By Matters India Reporter Phulbani, May 21, 2019: Gornath Chalanseth, one of the seven Christians languishing for a decade in an Odisha jail, was released on bail granted by the Supreme Court. “My joy has no words,” Chalanseth said May 20 as his family and well-wishers accorded him an emotionalContinue Reading
New Delhi: Adultery is no longer a crime in India though “without a shadow of doubt” can be grounds for divorce, the Supreme Court said on September 27, junking a 158-year law that punished a man for an affair but not the woman, treating her as her husband’s property. “TheContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi: The section 377 of the Indian Penal Code of 1861 criminalized sexual activities ‘against the order of nature’. People who choose to adopt sexual tendencies ‘against the order of nature’ are bracketed under a community popularly known as LGBT, which hogged the limelight through theirContinue Reading
New Delhi: Female genital mutilation has numerous health hazards associated with it and amounts to violation of right to life and dignity of a woman, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra observed on Monday. The Chief Justice made the oral observation while hearing a PIL (public interest litigation) petitionContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on April 23 dismissed the plea of social activist Swami Agnivesh seeking deletion of scenes from the film ‘Padmaavat’ on the ground that it glorified the practice of ‘Jauhar’. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra rejected the plea of Angivesh whichContinue Reading
New Delhi: The crisis within the Judiciary is far from over. After the statement of Justice Jasti Chelameswar, the second senior-most Judge of the Supreme Court (SC), as to how Benches are “preferred” or “managed” within the SC, Justice Kurian Jospeh has spoken against the “increasing interference of the government”Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar: As members of the Dalit caste were protesting the Supreme Court order that prevented the immediate arrest of those being violent towards them across India on April 2, the Bishops of Odisha and other church leaders have planned to deliberate on the Dalits of OdishaContinue Reading
New Delhi: The ruling issued by Kerala High Court to stay the proceedings against Cardinal Mar George Alencherry on the controversial land deals of the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese of Syro- Malabar Church will continue till April 3. The Supreme Court dismissed the plea requesting to vacate the stay on the HCContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Supreme Court may have paved the way for passive euthanasia in terminal cases by allowing ‘living wills’, but in a country where religious ramifications hang heavy on an individual’s daily life, can the question of when and how to die be exempt? A living will is aContinue Reading
The court said that the state government was obliged to grant fresh mining leases in accordance with lawContinue Reading
