New Delhi: Over three months after the Supreme Court “set aside” the practice of instant triple talaq or Talaq-e-Biddat, the Centre has drawn up a draft law which makes it a “cognizable and non-bailable” offence, punishable with three years jail and a monetary fine. The draft law — Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage)…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that using casteist remarks over phone in a public place against the SC and ST category would amount to criminal offence warranting a jail of a maximum five years. The Apex Court refused to stay the criminal proceedings and quash an FIR lodged against a person, who allegedly…
Mysuru: Demanding immediate implementation of Supreme Court order on SC/ST job promotion, AHIMSA (Kannada acronym for Minorities, Backward Classes and General Category) Vedike will take out a massive demonstration in Bengaluru tomorrow (Nov.10). Speaking to SOM, the vedike Secretary K. Govindaiah said that the Supreme Court has struck down the consequential seniority in job promotion…
The lead front page news on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017 reads “Speed up trial of politicians, says SC.” Well, to whom is the gentle suggestion? To politicians? I mean to the Government run by the politicians? If so the Supreme Court is chasing a charade. The Court was hearing a PIL by a BJP leader…
Mysuru: Over 8,000 people from the district would participate in the protest rally to be held on Oct. 31 in Bengaluru urging the Government to implement the judgement made by the Supreme Court regarding promotion reservation policy. Disclosing this at a press meet held at Pathrakartara Bhavan here yesterday, Dr. K.N. Chandrashekar, Hon. President, Ahimsa…
New Delhi: Sex with a wife below 18 is rape, the Supreme Court said today, ending an exception in the law for men married to girls who are above 15 despite the ban on child marriage. “If a man has sexual intercourse with a wife who is below 18 years, it is an offence. The…
New Delhi: Dy.SP M.K. Ganapathy’s ghost has returned to haunt Bengaluru Development Minister K.J. George, with the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday ordering a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into Ganapathy’s mysterious death and asked them to conclude the investigation within three months. The Police Officer killed himself at a lodge in Madikeri (Kodagu) on…
Dy.SP M.K. Ganapathy could have shot himself with his revolver, but why did he choose to hang himself? What was the mystery behind the bullets found in his room? What was the role of the reporter who interviewed him before the Dy.SP hanging himself? Why was the reporter’s statement not recorded as part of…
New Delhi: After passing a landmark judgement declaring Triple Talaq unconstitutional on Aug. 22, the Supreme Court delivered yet another judgement this morning upholding the Right to Privacy as “a Fundamental Right.” A nine-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice J.S. Khehar unanimously ruled that “Right to privacy is an intrinsic part of Right to…
New Delhi: In a landmark and a far-reaching order empowering millions of Muslim women, the Supreme Court this morning struck down the controversial Islamic divorce practice of instant triple talaq, saying it was arbitrary and against the tenets of Islam. “It is illegal, unworthy and retrograde and is not integral to religious practice and violates…
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