Following is a guest post from Rahela Khorakiwala, who completed her LL.B. from Government Law College, Mumbai and is currently doing her LL.M. at NYU School of Law. ———————————————————————– The key concepts of the Equal …
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Brief notes: Impunity Report, Madras HC on individual autonomy, Dialogic Judicial Review
A few legal developments/opinions worth noting: 1. Human Rights Watch released its report on August 4th, titled ‘Broken System: Dysfunction, Abuse and Impunity in the Indian Police‘. The report comprehensively documents the human rights that …
Continue readingNHRC, the law and the police
Readers who read Justice Verma’s take on the Naz Foundation case will also be interested in a historical connection going back almost a decade. The NAZ case was born out of the NHRC rejecting a …
Continue readingChandigarh Admn v. Nemo: Should a mentally retarted woman be denied the right to keep her pregnancy?
This case was perhaps the first relevant opportunity to apply and test the principles of Naz Foundation for other minorities. But the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s judgment is a huge disappointment. You can access …
Continue readingImplications of Naz Foundation judgment Today’s newspapers have variously interpreted the Naz Foundation judgment. Among the analyses, at least two deserve mention. Manoj Mitta has suggested in his piece that the judgment will be applicable …
Continue readingNaz Foundation v. Union of India
The Delhi High Court has read down s. 377 to exclude consensual sex between adults in private in its judgment in Naz Foundation v. Union of India (2009). Aspects of the case will surely be …
Continue readingOpen Letter on the Equal Opportunity Commission Bill
To sign this letter, please click here, or email the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion. Additional resources (including comparative legislations) are available here.————————————————————————————-22nd June 2009 The Minister for Minority Affairs,Government of IndiaParyavaran Bhavan, …
Continue readingRacist India!
The Outlook magazine must be commended for doing a cover story on racism at home, even as Indians cannot stop protesting against the racism they face elsewhere. It follows this recent report in the Telegraph …
Continue readingDiscrimination debate hots up: Government set to act
The Government appears set to legislate on the Equal Opportunity Commission. The President’s address to the Lok Sabha promised to ‘set up an Equal Opportunity Commission’. The Minister for Law and Justice, Veerappa Moily, mentioned …
Continue readingThe bizarre story of Mr.Joynath Victor De
The dismissal by the Supreme Court of the SLP by Mr.Joynath Victor De against his compulsory retirement by the Indian Airlines Ltd. for refusing to trim his moustache is bizarre because one expected a reasoned …
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