On 10 April, the Supreme Court ordered the central government to create a national policy on menstrual hygiene, specifically for school-going girls in the country.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court rejected the Centre’s curative petition, which asked for an extra Rs 7,844 crore from the Union Carbide Corporation’s (UCC) successor companies to provide victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.
During his keynote speech, the Chief Justice discussed “Why can’t we have more women judges?”
Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena approved the filing of a review petition in the Supreme Court challenging the acquittal of the three men in rape case
The bench delivered the split verdict in the challenge to the Karnataka government order which empowered the state government colleges to ban students from wearing a hijab on campus.
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The Gujarat government released the convicts under the outdated remission policy of 1992 and not the current remission policy of 2014.
Nupur Sharma, in the now withdrawn petition, filed in Supreme Court requested a transfer to Delhi the multiple FIRs filed against her citing threats.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.
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