Recently, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has had a productive diplomatic sojourn in New York. She met a larger number of foreign leaders on the margins of the UN General Assembly. There was one big missing link though.
One had hoped that the judiciary would show the way forward with regard to preventing candidates facing criminal charges from contesting elections, but in a recent judgment, the Supreme Court has left it to Parliament to legislate on the subject.
On September 28, the Supreme Court delivered a 4:1 verdict throwing open the doors of the Sabarimala temple to women of all ages. How deep must the judiciary’s inquiry go in deciding whether to intervene in matters of religion?
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Although India has made sizeable economic and social gains over the last two decades, the challenge of maternal and child undernutrition remains a national public health concern and a policy priority for the current government.
The Supreme Court’s ruling that the exclusionary practice violates the rights of women devotees establishes the legal principle that individual freedom prevails over purported group rights, even in matters of religion.
Recently, the Supreme Court delivered its pronouncement on the petitions asking it to bar politicians facing heinous criminal charges — like rape, murder and kidnapping — from contesting elections. The Court held that it cannot play the role of Parliament.
The Supreme Court has struck down as unconstitutional Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code that had criminalised adultery for 158 years.
Any further delay in ordering the release of the seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case will run the risk of the state falling foul of Article 14 of the Constitution which says that it “shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws”.
The Supreme Court has struck down a colonial-era law -Section 497 of the IPC- that made adultery punishable with a jail term and a fine. Now, it is only a ground for divorce.
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