GENDER INEQUALITY – PAST ISSUES AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES RIGHT TO EQUALITY ( ARTICLE 14 – 17 ) The right to equality provides for the equal treatment of everyone before the law. It prevents gender inequality and discrimination on various grounds, treats everybody as equals in matters of public employment, and abolishes untouchability. The constitution of…
PORNOGRAPHIC MOVIE -10 LAKH FINE & 7 YEARS JAIL Man is the most rational living being in this world. His attitude changes from time to time. His likes and dislikes change accordingly. Same in the case of his sexual fantasies also. Reports state that around 60% of India’s youth are addicted to various adult videos as…
THE NARCOTIC DRUGS AND PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, ACT, 1985 Under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act 1985 of India, it is illegal for a person to produce/manufacture/cultivate, possess, sell, purchase, transport, store, and/or consume any narcotic drug or psychotropic substance. Under one of the provisions of the act, the Narcotics Control Bureau was set up with effect from…
TRANSGENDER- A SENSITIVE GLOSSARY Most of us have never thought much, if at all, about what it might be like to be a transgender, or to have a child who…
PROS & CONS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT, 2000 The Information Technology Act, 2000 also Known as an IT Act is an act proposed by the Indian Parliament reported on 17th October 2000. This Information…
LOVE JIHAD– POLITICAL & SOCIAL MIRRORS Gujarat Assembly passed the ‘Love Jihad’ bill that amends the Freedom of Religion Act and penalises the act of forceful conversion of the religion of women on the pretext of marriage. The bill that amends the 2003 Freedom of Religion Act seeks to curb the “emerging trend…
The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in its Judgment titled as Bajaj Alliance General Insurance Company Ltd. v/s Union of India & Ors Writ Petition No.534/2020 dated 16.3.2021 passed a number of directions regarding disbursement of compensation as well as speedy disposal of cases pending before the various MACTs. These directions are reproduced below: …
The Honourable Supreme Court of India has reappraised law relating to transfer petitions, in transfer petition number 262 of 2018. The judgement titled as Swaati Nirkhi & Ors Vs State (NCT of Delhi ) & Ors was pronounced on March 09, 2021. The petition has been dismissed on the ground that most of the prosecution…
A liability under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 is fastened on a person who is signatory to the cheque and cheque is drawn by that person on an account maintained by him. And the cheque has been issued for the discharge of liability. The discharge is in whole or in part of…
Reply: After the decision of Hon’ble Supreme of India in Maharshi Dayanand University Vs Surjeet Kaur (2010)11 SCC 159, it has been held that educational institutions are not a commodity. Educational institutions are not providing any kind of service, therefore, in the matter of admission, fees et cetera, there cannot be a question of deficiency…