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After Law, now Home backs Court ruling on gay...
Mumbai :: India | 3 months ago
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The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has decided against opposing the July 2 judgment of the Delhi High Court striking down provisions in Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) that criminalised same-gender, consensual sex. The Union Government is...
Tags: Delhi High Court
SC allows CVC probe at Prasar Bharati
New Delhi :: India | 3 months ago
Credibility While allowing the Central Vigilance Commission inquiry, a Supreme Court Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan stayed the other part of the High Court order, which said that said that the day-to-day functioning of Prasar Bharati will be carried...
Tags: Prasar Bharati, Delhi High Court
Veerappa Moily praises gay sex ruling
New Delhi :: India | 4 months ago
Credibility The Delhi High Court verdict de-criminalising sex between consenting adults of the same sex has been highly acclaimed by union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily as a "well-documented and well-researched" ruling on a difficult subject that stands out "in...
Indian court throws out objection to athletes' village
Chennai :: India | 4 months ago
Credibility CHENNAI: India's Supreme Court threw out a petition on Thursday that threatened to scupper New Delhi hosting next year's Commonwealth Games. The athletes' village being built on the banks of the Yamuna, one of India's major rivers flowing through the...
Tags: Delhi High Court
Court allows Indian Games village
New Delhi :: India | 4 months ago
Credibility The court overruled a Delhi High Court order that had put the restrictions in place because of environmental worries. Officials have warned that the country could miss out on hosting the games unless construction work gains pace. They argued that a dispute...
Tags: Supreme Court of India, The Supreme Court, Delhi High Court, Yamuna, Zeenews Bureau New Delhi, KG Balakrishnan
Legal fraternity hails conviction of R K Anand
New Delhi :: India | 4 months ago
Credibility The legal fraternity on Wednesday hailed the Supreme Court verdict on the BMW expose case holding noted criminal lawyer R K Anand guilty of contempt of court, saying it is good for the profession and would help clean up the system. Noted criminal lawyers...
Tags: Supreme Court, bmw hit, noted criminal, Delhi High Court, criminal lawyer, R.K. Anand
The underdog is not always the wronged party
New Delhi :: India | 4 months ago
Credibility Reporting on human rights violations is an important part of journalism, but sometimes there is a lack of discrimination in the causes that we champion. I, for one, was skeptical from the start of the allegation that the shootout at Batla House in Delhi,...
Tags: Delhi High Court, Batla House, house encounter, Delhi Police, New Delhi
Another mishap at Metro site, one killed
New Delhi :: India | 4 months ago
Credibility Delhi Wednesday, just 10 days after six people were killed at another metro construction site. However, the corporation said the latest accident was not "major". The incident took place at the under-construction Ashok Park metro station in west Delhi...
Tags: Delhi Metro Rail, Gammon India, chief engineering, Metro Rail Corporation, general consulted, Delhi High Court, E Sreedharan, deputy chief, cantilever piers, west Delhi
India court upholds conviction
New Delhi :: India | 4 months ago
Credibility The court, however, reduced Nanda's sentence from five to three years. Nanda, who was accused of driving while drunk, was found guilty last year of running over and killing six people in Delhi in January 1999. His lawyers now say they will appeal against...
Tags: Sanjeev Nanda, Delhi High Court, M Nanda, Renu Nanda, jail terming, bmw hit, Supreme Court, culpability homicide
Court refuses to stay gay sex order
New Delhi :: India | 4 months ago
Credibility The Supreme Court on Monday refused to suspend a Delhi High Court ruling decriminalising consensual homosexuality in private between two adults, maintaining that the ruling has no "penal consequences" and also does not approve of adultery or incestuous...
Tags: Delhi High Court, gay sex, The Supreme Court, consenting adults, apex court, India
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