulging in cybercrimes.

By ignoring the apex court’s order and introducing the Authority, the centre has triggered a constitutional crisis, which goes against the spirit of democracy, federalism and rule of law.

The current debt-ceiling issue is a phony crisis with a hostage scenario in a massive culture war. The right-wing dream is to replace a pluralistic democracy with an authoritarian government favouring a strong Christian nationalist perspective on all issues.

The issue of narcotics and the law is once again under the scanner following the interrogation of former zonal director Narcotics Control Bureau Sameer Wankhede by the CBI for violating conduct rules by sharing conversations he had with actor Shah Rukh Khan regarding his son Aryan Khan’s arrest in the Cordelia cruise ship “drug bust” case. It has once again brought into focus the law and penalties against possession of narcotics.

The Indian Armed Forces Tribunal faces multiple challenges in the modern era, not least being involved in an era of gender parity and the ambit of cases it can officially deal with. At an India Legal Research Foundation event, Editor-in-Chief, APN channel, RAJSHRI RAI spoke with JUSTICE RAJENDRA MENON, the chairperson of Armed Forces Tribunal on a range of issues. Excerpts:

Has the time come for the Supreme Court to suo motu articulate a cogent protection regime for the rights of those in prison or other forms of custodial confinement?

Union law minister Kiren Rijiju has been sacked. Experts feel that his barrage of unhinged words against the judiciary was his undoing.