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"Rape Violates Fundamental Rights": Gauhati High Court On 2009 Case
The Gauhati High Court on Monday said rape was a violation of an individual's right to life and personal liberty, as it relied on the statement of a rape survivor to uphold the order a lower court and find the accused guilty
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Vaiko Files Plea In Madras High Court To Quash Lower Court Order
MDMK chief Vaiko has moved the Madras High Court, seeking to quash the order of a lower court, which convicted him of sedition in a 2009 case and sentenced him to undergo simple imprisonment for a year.
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Will Examine Correctness Of 2013 Verdict On Gay Sex, Says Supreme Court
A 150-year-old law that prescribes a life term in jail for gay sex is under spotlight as a five-judge Constitution Bench started hearing a bunch of petitions that call for its scrapping. The bench, however, said it would only examine the "correctness" of its verdict of 2013, which cancelled a Delhi High Court judgment that said the law criminalizin...
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Restore Police Complaint Against Ex-CIA Station Chief: Pakistan Court To Police
A court in Pakistan on Monday ordered restoration of an FIR against a former CIA station chief for his alleged role in killing civilians in the country's tribal region in a drone attack, officials said.
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Supreme Court To Revisit 2013 Verdict Criminalising Gay Sex: 10 Points
Whether homosexuality should be a crime in India will be reexamined by the Supreme Court, which had in 2013 restored a controversial British-era ban on gay sex. No one should have to live in fear because of their sexuality, said three Supreme Court judges including Chief Justice Dipak Misra today, asking a larger group of judges to review Section 3...
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Manipur Court Orders Compensation To Mother Of 'Fake Encounter' Victim
The High Court of Manipur has ordered the state government to pay Rs 5 lakh as solatium to the mother of Naoba Ngangbam, the victim of a 2009 "fake encounter".
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Calcutta High Court's Justice Karnan Makes History, Gets Top Court's Contempt Notice: 10 Facts
The Supreme Court today slapped a contempt notice on a Calcutta High Court judge, Justice CS Karnan, after the top court decided to initiate the case on its own against the judge for continuously leveling allegations against former and sitting judges. This is the first time that a sitting high court judge faces a contempt case. But Justice Karnan -...
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Why Tata Is Depositing $1.2 Billion With A Delhi Court
Tata Sons Ltd said it expected to deposit $1.2 billion with the Delhi High Court on Friday, the money it was ordered to pay Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc by an international arbitration court last month.
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If Centre Wants, It Can Use Majority to Decriminalise Homosexuality: LGBTQ Activists
The Centre has a majority that it can use to decriminalise homosexuality and enable social cover for members of the LGBTQ community if it has the will, activists said on Thursday, the anniversary of the Delhi High Court's landmark 2009 order that effectively decriminalised homosexuality.
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Delhi High Court Issues Notice to Prithviraj Chavan on Election Commision Plea
The Delhi High Court today issued notice to former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on a plea against its single bench decision setting aside the Election Commission's order holding him guilty of filing incorrect expenses for the 2009 Assembly elections.
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Supreme Court says gay sex is illegal, only government can change law
The Supreme Court has ruled that gay sex is a criminal offense, a verdict that is a major setback for human rights in the world's biggest democracy.
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Supreme Court verdict on plea against decriminalising gay sex likely today
The top court will deliver its order on petitions challenging the landmark Delhi High Court judgment of 2009 decriminalising homosexuality.
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Madurai: High Court dismisses constable's plea
Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has dismissed the plea of a Grade I constable challenging a government order reverting him to the grade after promoting him as head constable complying with a 2009 directive of the court.
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Homosexuality, lesbian relationships unnatural, Supreme Court told
The Supreme Court on Wednesday was told that homosexuality and lesbian relationship were unnatural and against the order of nature as provided under the Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Senior counsel Amarendra Saran told the court during the hearing on a batch of petitions challenging the Delhi High Court's July 2, 2009 verdict holding ...
