Intention Of No Consequence In Cases of Medical Negligence

In a recent ruling by the Supreme Court of India, issues of medical negligence, mens rea and legal procedures laid down by the Apex Court came into focus, once again. The bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and Sanjiv Khanna set aside a judgment of the Patna High Court as well as the summoning order issued by the Trial Court and ruled mens rea was not required in Medical Negligence cases.

India Needs Legislation for LGBTI Community

So, joining the Parkfield Community School at Birmingham in United Kingdom are four more schools putting an end to lessons on ‘Diversity and LGBT issues’, following complaints by parents. 

The Leigh Trust suspended the ‘No Outsiders’ project, which teaches tolerance of diverse groups, including those of different races, genders and sexual orientation, until an agreement with parents had been reached.

Once-bitten Biggies of Hindi Film Industry Remain Politically Correct

The Me-Too movement has gained momentum across India, yet in the Hindi film industry, despite legally-orchestrated and guarded comments from a few, there is a general hush. The hush has an on-the-face-of-it ‘legal’ yet a more real ‘commercial’ basis to it. The Tanushree Dutta episode has exposed the underbelly of self-righteous sections of the film industry.

Supreme Court upholds Constitutionality of Aadhaar

The historic judgement puts manufactured fears of privacy risks to rest and curtails powers of private entities to avail, use and retain data. The September 26th Supreme Court judgement on the Constitutionality of Aadhaar, following a 38-day hearing spread over four months, has fetched mixed reactions. Primarily, the Apex Court upheld Aadhaar’s Constitutionality and cleared the air saying that nothing in the Aadhaar Act violates the Right to Privacy of an individual. It (Aadhaar) served ‘a bigger public interest’, was ‘unique’, and that unique was ‘better than the best’.

New Censorship Dimensions

Films have always been closely associated with Freedom. But, Freedom comes with riders. One's freedom cannot hurt another. Also, the issue of curbs being ‘unequally distributed,” across media and hence violative of Article 14 of the Indian Constitution that guarantees Equality is of topical importance. Actor-filmmaker Amol Palekar’s Public Interest Litigation challenged the ‘pre-censorship’ of films and, in particular, the provisions of the law in question.

The Indian Supreme Court Ruling on Section 377

On 11 December 2013, the Indian Supreme Court restored an 1861 law banning gay sex.

A corrective move by the Indian Supreme Court in overturning an “over-reaching verdict” passed by a Delhi High Court vis-à-vis the “constitutional validity” of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code is being flayed publicly as usual.

The deafening outrage is the loudest from within India and beyond from among Indian expatriates, non-resident Indians and self-styled authorities on Indian systems.