SC on Thursday began scrutinising petitions seeking to criminalise a husband’s sexual acts with his non-consenting wife by challenging the validity of the exception of marital rape from the offence of rape in Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita and its predecessor, IPC, on the ground that women have an inviolable right to say no to sex in…
NEW DELHI: AAP leaders Manish Sisodia and Atishi celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision to grant bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the excise policy corruption case. The two leaders were intently focused on a laptop screen, closely following the proceedings of the Supreme Court hearing. As soon as the bail ruling was announced,…
MUMBAI: Maharashtra forest minister Sudhir Mungantiwar has unilaterally approved the diversion of 1.7 acres (0.69 hectares) of Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary to the Balayogi Shree Sadanand Maharaj Ashram despite opposition from members of the State Wildlife Board, including the principal chief conservator of forests Shomita Biswas, reports Clara Lewis.A State Wildlife Board meeting called with only…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a woman is the sole owner of her ‘streedhan‘, the gold ornaments and other articles given by her parents at the time of marriage, and said that after divorce, her father has no authority to demand return of those gifts from her erstwhile in-laws.One P Veerabhadra Rao’s…
KOLKATA: RG Kar Medical College‘s ex-principal Sandip Ghosh and four colleagues of the junior doctor found raped and murdered on campus agreed Thursday to take polygraph tests, based on CBI’s request for their legal consent to use this method for verification of statements made to the agency so far.CBI wants a polygraph test on Ghosh,…
NEW DELHI: Taking exception to a nearly 14-hour delay in registering an FIR following the rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar hospital on August 9, Supreme Court on Thursday peppered West Bengal govt with questions: “Who was the principal in touch with to delay registering a complaint with police? What was…
NEW DELHI: The West Bengal government on Tuesday sought a hearing and stay in Supreme Court on Calcutta high court’s ruling which invalidated the reservation granted to these castes from April to September 2010 and 37 additional castes were included under a 2012 law.The apex court will hear the plea on August 27.(This is a…
NEW DELHI: The Central government on Monday filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court defending the its 2019 law which criminalised instant triple talak.According to the affidavit, the government said that the Act helps in ensuring the larger constitutional goals of gender justice and gender equality of married Muslim women and helps their subserve their…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme court dismissed a plea against the election of Amritpal Singh, a jailed radical Sikh preacher, as an MP from Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib. The petitioner argued that Singh, who allegedly does not owe allegiance to the Constitution of India, should not qualify for membership of Parliament under Article 84 of the Constitution….
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday upheld Delhi lieutenant governor’s decision to nominate 10 ‘aldermen’ to the municipal corporation of Delhi, without consulting the state cabinet.In a setback to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Delhi government, a bench of CJ D Y Chandrachud, and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala ruled that the…
