The Uttarakhand High Court has recently directed that 50 percent of the amount of rightful dues deposited by a private limited should be disbursed by the District Magistrate, Haridwar to farmers while holding that the HC has to balance the interests of the farmers and of the financial institutions.
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a Special Leave Petition preferred by the state of Uttarakhand against an order of the Uttarakhand High Court, observing that if a woman willingly allows a person, who is not her husband, to behave like her husband, then he cannot be prosecuted for rape.