A landmark reminder by the Apex Court that laws meant to protect children should not destroy families. The Kirubakaran case shows why India needs a more humane, context-based POCSO framework. The Supreme Court of India quashes POCSO the conviction of a man sentenced under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act in aâŚ
The Supreme Court criticized a slams mother for dragging her daughter into a parental conflict and appointed former Uttarakhand Chief Justice Ritu Bahri as mediator to resolve the custody dispute peacefully. NEW DELHI: In a bitter child custody dispute, the Supreme Court of India has appointed former Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice Ritu Bahri asâŚ
The Supreme Court has overturned the Himachal Pradesh High Courtâs ruling that gave tribal daughters inheritance rights under the Hindu Succession Act, stating that no Central Government notification exists for such application. The Court emphasized that law cannot be stretched beyond Parliamentâs limits, even for gender equality. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court of India hasâŚ
Justice Surya Kant of the Supreme Court of India called it an âuncomfortable truthâ that marriage has historically been misused to subjugate women. Speaking on family law trends, he said legal and social reforms are slowly turning marriage into a dignified partnership of equals, and reaffirmed that foreign divorce judgments obtained by fraud or againstâŚ
The Allahabad High Court ruled that sex with a wife above 16 years old before 2017 does not amount to rape. The court cancelled a 2007 conviction, referring to the Supreme Courtâs 2017 Independent Thought decision. UTTAR PRADESH: The Allahabad High Court has recently ruled that a man cannot be convicted of rape for havingâŚ
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