Delhi HC's ruling comes amid conflicting orders from various high courts on whether a minor Muslim girl can enter into a valid marriage, and applicability of POCSO Act to such cases.
In report submitted to apex court, Justice Gita Mittal panel has also proposed the inclusion of experts from think tank Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy for data reporting & monitoring.
Order by district & sessions judge came on a revision petition filed by a station house officer called to assist the court. His lawyer says it disrupted his daily policing duties.
CJI has suggested that the panel uses office in Delhi HC. The reports submitted by the committee deal with issues like loss of documents of Manipur citizens & compensation for victims.
The top court expressed displeasure over the Gujarat High Court adjourning the survivor’s plea for medical termination of her pregnancy, and said ‘valuable time’ has been lost.
In a special sitting Saturday, SC bench observes that there should be a sense of urgency in such cases, not treating the matter as any normal case and just adjourning it.
Additional Solicitor General S V Raju said commission of heinous crime does not debar one from benefits of remission, bench asked why jails are overcrowded, particularly by undertrials.
Court was hearing a woman’s appeal against a family court’s refusal to grant her divorce from husband whose neglect, she says, ranged from assault to not paying their kids' school fees.
SC bench agrees to hear matter again in 2 weeks, declines to stay anticipatory bail granted to an archbishop & a nun by HC on ground that NCPCR had no locus standi in the case.
HC observes items did not fall into category of ‘pre-packaged commodity’ to which the rules apply & are 'sold as loose articles and the customers are free to try or inspect the same'.
The attack on Chhayanaut, newspaper offices, and the public lynching of a Hindu man show that Bangladesh is heading toward Islamist rule, far removed from electoral democracy.
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.
If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.
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