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"Rape Violates Fundamental Rights": Gauhati High Court On 2009 Case
The Gauhati High Court on Monday said rape was a violation of an individual's right to life and personal liberty, as it relied on the statement of a rape survivor to uphold the order a lower court and find the accused guilty
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Vaiko Files Plea In Madras High Court To Quash Lower Court Order
MDMK chief Vaiko has moved the Madras High Court, seeking to quash the order of a lower court, which convicted him of sedition in a 2009 case and sentenced him to undergo simple imprisonment for a year.
-
Will Examine Correctness Of 2013 Verdict On Gay Sex, Says Supreme Court
A 150-year-old law that prescribes a life term in jail for gay sex is under spotlight as a five-judge Constitution Bench started hearing a bunch of petitions that call for its scrapping. The bench, however, said it would only examine the "correctness" of its verdict of 2013, which cancelled a Delhi High Court judgment that said the law criminalizin...
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Restore Police Complaint Against Ex-CIA Station Chief: Pakistan Court To Police
A court in Pakistan on Monday ordered restoration of an FIR against a former CIA station chief for his alleged role in killing civilians in the country's tribal region in a drone attack, officials said.
-
Supreme Court To Revisit 2013 Verdict Criminalising Gay Sex: 10 Points
Whether homosexuality should be a crime in India will be reexamined by the Supreme Court, which had in 2013 restored a controversial British-era ban on gay sex. No one should have to live in fear because of their sexuality, said three Supreme Court judges including Chief Justice Dipak Misra today, asking a larger group of judges to review Section 3...
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Manipur Court Orders Compensation To Mother Of 'Fake Encounter' Victim
The High Court of Manipur has ordered the state government to pay Rs 5 lakh as solatium to the mother of Naoba Ngangbam, the victim of a 2009 "fake encounter".
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Calcutta High Court's Justice Karnan Makes History, Gets Top Court's Contempt Notice: 10 Facts
The Supreme Court today slapped a contempt notice on a Calcutta High Court judge, Justice CS Karnan, after the top court decided to initiate the case on its own against the judge for continuously leveling allegations against former and sitting judges. This is the first time that a sitting high court judge faces a contempt case. But Justice Karnan -...
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Why Tata Is Depositing $1.2 Billion With A Delhi Court
Tata Sons Ltd said it expected to deposit $1.2 billion with the Delhi High Court on Friday, the money it was ordered to pay Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc by an international arbitration court last month.
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If Centre Wants, It Can Use Majority to Decriminalise Homosexuality: LGBTQ Activists
The Centre has a majority that it can use to decriminalise homosexuality and enable social cover for members of the LGBTQ community if it has the will, activists said on Thursday, the anniversary of the Delhi High Court's landmark 2009 order that effectively decriminalised homosexuality.
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Delhi High Court Issues Notice to Prithviraj Chavan on Election Commision Plea
The Delhi High Court today issued notice to former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on a plea against its single bench decision setting aside the Election Commission's order holding him guilty of filing incorrect expenses for the 2009 Assembly elections.
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Supreme Court says gay sex is illegal, only government can change law
The Supreme Court has ruled that gay sex is a criminal offense, a verdict that is a major setback for human rights in the world's biggest democracy.
-
Supreme Court verdict on plea against decriminalising gay sex likely today
The top court will deliver its order on petitions challenging the landmark Delhi High Court judgment of 2009 decriminalising homosexuality.
-
Madurai: High Court dismisses constable's plea
Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has dismissed the plea of a Grade I constable challenging a government order reverting him to the grade after promoting him as head constable complying with a 2009 directive of the court.
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Homosexuality, lesbian relationships unnatural, Supreme Court told
The Supreme Court on Wednesday was told that homosexuality and lesbian relationship were unnatural and against the order of nature as provided under the Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Senior counsel Amarendra Saran told the court during the hearing on a batch of petitions challenging the Delhi High Court's July 2, 2009 verdict holding ...
