In the case ofNavtej Singh Johar v. Union of India, the court held that consensual sexual relations between adults were not criminal; the prohibition was held to violate an array of rights including equality, life, liberty, dignity, expression, autonomy, identity and privacy. The ...
This “dog-in-the-manger” attitude has reduced the enclaves to poverty and despair, countenanced violence and oppression, fostered corruption, and encouraged the problems of criminal dens and drug-cultivation in the enclaves. The second option is an enclave exchange. Inhabitants should be given ...
At the same time, permanently residing foreign nationals are supposed to be equal under the law and have equal access to all processes of civil and criminal justice. (As may be expected though from human frailty, even the federal courts of the USA can be notorious in their injustice and ...
A Hindu sect (BAPS) with close ties to India’s ruling BJP has exploited hundreds of low-caste men in a years-long construction project, reports theNew York Times. A US federal lawsuit filed against the Hindu group alleges that the men brought to the United States under religious R-1 vi...
The 2011 rules take censorship — the easy way out of failing to balance freedom of expression and maintaining stability — to the next level. “They [the amendments] make it easy to file criminal complaints,” Trivedi told Index. “Without these rules it would not have been possible to ban...
Provisions like the suspension and interception of messages, already enforced under previous laws like the Indian Telegraph Act, will be effective. New provisions under the 2023 Act address user duties, criminalizing actions like tampering with telecom identifiers, and establishing regulatory san...
but there is no consensus on how to mesh India’s identity with that of Pakistan’s. Indians do not know whether they want to play cricket and trade with Pakistan, or whether they want to destroy it. There is still no consensus on talking with Pakistan: sometimes the government and its ...
after months of insisting they were good for farmers. Ministers also agreed to discuss farmers’ other demands, including guaranteed prices for produce and a withdrawal of criminal cases against protesting farmers, and provide compensation to the families of dozens of farmers who died during the...
Goldman Sachs criminal case over 1MDB formally ends Reuters A U.S. judge on Monday formally ended the U.S. government’s criminal case against Goldman Sachs related to the Wall Street bank’s work for the Malaysian fund 1MDB after it met its obligations and paid $2.9 billion in penalties...
There is a systemic anti-Muslim bias in the criminal justice system of India, particularly in Gujarat, that makes it extremely difficult for any Muslim accused to get a free trial. In this particular instance, Justice Bannerjee, various human rights activists and lawyers have argued that it was...