Top Law News HIV positive family beaten up, thrown out of home November 24, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment According to the Police in Jodhpur, After an NGO disclosed the identity of an HIV-infected couple to their neighbours they and their four children have been ostracised and are being forced to sleep on pavements. The family has been sleeping on pavements outside the local railway station after their neighbours beat them up and forced […] Read more » AIDS patient Code of Criminal Procedural HIV positive HIV-infected couple Jodhpur's Ambedkar Colony Police in Jodhpur Sursagar police station
Top Law News HIV+ convict’s jail term reduced by court July 19, 2012 / July 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court reduced two-year jail term awarded to a HIV + man for stealing a railway property to six months on compassionate grounds. Additional Sessions Judge Pawan Kumar Jain reduced the convict’s jail term, showing leniency to him because he being a HIV+ but rejecting his appeal against a magisterial court’s July 2011 judgment, which had […] Read more » compassionate ground for HIV+ Delhi court HIV HIV positive HIV+ convicts HIV+ man release of HIV+ on compassionate ground Section 3 of the Railway Property (Unlawful Possession) Act
Top Law News HC asks courts to expedite cases of HIV positive people June 28, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Acting on a letter by Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid, raising concerns over the problems faced by HIV positive people in accessing judiciary, the Delhi High Court has asked all its subordinate courts to expedite disposal of cases involving such people. A communique from the high court’s registrar general to all the lower courts directed judicial […] Read more » cases against HIV positive people cases against HIV positive people in Delhi Delhi High Court HIV positive HIV positive people Salman Khurshid Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid
Top Law News Rape by a HIV +ve : Accused to face trial June 12, 2012 / June 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Once again a rape incident has shook the conscience of people. This time it is the father who raped his step daughter, the father was HIV infected. HIV is a serious disease which can kill people, the dilemma in this case whether he can be charged for attempt to murder. And another issue involved is […] Read more » HIV positive Judge Lau rape rape of step daughter the offence of causing miscarriage