Fast forward to 2024, you are met by the case of Katiba Institute (On its Own Behalf and on Behalf of all Individuals Arrested, Charged or Convicted of Robbery with Violence or Attempted Robbery With Violence Since 15th March, 2018) v Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions & 5 othe...
“We wish to point out with all the emphasis at our command that public interest litigation which is a strategic arm of the legal aid movement and which is intended to bring justice within the reach of the poor masses, who constitute the low visibility area of humanity, is a totally differ...
By concluding that the offence needed something more than merely being a member, the 2011 judgments had inserted a measure of fairness in line with what the Supreme Court had done in a variety of contexts in the past; none of those judgments being constitutional litigations with the Union of ...
Indian Young Lawyers Association had filed a Writ Petition challenging the validity of Rule 3(b) of the Kerala Hindu Places of Worship (Authorization of Entry) Rules, 1965 and sought directions to State of Kerala to permit female devotees between the ages of 10 to 50 years to enter Sabarimal...
makeszeroeffort to engage with either of these “serious allegations.” There is no question of evidence, of burden of proof, of sifting arguments, of legal standards – the things that you expect from a “Court of law” – there are only these “serious allegations”, simply hanging there...
Applying this to the facts of the case, the bench of Oka and Rastogi JJ note that on the basis of the evidence in the police chargesheet, taken at the highest, “it can be said that the material prima facie establishesassociationof the accused with a terrorist organisation CPI (Maoist) ...
that in view of the fact that only 12% of Indian women use sanitary pads (and the other 88% have to make do with alternatives), in the Indian context perhaps sanitary padsareluxuries: to answer this objection, we would need to consider both women’s testimony, and scientific evidence, on...