Tumakuru (Karnataka), July 4 (IANS) Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister G. Parameshwara on Saturday said that while the Constitution’s Preamble places strong emphasis on equality, there is a need for a serious assessment of the extent to which equality has been realised in society and within the legal system. He was addressing the graduation ceremony at a Law College in Shettihalli, Tumakuru. Referring to India’s progress since Independence, he said the country’s literacy rate has increased from …
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New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has directed the city government to pay Rs 18.44 lakh as compensation to the adoptive father of a 19-year-old man who died by suicide in police custody, holding that an unnatural custodial death, even if by suicide, attracts public law liability for violation of the fundamental right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution.In a judgment delivered on Wednesday, a single-judge Bench of Justice Sachin Datta held that the state, as custodian of life…
Gandhinagar, June 25 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Thursday described the Emergency imposed on June 25, 1975, as an attempt to crush the spirit of the Constitution and push the country into the “darkness of dictatorship”, marking the anniversary of one of the most contentious periods in independent India’s history.In a post on social media platform X, Patel said the Emergency represented a bid to undermine democratic institutions in the pursuit of power.“The Emergency im…
New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) Urging the Supreme Court to reconsider the 2018 Sabarimala judgment permitting entry of women of all age groups into the temple, the Union government on Tuesday told a nine-judge Constitution Bench that notions of “patriarchy” and “gender stereotypes” are alien to Indian Appearing for the Centre, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted before the Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant that Indian society has historically accorded w…
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has temporarily halted the distribution of its newly released Social Science textbook for Class 8 after certain inappropriate textual material and an error of judgement were found to have inadvertently appeared in Chapter 4, titled “The Role of Judiciary in our Society” (pages 125–142).The textbook, titled Exploring Society: India and Beyond, Volume II, was officially released on February 24, 2026, f…
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has flagged “serious concern” over inordinate delays in deciding bail pleas, observing that keeping such applications pending for long periods amounts to trauma for an incarcerated accused and violates fundamental rights. Granting regular bail to an accused in a 2021 murder case, a single-judge Bench of Justice Girish Kathpalia noted that the bail application had remained pending for 25 months before the trial court and continued to languish even…