A colloquium on crimes against women, focusing on persistent witch-hunting in Jharkhand, stressed the need for stricter law enforcement and a stronger focus on rehabilitation of victims on Saturday.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Saturday strongly opposed the proposed Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, alleging that the legislation undermines the constitutional rights of transgender persons and violates the principle of self-determination of gender identity recognised by the Supreme Court.
Almost two decades after the Mediation and Conciliation Project Committee (MCPC) recommended mediation as an approach to settle disputes outside courts, the Government of India after much deliberation among stakeholders, enacted the Mediation Act 2023, on 15 September 2023.
In its endeavours towards creating awareness against drug abuse in the state, the Himachal Pradesh State Legal Services Authority, on…
Nadia district witnessed an achievement of sorts in the field of justice delivery as over 1,500 pending and pre-litigation cases were settled in the second National Lok Adalat 2023.
The court also asked the UP government to do something about the overflowing drains in Agra, especially in the TTZ zone.
The trans community feels betrayed and questions the bill for most of its clauses one of which asks for an application to District Magistrate for legal recognition of one's transgender identity.
It was in the morning hours of 1 January 2018 , that the victim girl, 22, from Khandi Dangriguda village was going to Kalampur to attend computer classes.
Transgender-related issues have come to occupy centre stage and are acknowledged within our social and cultural framework, though social policies…
Absence of timely help to poor and illiterate Indians affects the credibility of the legal system and the rule of…
