The Orissa High Court has ordered an appellate authority to reconsider an appeal against denial of tribe certificate to a boy who was brought up by his tribal mother. While giving relief to the petitioner, the Single Judge Bench of Justice Arindam Sinha observed, “The appellate authority thereafter went on to take view that the Tahsildar had properly followed the …
The Delhi High Court has observed that merely because an act of sexual abuse results in tying of knot between the victim and the accused or in birth of a child, it does not mitigate the act of rape. It added that the consent of a minor is immaterial and inconsequential in law.Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta also added that the …
The Kerala High Court on Thursday granted bail to a 33-year-old woman suffering from multiple disabilities who allegedly dropped her newborn into a bucket of water, resulting into the infant's death. The infant was her sixth child, and reportedly a consequence of unintended pregnancy.Justice Gopinath P. released the woman on bail noting that her custodial interrogation may not be necessary …
Ruling that an extramarital affair of a woman cannot be used to define her as a bad mother, the Punjab and Haryana High Court handed over the custody of her four-and-a-half-year-old daughter to the woman on Wednesday. Even assuming a woman is or has been in an extramarital relationship, the same by itself cannot lead to the conclusion that she …
The Supreme Court bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari has issued notice on a petition filed by an eleven year old child raising the issue whether a school affiliated to an International Board will come under the purview of Right To Education Act, 2009. The petitioner, Master Rajpurohit Ridham Devichand, was a student of Ajmera Global School, …