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'Anath' Not Stigmatic: Bombay High Court Dismisses PIL To Change Nomenclature For Orphans In Govt Records
Sharmeen Hakim
15 Sept 2022 5:30 PM IST
Observing that there was no stigma attached to the word "anath", the Bombay High Court on Thursday dismissed a PIL seeking to change the nomancleature for an orphan in Government records from "anath" to "swanath" or self-made. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Madhav Jamdar said that courts must be alive to the laxman rekha within which they must function. "We find...
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