India’s 3,000-strong public defender network has handled 1 million+ criminal cases in 3 yrs, but lawyers say crushing workloads, staff shortages, job insecurity may leave them in limbo.
New Delhi: Nearly a decade after the Supreme Court’s landmark NALSA judgment and five years after Parliament enacted the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act,...
Data accessed by ThePrint shows 8,103 matrimonial cases saw successful mediation in the special drive (July-September), followed by cheque-bounce matters & compoundable criminal cases.
NALSA’s new SOP targets child marriage with legal action, community support, and rehabilitation—but its success hinges on political will, trained officials, and grassroots change.
New Delhi: In an effort to reduce workload for courts, a mechanism is being developed to encourage out-of-court mediation. The National Legal Services Authority...
Reasons listed by legal aid body include ‘unintended lapses’, detention of mentally ill undertrials despite safeguards, limited use of liberal bail provisions for women & the infirm.
More than 80% of India’s 1.3 billion people are eligible for legal aid. But only 15 million have benefitted from it since NALSA was established in 1995.
Apoorva Mukhija got rape threats and FIRs for retorting to a comment about her body on India’s Got Latent. Pranit More got a rap on the knuckles for Rs 370 biryani clip. It’s hypocrisy 101.
Long-drawn dispute involves complaints that Linde India had allegedly unfairly hived off a potentially lucrative business to unlisted subsidiary without approval of all shareholders.
The central curse of our urban governance isn’t that more voters live in these slummified villages. It’s that the political class panders to them instead of improving their quality of life.
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