AMU’s gay lecturer Ramchandra Siras, was first illegally filmed in a compromising position with another man, then suspended by AMU. Though reinstated by the Allahabad High Court, he was found dead — in suspicious circumstances …
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NUJS Law Review Special Issue on the Naz Foundation Case
The NUJS law review has just come out with its special volume dedicated to the landmark Naz Foundation judgment that effectively decriminalised same sex activities in India. Pursuant to its tradition of being an open …
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 readingSupreme Court declines immediate stay on Delhi High Court’s Naz Foundation judgment
The hearing on the SLP against Delhi HC’s July 2 judgment on Naz Foundation v. UOI (Suresh Kumar Kaushal v. Naz Foundation) began at 12.35 p.m. and ended at 12.50 p.m. at Court No.1 before …
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Q&A on Naz Foundation judgment
I found Vikram Raghavan’s three posts analysing the Naz Foundation judgment extremely useful to understand its significance. What I attempt in this post is to answer some of his concerns, as well as that of …
Continue readingNaz, minorities and personal laws
In this Telegraph piece, I have argued that given the innovations under Article 15 in Naz Foundation, all vulnerable groups now have unprecedented protection under law, and therefore all minorities, including religious minorities, should welcome …
Continue readingExtraterritorial application of High Court judgments: A riposte to Shivprasad Swaminathan
Guest Blogger Subramanian Natarajan I have been following with quite some fascination what is probably the only purely theoretical question to have faced the Indian constitution since the much vexed question of its amendability. I …
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