By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, May 2, 2026: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has voiced “deep anguish” over the Supreme Court’s directive permitting the termination of a 30-week pregnancy of a 15-year-old minor, calling it a violation of medical ethics and the constitutional right to life. TheContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Oct 23, 2025: The Supreme Court of India on October 17 quashed multiple First Information Reports (FIRs) filed under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021. The FIRs, lodged by third-party complainants affiliated with right-wing Hindu groups, accused Christian educators andContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, July 14, 2023: A family known to me fought a property-related case for almost 15 years. The family consisted of aged parents and three sons. The sons were married and well-settled. Yet, they had an eye on the family property of 20 acres of land.Continue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Nov 11, 2022: The Supreme Court ON November 7, with 3-2 majority, upheld the constitutional validity of the 103rd Constitution Amendment 2019, which provides for 10 percent Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) reservation among the forward castes. Soon after this, the five-judge Constitution bench was toldContinue Reading
By Dr George Jacob Kochi, Oct 8, 2022: A 25-year old unmarried woman, who was 22-weeks pregnant from a consensual relationship, petitioned the Delhi High Court for permission to terminate her pregnancy. The woman contented that that her partner refused to marry her at the last minute, and that “havingContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Sept 19, 2022: The federal government’s reported move to set up a national commission to study the socioeconomic and educational status of Dalit converts to Christianity and Islam will prolong the issue of granting reservation to the poorest in the country, bemoan Christian activists.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Sept 1, 2022: The Supreme Court has directed the federal to take a stand within three weeks on the issue of extending scheduled caste tag to Dalit Christians and Muslims and said that the day has come to take a call on issues havingContinue Reading
New Delhi: Spurred by the murder of a judge in Jharkhand, the Supreme Court on July 30 took suo motu cognisance of the mounting concerns about the dangers faced by the subordinate judiciary, especially trial judges, in the line of duty. A Bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI)Continue Reading
New Delhi: A government cannot “abdicate” its duties to feed migrant workers, especially during a pandemic, merely because they did not have ration cards, the Supreme Court said in a judgment on June 29. “There is a large number of such migrants who do not possess any card. Their aboveContinue Reading
For a lay person the visual of a person getting arrested or being escorted to court, includes him being restrained by handcuffs. That is how arrests were and are portrayed in movies and pop culture for decades. However, the use of handcuffs, while once a common practice, has now beenContinue Reading