Media & Entertainment News Delhi Police Commissioner B.K. Gupta’s statement was shocking. July 11, 2011 / July 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Slamming Delhi Police Commissioner B.K. Gupta’s statement that women venturing out late night should be accompanied by a male, activists and politicians Sunday said that the remark was shocking. “The statement reflects a misplaced understanding of modernised India,” Ranjana Kumari, director of Centre for Social Research, told. “If a job requires a woman to leave […] Read more » B.K. Gupta Delhi Police Commissioner
Media & Entertainment News Rights panel reminds officials about Ramdev report July 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Friday issued reminders to the union home secretary and the Delhi chief secretary for their reports on the midnight crackdown on yoga guru Baba Ramdev which are still awaited. “On June 6, they (home secretary and Delhi chief secretary) along with the Delhi Police Commissioner were asked by the […] Read more » Delhi Police Commissioner National Human Rights Commission NHRC Ramdev report yoga guru Baba Ramdev
Media & Entertainment News Court raps medical college for easing attendance norms July 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday rapped the Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) here for allowing its students with barely 30 percent attendance to appear in their final examination. The division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna directed the college to place before it the register with details on attendance of the […] Read more » attendance norms Chief Justice Dipak Misra Justice Sanjiv Khanna Maulana Azad Medical College medical college
Media & Entertainment News Uniform syllabus cannot be used this year: Expert panel July 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The nine-member expert committee set up to review syllabus and textbooks for rolling out uniform education system in Tamil Nadu Tuesday told the Madras High Court that the syllabus needs lot of changes and cannot be used in the current academic year. The expect committee’s report was submitted to the court by Advocate General Navaneetha […] Read more » Advocate General Navaneetha Krishnan Anil Sethi Chief Secretary Debendranath Sarangi G. Balasubramanian K.Tripathy principal Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan Uniform syllabus Y.G.Parthasarathy
Media & Entertainment News Gay community, celebs, UNAIDS slam Azad’s MSM remark July 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Homosexuality is not a disease and there is no place for discrimination on the basis of a person’s sexual orientation, UNAIDS emphasised Tuesday, a day after Indian Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said men having sex with men (MSM) is a “disease” and “unnatural”. “India’s rich tradition of inclusivity and social justice must include men […] Read more » celebs Gay community Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad men having sex with men MSM remark UNAIDS
Media & Entertainment News Supreme Court stops Chhattisgarh from using tribals in Salwa Judum July 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday slammed the Chhattisgarh government for using tribals as special police officers (SPOs) in its Salwa Judum counter-insurgency operation against the Maoists , saying this should immediately stop. An apex court bench of Justice B. Sudershan Reddy and Justice S.S Nijjar directed the Chhattisgarh government to immediately “cease and desist” from […] Read more » Chhattisgarh Justice B. Sudershan Reddy Justice S.S.Nijjar Salwa Judum Supreme Court
Media & Entertainment News MSM is unnatural: Ghulam Nabi Azad July 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Men having sex with men (MSM) is “unnatural”, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said Monday, a comment that is likely to raise the hackles of activists who have struggled to decriminalise homosexuality. “The practice of MSM is unnatural and not good for India. We are not able to identify where it is happening as it […] Read more » Ghulam Nabi Azad Health Minister HIV/AIDS MSM NACO National AIDS Control Organisation UNAIDS unnatural
Media & Entertainment News Major immigration fraud uncovered in Punjab July 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A major immigration fraud of Rs 8 million (Rs 80 lakh) was uncovered here, Punjab police said on Sunday. A complaint was received against an immigration agent Gurbachan Singh Manku, based here, 100 km away from state capital Chandigarh. He had duped around 80 people of Rs 100,000 each on the pretext of sending them […] Read more » immigration fraud Punjab uncovered
Media & Entertainment News A long way to go, cheer Delhi’s gays July 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Pulsating drum beats, rainbow hues adorning the crowd, and faces beaming with pride and joy — the capital’s alternate sexuality community got together Saturday to celebrate the second anniversary of the Delhi High Court’s landmark ruling decriminalising homosexuality. The over 200 people who gathered at Jantar Mantar were throbbing with excitement, though the evening’s message […] Read more » Delhi's gays Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender LGBT
Media & Entertainment News ‘Delhi Police can’t be blamed for action on Baba Ramdev’ July 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Reiterating his stand on the forcible eviction of yoga guru Baba Ramdev from the Ramlila Ground here last month, Delhi Police chief BK Gupta on Saturday said his team was not at fault. “The police actions have been recorded by the cameras of many news channels and they prove that the police cannot be blamed,” […] Read more » Baba Ramdev blamed Delhi Police
Media & Entertainment News From closet to freedom for India’s gays, two years on July 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment What would you make of 377, 2/7, 730? Could be a code or a logical reasoning question. But, for queers, 377 is the Indian Penal Code section that denied them the right to love for over a century, 2/7 is when the Delhi High Court famously read down the section and 730 the number of […] Read more » India's gays
Criminal Law News Media & Entertainment News Girl killed in police station was gangraped: Women’s panel July 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Contradicting two autopsy reports, the National Commission for Women (NCW) said here Thursday that the minor girl found dead in a police station complex in this Uttar Pradesh district had indeed been gangraped. Not only one, several people raped the girl and brutally killed her. Thereafter, the girls body was hanged from a tree to […] Read more » gangraped girl killed police station