The Supreme Court ruled that the exclusion of unmarried women who conceive out of a live-in relationship from the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Rules is unconstitutional.
Justice Rastogi asked, “Merely because the act was horrific, is that sufficient to say remission is wrong?”
The Gujarat government released the convicts under the outdated remission policy of 1992 and not the current remission policy of 2014.
Nupur Sharma, in the now withdrawn petition, filed in Supreme Court requested a transfer to Delhi the multiple FIRs filed against her citing threats. The Court while hearing the case blamed her for the law and order situation in the country.
The court also ruled that in raids on brothels, sex workers should not be jailed, penalised, harassed, or victimised because voluntary sex work is not illegal and only running brothels is.
The Supreme Court has quashed the conviction of a man found guilty in a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) case arguing that he was “happily married” to the woman with two kids. The man happens to be the maternal uncle of the woman.
Phawa was pregnant in February 2020, when she was arrested and kept in jail. The bail was given because, despite a lapse of almost two years, her trial has not commenced.
The petition was being heard by a three-member bench of the Supreme Court which included Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice Surya Kant and Justice Vikram Nath.
Multiple FIRs have been registered against the actor, including the National Executive Member of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Preeti Menon and the National Congress Party (NCP) leader.
A bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul asked the Centre to allow girls to take the entrance exam for admission in RIMC starting this year, in December instead of waiting till June 2022
