By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Oct. 7, 2021: Human rights activists on October 7 welcomed the Supreme Court giving the Uttar Pradesh government 24 hours to file a report on the killing of farmers in the northern Indian state four days ago. A bench led by Chief Justice of IndiaContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji: A Catholic priest, who uses youth power to promote agriculture and protect Goa from polluting mines, has welcomed the Supreme Court upholding its earlier order of cancellation of mining leases in the western Indian state. “People of India can still trust judiciary that it will notContinue Reading
New Delhi: Bal Swaraj, an online tracking portal of a national child rights body, shows details of nearly 10,000 children in India in immediate need of care and protection. They include children under 17 orphaned or abandoned during the Covid-19 pandemic since March 2020. The National Commission for Protection ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India has granted anticipatory bail to three persons, including to two elderly nuns, in a medico-legal case. The apex court on April 13 ordered the Madhya Pradesh police not to arrest Sisters Herman Joseph and Loraine Thayil and Sabeeha AnsariContinue Reading
Krishnadas Rajagopal New Delhi: The Supreme Court has forbade judges from making gender stereotypical comments like “’good women are sexually chaste,” women who drink and smoke ‘ask’ for sexual advances or presume that a sexually active woman consented to rape while hearing cases of sexual offence. A Bench of JusticesContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India on March 3 said voicing dissent against the government did not amount to sedition, while rejecting a plea to “terminate” the Lok Sabha membership of Farooq Abdullah and book him for sedition. A Bench led by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul rejected a petitionContinue Reading
New Delhi: Educated youngsters are showing the way forward to reduce caste and community tensions in India by tying the knot in intermarriages, the Supreme Court said in a judgment. “Educated younger boys and girls are choosing their life partners, which, in turn, is a departure from the earlier normsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India November 5 rejected a petition from Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar seeking a review of the Kerala High Court order that had dismissed his plea to dismiss a rape case against him. The review petition was heard by aContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India has rejected a plea seeking ban on Halal form of slaughtering of animals adhered by Muslims. A bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul October 12 questioned the intention of the petitioner and also said that court cannot interfere with the food habitsContinue Reading
New Delhi: Catholic nuns working among distressed women have joined social activists to welcome a recent Supreme Court order to aid commercial sex workers, one of the groups made most vulnerable during the coronavirus pandemic. “We wholeheartedly welcome the Supreme Court verdict in favor of sex workers,” Says Sister ThresiammaContinue Reading