Breaking: Arrests Target Political Dissent, Justice Chandrachud Berates Police In Bhima Koregaon Arrests [Read Judgment]

Justice D Y Chandrachud expressed a strong dissent in the Bhima Koregaon case to hold the arrests of five activists to be wholly baseless and politically motivated. While the majority of CJI Dipak Misra and Justice A M Khanwilkar turned down the plea for a probe by Special Investigation Team, Justice Chandrachud opined that an SIT was necessary as Maharashtra police was biased in the...

Breaking:Not A Case Of Arrest For Dissent, SC Turns Down Plea For SIT In Bhima Koregaon Case By 2:1 Majority, Chandrachud.J Dissents [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court on Friday, in a majority judgment authored by Justice A. M. Khanwilkar on behalf of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and himself, declined the prayer for a SIT probe into the Bhima-Koregaon violence and the chain of events leading to it.The judgment was rendered on a PIL filed by historian Romila Thapar and four other eminent persons challenging the alleged-unlawful arrest on August...

Breaking :Rationality Has No Place in Matters Of Faith : Justice Indu Malhotra Opposes Women Entry In Sabarimala [Read Judgment]

In a sharp dissent, Justice Indu Malhotra, the lone woman in the Constitution Bench which heard the Sabarimala matter, has opposed the entry of women of all age groups in the temple.She opined that issues of deep religious sentiments should not be ordinarily be interfered by the Court. The Sabarimala shrine and the deity has the protection under Articles 25 and 26 of the Constitution...

Breaking: Devotion Cannot Be Subjected To Gender Discrimination, SC Allows Women Entry In Sabarimala By 4:1 Majority; Lone Woman In The Bench Dissents [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court has delivered one of the most keenly awaited judgment in Sabarimala case. by a 4:1 majority, the Court has permitted entry of women of all age groups to the Sabarimala temple, holding that 'devotion cannot be subjected to gender discrimination'.The lone woman in the bench, Justice Indu Malhotra, dissented.Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice R F Nariman, Justice A M Khanwilkar...

Adulterous Woman Can’t Be Treated As Victim And The Man, Seducer: Justice Indu Malhotra on Striking Down S.497IPC

Sec. 497IPC Can’t Be Called Beneficial Legislation, Can’t Take Cover Under Protective Discrimination Of Art. 15(3)It perpetuates stereotype, deprives women her right to prosecute.Striking Section 497IPC for not being gender-neutral, Justice Indu Malhotra has said in her part of the judgement that it would be unrealistic to proceed on the basis that even in a consensual sexual relationship...

Arrest Of Activists And Lawyers In Bhimakoregaon Case: SC To Pronounce Judgment Tomorrow [Read The Written Submissions For The Petitioners]

Supreme Court of India will pronounce the Judgment Tomorrow on petitions filed by Five eminent citizens led by Professor Romila Thapar against "arbitrary arrests" of human rights defenders including Sudha Bharadwaj and Gautam Navlakha citing "Maoist links" in the Bhimakoregaon case.Protesting the "arbitrary" arrests, the petition said the arrests were made without a shred of evidence and...

Differently-Abled/Visually-Impaired Persons Not To Be Deprived Of Benefits Of RTI Act: SC Asks Authorities To Explore Technology To Make Information Accessible To Them [Read Judgment]

“We say so as differently abled persons, which include visually impaired persons, should have the functional facility to receive such information as permissible under the Act.”The Supreme Court on Thursday disposed of a writ petition challenging Section 6 of the Right to Information Act for its ‘discrimination’ against the illiterate persons, the visually impaired persons or...

Patriarchy & Paternalism Underpinnings Of Section 497 IPC : Justice Chandrachud In Adultery Judgment [ Read Judgment]

The realities of human existence are too complex to place them in closed categories of right and wrong and to subject all that is considered wrong with the sanctions of penal law, observed Justice Chandrachud. The judgment of Justice Chandrachud in Joseph Shine v Union of India which decriminalized adultery is built upon the themes of 'constitutional morality', 'individual...

Section 497 Was Never Intended To Preserve ‘Sanctity Of Marriage’; It Demeans Or Degrades The Status Of A Woman By Likening Her To A Chattel: Justice RF Nariman [Read Judgment]

“What is clear, therefore, is that this archaic law has long outlived its purpose and does not square with today‘s constitutional morality, in that the very object with which it was made has since become manifestly arbitrary, having lost its rationale long ago and having become in today‘s day and age, utterly irrational.”Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman, in his concurring judgment in...

There Cannot Be Patriarchal Monarchy Over Daughter Or Husband’s Monarchy Over Wife: CJI Misra In Adultery Judgment [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down as unconstitutional, 158-year-old Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalizes adultery.The five-Judge Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and Justices R F Nariman, AM Khanwilkar, DY Chandrachud, and Indu Malhotra also declared as unconstitutional Section 198 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which deals with the procedure...

Breaking: Observations In Ismail Faruqui Need To Be Viewed In Context Of Land Acquisition Proceedings; Not Relevant In Ayodhya Title Dispute: SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court on Thursday, by a 2:1 majority, refused to refer the Ayodhya-Ram Janmabhoomi land dispute case to a larger bench. While the majority judgment was authored by Justice Ashok Bhushan, for himself and Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, Justice S. Abdul Nazeer delivered the dissenting opinion.The majority judgment clarified that the observations made in the Dr. M. Ismail...

Justice Chandrachud Does It Again, Overrules His Father's 33 Year Old Judgment On Adultery Law [Read Judgment]

Like father, unlike son!Justice D Y Chandrachud has done it again. While striking down criminalisation of adultery under Section 497 of IPC as unconstitutional, he has overruled his father's judgment which had upheld the section.In 1985, a judgment authored by Justice Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud, father of Justice Dhananjaya Chandrachud, in Sowmithri Vishnu vs.Union of India had upheld...