Month: September 2017

Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra Bars Senior Lawyers From Orally Mentioning Their Cases in Supreme Court

  A day after a batch of advocates complained about Senior Advocates eating away their chances of getting urgent dates for hearing, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra Wednesday asked the designated senior lawyers not to orally mention their cases henceforth. As soon as the mentioning began at 10.30 am on Wednesday morning, the CJI

Marital Rape under Indian Law

  “Sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife the wife not being under fifteen years of age, is not rape “ This is what our IPC section 375 exception 2 says. Recently, a petition was filed in Delhi High Court challenging this law (RIT Foundation v. Union of India). This incident arouses few important questions

MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY ACT 1971

Abortion, a method by which foetus in mother’s womb is eliminated. In a country like India, this practice may be termed as a taboo. But, its actually legal through a law termed as medical termination of pregnancy act 1971. Before 1971 abortion was illegal and punishable under IPC, but continuous growth in number of illegal