‘No Toilet At Home Amounts To Cruelty’: Family Court Grants Divorce

A Family Court in Rajasthan’s Bhilawara District has reportedly granted a woman’s plea for divorce, ruling that absence of a toilet at home amounts to cruelty.“Has it ever pained us that our mothers and sisters have to go to defecate in the open? Women in villages have to wait for dark to venture out in order to relieve and as a result has to bear with physical pain… It is an irony...

Delhi HC Asks Centre To Implement National Policy For Rare Diseases [Read Order]

Continuing to ensure aid to patients suffering from rare diseases, the Delhi High Court has asked the Centre to take urgent steps to make the National Policy for Treatment of Rare Diseases functional at the ground level.“This Court is of the view that urgent steps need to be taken by the Ministry to make the National Policy functional at the ground level. This Court directs the Ministry...

The Right To Health – Uneasy Silence

Diseases and mishaps must have had their grip over humans ever since they came into existence. The disablement, disfigurement and loss of life caused due to illness has alarmed human race. The multiple sources causing such agonies are both external and internal ranging from nature’s wrath to lack of proper hygiene. If the human race is to survive and progress preservation of good health is a must. Though personal hygiene can to a large extent ward off ordinary ailments caused due to lack of...

Kerala HC Passes Strong Strictures Against CBFC For Not Reviewing The Film ‘Ka Bodyscapes’ In Accordance With Its Orders

CBFC is repeatedly invoking the ire of the Kerala High Court for its refusal to review the movie ‘Ka Bodyscapes’ for certification. Though facing the threat of contempt proceedings from the Kerala High Court, the CBFC does not seem to be having the intention to comply with the directions of the Court in full spirit. The Court had earlier directed the Board itself to review the movie,...

Senior Designation Can’t Be Claimed As A Matter Of Right: Kerala HC (DB) [Read Judgment]

It is a subjective decision, though based on objective considerations, the bench observed.Affirming the single bench judgment that rejected plea of an advocate challenging the full court decision rejecting his application for designation as senior advocate, the division bench of High Court of Kerala observed that an advocate can neither consider it to be his right to be declared as a...

PIL Filed In Delhi HC Against ‘Blue Whale Challenge’ [Read Petition]

A public interest litigation was filed before the Delhi High Court on Wednesday against lethal online game ‘Blue whale challenge’, which is leading its participants to commit suicide.The PIL was mentioned by advocate Gurmeet Singh before Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shanker seeking directions to internet companies to take down the links of ‘Blue Whale’,...

PIL In Allahabad HC Seeks Court-Monitored CBI Probe Into Gorakhpur Tragedy [Read Petition]

A public interest litigation has been filed before the Allahabad High Court demanding a court-monitored time-bound CBI probe into the Gorakhpur tragedy, in which over 65 children have died since last Thursday at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College, to identify the cause of the deaths and the guilty.The PIL, filed by the Youth Bar Association of India and advocates Saksham Srivastava and...

Hate Message : Jharkhand HC Grants Anticipatory Bail To WhatsApp Admin [Read Judgment]

The Jharkhand High Court recently granted anticipatory bail to Admin of a WhatsApp group, in a case registered against them under Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalizes deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings.The Applicant was one of the  Admin of a WhatsApp group named ‘Law Firm’, and was embroiled in a controversy after it was alleged...

CICERO -The Greatest Lawyer Of All Times

70 years of India’s independence is a mean achievement. The contribution of the lawyers in the independence movement, the framing of our Constitution and ultimately successfully working a democratic constitution has been immense and unparalleled . Perhaps this is the appropriate time to remember the greatest lawyer of all times Marcus Tullius Cicero (106BC –43 BC).Cicero perhaps the greatest orator, lived in a time when the Republic, its Senate and its democratic society was under threat by men...

The Un-Swach Bharat

2 Brothers Die While Cleaning Sewer at East Delhi Mall” - two days ahead of our 70th Independence Day celebration", the newspapers report of these bonded lives for whom freedom is alien. They remain in the clutches of slavery doing manual scavenging, which has been declared to be “disgraceful” and “prima facie a contravention of human rights and the right to live with dignity” by the Courts.Post two legislations since 1993, the practice is still widespread and according to the India Census 2011,...

Unlocking The MOP Lockjam

In our democracy, the final judges will be laymen like me, and all the millions like me, who don’t read that Constitution regularly, who don’t study all the interpretations of it and who may not even understand everything it says. We’ll be the judges of the effectiveness of the Constitution and the wisdom of the laws written under it and the integrity of your profession - Lee IacoccaIt was November 1996 when Chief  Justice P.N.Bhagwati made a momentous statement in his Law Day address, "I am...

UGC, JNU Violating Supreme Court Orders On UID/ Aadhaar

Disregarding previous court orders and unmindful of the June 9, 2017, verdict of Justice A K Sikri-headed bench of the Supreme Court on 12-digit biometric Unique Identification (UID)/Aadhaar, Dr Sajjan Singh, Assistant Registrar (Evaluation), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), has failed to modify a circular dated April 20, 2017, on the subject of “inscription of Unique ID/Aadhaar number and photograph in marksheets and degree certificates”. The circular referred to a letter from the University...