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Sabarimala temple row: SC to hear Kerala woman's plea next week; activist Bindu Ammini had earlier said she was stopped from entering shrine
• 5 years agoThe Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear next week the plea of a Kerala woman who was allegedly prevented from visiting the Sabarimala temple despite the apex court's verdict allowing entry of women of all age groups into the shrine
SC to hear next week plea of woman barred from entering Sabarimala temple despite apex court's nod allowing women of all age groups to visit shrine
• 5 years agoRecently a woman activist, Bindu Ammini, and one Fathima have been prevented from entering Sabarimala temple even after five-judge Constitution bench, by majority of four is to one, in its verdict delivered in September last year, had allowed girls, women of all age groups to visit Sabarimala in Kerala
Compelling wife to 'cohabit' with husband violates fundamental rights; it's time SC reviewed Section 9 of Hindu Marriage Act
Raghav Pandey And Neelabh Bist • 6 years agoSupreme Court must reconsider the constitutional validity of Section 9 of the Hindu Marriage Act, which empowers courts in India to effectively force a person to live with their spouse against their will
MeToo movement, Sabarimala controversy: Tenets of feminism need a rethink as debate over gender equality deepens
Avani Bansal • 6 years agoThe MeToo movement, although far from perfect, has provided a tool, whereby women can bring the focus to the differences and their vulnerabilities without being dis-empowered by them.
Section 377 verdict: Companies, executives see Supreme Court's judgment as push for equality within workforce
Fp Staff • 7 years agoSupreme Court has termed part of Section 377 of Indian Penal Code which criminalises consensual unnatural sex as irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary
Supreme Court's verdict on Section 377 must spark further legal changes to end alienation of LGBT community
Natasha Maheshwari • 7 years agoMembers of the LGBT community are deprived of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution.
Supreme Court calls adultery provision in IPC a 'peculiar law', says it fails test of arbitrariness
Fp Staff • 7 years ago“Both parties in adultery derive the benefit of the act. Despite that, one is treated as a victim and another punished. There is no rationality in it. The provision is a reflection of the times it was drafted," Chief Justice Dipak Misra observed.
SC refuses to make adultery gender-neutral crime, will examine whether IPC section violates Right to Equality
Fp Staff • 7 years agoEarlier in July, the Centre had filed an affidavit opposing a plea that seeks to make men and women equally liable for the crime of adultery.
Aadhaar hearing: Petitioners argue that Aadhaar is an RTI Act for the State and violates right against self-incrimination
Asheeta Regidi • 7 years agoThe Bench observed that this exclusion caused by Aadhaar is a ground for violation of Article 14, the right to equality, indicating grounds for its unconstitutionality.
Uttar Pradesh’s Organised Crime Control Bill gives Yogi Adityanath government a tool for state terror and police excess
Sauravdatta • 7 years agoThe Uttar Pradesh Control of Organised Crime Bill proposed by Yogi Adityanath government contains provisions which flagrantly contravene essential guarantees against the application of criminal law as laid down in the Constitution, and if passed could send the state closer to a reign of lawlessness and terror