Supreme Court has directed its Registry to install three sanitary napkin vending machines within the Court premises. The directive was issued after Advocate Nandini Gore, who is the Secretary of the Supreme Court Advocates-On-Record Association (SCAORA), informed the Court that there are around 1,000 woman lawyers and interns as well as around 250 woman staff with the Court Registry. The Court, thereafter,
The Supreme Court recapitulated that life imprisonment means imprisonment for life and not for 14 years. It observed that modification of sentence to life imprisonment to 20-year rigorous imprisonment is not enhancement, rather reduction of sentence, and hence no notice is required to be given under Section 401 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
The Bombay high Court quashed the order of a Family court in Sholapur where an application filed by a woman seeking compensation for herself and her son was rejected by branding her with the Stigma of ‘Living in Adultery’ without evidence and allowing her ex-husband’s application for seeking cancellation of maintenance. HC sharply criticized the trail courts approach and
A petition was filed in the Madras High Court by Arappor Iyakkam, an organisation who was denied permission to conduct a public meeting against the corruption of the State on the order of an Assistant Commissioner of Police. HC held that someone’s Fundamental right of holding public meeting can’t be denied merely on the apprehension of a law and order situation
Invoking its inherent power to do ‘complete justice’, the Supreme Court has granted divorce to a district judge in West Bengal, whose wife, also a district judge, has been living separately for the past 17 years. Court reiterated that Article 142 of the Constitution for dissolution of a marriage can be invoked where the court finds that the marriage
The Supreme Court, directed States to implement the safety guidelines for schools, as circulated by the Center, and ensure that the students feel safe in schools. Supreme Court bench has directed states, in the Petition filed by the father of a seven year old boy who was found murdered on the premises of Gurugram’s Ryan International School last month.
Justice Rohinton Nariman and the nine-judge bench of Supreme Court have declared Right to Privacy as a fundamental right in a case titled KS Puttaswamy Vs Union of India. Every year, ‘Access Now’ names “heroes” who have worked towards ensuring any electronic surveillance program which fully respects human rights and this year the nine-Judge bench has been acclaimed with this
A petition is filed in the Supreme Court by Goolrakh Gupta a Parsi Zoroastrian woman, raising the legal issue whether she gets automatically converted to Hindu religion after her marriage to a Hindu man. She stated that there was no law in India which says that the wife must adopt her husbands religion. SC stated that it will decide the
The Bombay High Court on hearing a writ petition challenging an order of the family court wherein an interim maintenance amount of Rs. 5,000 each was awarded to the petitioner and her two minor children stated that the respondent husband made every attempt to conceal his income in order to avoid paying maintenance. Thus the court allowed the petition
The Supreme Court put a hold sale of fire crackers in Delhi and NCR region stating that sale will get implemented only from November 1, 2017. A bench headed by Justice A K Sikri said it wanted to test the effect of the ban on air quality after Diwali noting that each year festival leaves the air in Delhi thick
