Indian Legal System

'Indian legal system would never attend to sexual minorities with any urgency'

This is an extract from Gaysia, a book by Australian non-fiction author Benjamin Law. Law has written extensively for Australian and international publications. One chapter in Gaysia is devoted to India and its gay culture. The following excerpt looks at the way the movement to de-criminalise Section 377 began and its victory in the Delhi High Court in 2009.

Justice delivery system needs to become more affordable: Manish Tewari

High cost of litigation is not only keeping away poor from getting justice but even making it unaffordable for upper middle class, Union Minister Manish Tewari said, advocating that the justice delivery system in the country be made more affordable

Delhi gangrape: What is a 'rarest of rare' crime inviting the death penalty?

As an established rule, death penalty can only be awarded in the “rarest of the rare” cases. But since there is no statutory definition of what rarest of rare means, the debate on each death sentence punishment rages on.