Amina was a 16-year-old student in Dhaka when Pakistani army took her from her home. In a deliberate campaign of genocidal rape, Pakistani military personnel and the Razakars raped between 200,000 and 400,000 Bengali women and girls during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. Noor Jahan and her sister was 14 when she was abducted After 52 years, one of the …
For 72-year-old Noor Jahan, the last week has been tough. Following a notice from the administration of the historic Chennakeshava temple in Belur, she had to close her shop in the temple premises on March 28. As activists of Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal in Belur urged the temple administration to evict non-Hindu shopkeepers from the temple premises, the …
A three judge bench of the Supreme Court bench including Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, Justice. V Ramasubramanian dismissed the petition filed by Advocate Aldanish Rein for setting aside an Order passed by Allahabad High Court which held that conversion solely for the purpose of marriage are not valid in the eyes of Law. Subsequently a Division Bench of …
The right to live with a person of his or her choice irrespective of religion is intrinsic to the right to life and liberty. Interference in a personal relationship would constitute a serious encroachment into the right to freedom of choice of two individuals, the Allahabad High Court has noted. A Division Bench of Justices Pankaj Naqvi and Vivek Agarwal …
In an important ruling, the Allahabad High Court recently specifically observed that "Right to live with a person of his/her choice irrespective of religion professed by them, is intrinsic to right to life and personal liberty." Salamat Ansari and Priyanka Kharwar @ Alia along with two others moved the High Court seeking quashing of FIR under Sections 363, 366, 352, …