With the aim to tackle the right conferred by the Apex Court of India in Satwant Singh Sawhney V Ramarathnam, which enabled the right to travel abroad to be included within the ambit of Article 21 the Parliament enacted The Passports Act 1967. The object of this Act is to empower the authorities to enable […]
The landmark judgement of NALSA v. Union of India[1] recognized the transgender identity as the third gender. It was delivered on 15th April 2014, by a Division Bench comprising Justice A. K. Sikri and Justice K. S. Radhakrishnan. Members of the Transgender community filed a writ petition demanding legal recognition of their right to choose
Recently in January 2021, the Hon’ble Bombay High Court’s Nagpur Bench created a huge controversy by delivering a verdict where they acquitted an appellant charged under Section 7 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The judgment comes as a huge shock, especially with regards to sexual assualt against male children.
The Supreme Court recently dissolved a marriage by exercising its inherent powers under Article 142 of the Constitution, even as it recognised that there is no statutory law for recognising irretrievable breakdown of marriageas a ground for divorce in India Facts The disputing parties were married in May, 1993, and the wife conceived out of wedlock
Presently, the instance of ‘Indian Young Lawyers Association v. Province of Kerala and Ors.’ included women’s battle for getting the passage in Sabarimala Shrine Temple situated in the State of Kerala. Women have done a ton of struggle for the security of their privileges. The Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala district in Kerala has been disputable
Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Ltd. (IL&FS) is a shadow bank, that means it does not receive any kind of deposits unlike the traditional banks.[1] IL&FS defaulted the payment of dues which amounted to more than Rs. 91,000 Crore. Because of the forthcoming imminent possibility of contagion effect in the financial market, the Central Government
In National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India & Others, all aspects of mental torment of the LGBT community, as well as neglect and alienation of the community, were ended by the Court’s ruling. Equivalent Citation: AIR 2014 SC 1800 Introduction The lives of humans are full of inconsistencies, however relative to other people,
The crime rate in India has seen an upward trajectory in the last two to three decades. Rapes and murders have become common occurrences . It is painful to know that a country like India, full of diverse culture and tradition, rituals and customs, where women deities are worshipped by millions of devotees, have a
In the year 2013, Shreya Singhal documented an appeal in court stating that section 66A of IT Act is in violation of freedom of speech and expression [1]. The applicant was seeking declarations of some sections in the IT Act [2] as unconstitutional on the ground that the provisions were very broad and vague, and
