The Supreme Court on 4th January 2022 in the matter of The Rajasthan Marudhara Gramin Bank (RMGB) & Anr. Vs Ramesh Chandra Me ...
Tripura High Court: Express Acts of Sexual Harassment not mandatory under POSH Act
In VKR vs. The Union of India and Others, 2022, the Tripura High Court (“Court”) observed that the express mentioning of instances of sexual harassme ...
Allahabad High Court on sharing of sexually explicit images / videos consensually taken
In the matter of Guruvinder Singh vs. State of UP and Ors.,while rejecting the bail application, the Allahabad High Court (“Court”) on ...
Tarun Tejpal Judgement: Reflection on judicial decisions in sexual assault cases against women and way forward
The controversial Tarun Tejpal case has become the most sensational case of alleged rape and sexual assault at the workplace. The 527-page long judgm ...
Zero FIR: Right of a citizen to file FIR at any nearest police station irrespective of territorial jurisdiction
The First Information Report (“FIR”) is the first and the earliest information of the occurrence of an offence which must be registered and investiga ...
Smearing The Head Of The Prosecutrix With Vermilion Is An Intention To Show That The Person Has Accepted The Other Person As His Spouse: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court in the matter of Vikki v. State of U.P. & Anr. on 11th August 2021 dismissed the application for quashing of the charge ...
Is Section 509 of the IPC a Meaningful Provision in Current Times?
Section 509 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) is a bailable offence defined as:“Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman.—...
The Consent Given In Consequence Of Any Misconception Or Fear Cannot Be Said To Be A Free Consent: Madhya Pradesh High Court
The Madhya Pradesh High Court in the matter of Rajkishore Shrivastava vs. State of MP & Anr. on 2nd August 2021 observed that by giving the prose ...
Marital Rape Is A Good Ground To Claim Divorce: Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court in XXX v. XXX (names kept confidential) on 30th July 2021, observed that “Treating a wife's body as something owing to husband ...
Compelling A Married Women To Live In Her Parental Home Amounts To Cruelty: Madhya Pradesh High Court
In the matter of Amar Singh v. Smt. Vimla, the Madhya Pradesh High Court on 22nd June 2021 observed that compelling a married women to live in her pa ...
Using Rakhi Tying As A Condition For Bail, Transforms A Molester Into A Brother, By A Judicial Mandate. This is wholly unacceptable: Apex Court
In the matter of Aparna Bhat & Ors. v. State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors., the Supreme Court on 18th March 2021 condoned the use of reasoning/lan ...
The Testimony Of A Prosecutrix With A Disability Cannot Be Considered Weak Or Inferior – Supreme Court
In the matter of Patan Jamal Vali v. State of Andhra Pradesh, the Apex Court on 27th April, 2021 held that the testimony of a prosecutrix with a disa ...
Marital Rape: An Oxymoron or an Evil?
Justice Verma Committee Report, 2013 stated that according to the common law of coverture, a wife was deemed to have given an irrevocable consent to ...
An Order Without Reasons Is Fundamentally Contrary To The Norms Which Guide The Judicial Process: Supreme Court
In the matter of Sonu v. Sonu Yadav & Anr., the Supreme Court on 5th April 2021 set aside the Allahabad High Court decision to grant bail to a ma ...
Time Has Come For Our Society To Understand The Sexual Abuse And Sexual-Harassment And Its Implications On Victims: Rouse Avenue District Courts, New Delhi
In the matter of Mobashar Jawed Akbar v. Priya Ramani, the Court of Shri Ravindra Kumar Pandey, Rouse Avenue District Courts, New  ...
Action Should be Initiated Against Those Who File Frivolous Complaints: Delhi High Court
In Laishram Premila Devi & Ors. vs. The Sate & Ors. and Nirmala Khatri & Ors. vs. The State & Ors., the Delhi High Court on February ...