Delhi High Court says no insensitive, gender biased comments to be made by Judges

A fast track court in Delhi while giving verdict in a rape case made an insensitive and gender biased comment on the girl saying women in the age group of 19-24 years voluntarily elope with their lovers. This grasped the attention of the Delhi High Court comprising of justices Pradeep Nandrajog and V Kameswar Rao which expunged the two such remarks made by the fast track court and stated...

Centre files review petition in Supreme Court against its verdict on same sex, reversing Delhi High Court Judgement

Equality became a fabled tale for homosexuals when the apex court’s judgment of holding consensual homosexual intercourse as a penal offence was proclaimed.  But government heard their cry from streets of the Indian cities, which marched for the cause of the Naaz Foundation.“We are all here today, all the minority, as well as the mainstream population. Everyone has joined hands to stand...

Attorney General opines Justice AK Ganguly’s matter fit case for Presidential Reference

The Government speaks else wise for the indictment brought upon (retd.) Justice AK Ganguly, held for sexually harassing a law intern in a hotel room in Delhi last year, who currently holds the position of Chairman of West Bengal Human Rights Commission and has denied stepping down for the allegations brought against him.It is learnt from sources that the law ministry and the home ministry...

SC’s Judges Committee refused to probe the allegations by second intern against another former SC Judge

According to a Daily Mail, another intern had informed Chief Justice of India P. Sathasivam that she was sexually harassed by another ‘recently retired’ Judge of the Apex Court. This disclosure comes at a time when the demand for action against former Supreme Court Judge A.K. Ganguly is making news. According to a highly-placed source, complaint against this judge had been sent by the...

Home Ministry asks Law Ministry’s opinion on a Presidential reference to SC in law intern sexual harassment case

Actions might be taken against the former Supreme Court judge Justice AK Ganguly, who has been accused of sexually harassing a law intern. Union Minister Sushilkumar Shinde has reportedly said that Law Ministry’s opinion has been sought by the Home Ministry for sending Presidential reference to the Supreme Court in connection with Justice AK Ganguly’s case.The Home Ministry took this...

Lokpal Finally

After years of fight and eight failed attempts over the last five decades, a historic day for India as it took the much awaited step of enacting the Lokpal law, which would establish an anti-corruption watchdog that will have in its purview even the office of the Prime Minister. The bill which was already passed by the Lok Sabha in December 2011 was sent back to the house to make...

US federal judge rules NSA phone surveillance program is “likely unconstitutional”

National Security Agency's bulk collection of phone records got a blow as the U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled that the NSA’s bulk metadata telephony surveillance is “likely unconstitutional” under the Fourth Amendment.The Judge said “likely” because this was a motion for a preliminary injunction, and the grounds for an injunction are based upon the plaintiff’s...

No government nod necessary to investigate public servants, says Supreme Court

The question which cropped up in the course of the ongoing hearing by the court in the coal scam, that whether central government's prior sanction under section 6A of the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act was necessary before a public servant could be proceeded against, has been answered by a Supreme Court bench of Justice R M Lodha and Justice Kurian Joseph. The bench has said that a...

Supreme Court warns the States of Contempt for Non-implementation of POCSO, RTE and NCPCR ACTs

Supreme Court has said that in spite of the emphatic directions that have been issued by it on 3rd January, 2013 directing all the States and the Union Territories to implement the protective provisions contained in the Protection of Rights of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 and the Commission for Protection of Child...

Supreme Court’s current procedure of inviting applications for the clerkships unconstitutional, rules Delhi High Court

The Supreme Court’s current procedure which allows only national law university graduates and graduates from universities which are sanctioned by the Supreme Court to apply for the annual law-clerk openings in the court, have been held as unconstitutional by Justice Rajiv Shakdher of the Delhi High Court, in W.P(C) No; 360/2013, stated that the Supreme Court must change its policy of...

One year since Nirbhaya case: Verdict on appeal likely in January

Almost one year after the horrific gangrape of a young paramedic student who was not only raped but brutally assaulted by six men in a moving private bus which shook the country, the Delhi High Court which has been hearing appeals of the four accused and arguments on the death sentence on a daily basis in the sensational case, will pronounce its verdict, most likely in January.According to...

BREAKING; “The judge did not remove his hand from my back, and then moved forward to embrace me” “When I tried to move away, he kissed my arm and repeated that he loved me." The law intern says in her affidavit

Additional Solicitor General, Indira Jaisingh who wrote a letter to the Prime Minister for initiating action for removal of Justice A K Ganguly as the chairman of WBHRC revealed the important portions of the affidavit given by the victim in the sexual harassment case before the Supreme Court panel."When I reached the suite, there were two other persons apart from the judge present there. I...