Source: moneycontrol.com The Supreme Court August 13 slapped cost of up to Rs 1 lakh on seven states for failing to file responses regarding setting up of human rights courts despite its January 2018 direction. The top court imposed cost of Rs 1 lakh each on Rajasthan and Uttarakhand while noting that neither have they
Source: firstpost.com Mumbai:The Bombay High Court on Monday asked the railway authorities to “think out of the box” and come up with ways to make suburban train coaches and stations more disabled-friendly. The Railways, in an affidavit submitted before the high court said it would not be possible to increase the halt time of trains
Source: outlookindia.com New Delhi, Jul 19 The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Executive Committee has expressed concern over CBI searches at the residence and offices of senior advocates Indira Jaising and Anand Grover. In a message sent by SCBA president Rakesh Kumar Khanna to its members, he said that there should not be any interference
Source: dailytimes.com. After the first two day visit of UN Secretary General to Srinagar in March 1956, UN June 14, 2018 and July 8, 2019 reports on Jammu and Kashmir are two leaps steps in the world interest in Kashmir. It does not happen on its own. The leading NGOs in special consultative status with
Source: thewire.in New Delhi: The murder of 23-year-old Y. Hemavathi – killed by her parents for marrying out of her caste – could have been prevented if police had not ignored previous complaints made by her and her husband, a fact-finding team has said. A three-member team of Human Rights Forum visited the Mandipeta-Kotamuru village
Source: thehindu.com India has abstained from voting on a General Assembly resolution aimed at examining options to end trade in goods used for capital punishment and torture, saying it is unacceptable to place death penalty on par with torture. The 193-member UN General Assembly Friday adopted the resolution ‘Towards torture-free trade: examining the feasibility, scope
Source: counterview.net Two top rights groups with presence in several countries, including India, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have said that the “criminal case” against the Lawyers Collective, a Delhi-based high profile NGO with some of the most well-known Supreme Court advocates as its office bearers, is the latest example of how the foreign
Source-ndtv.com Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said she has no “grudge” against a group of Army officers who have approached the Supreme Court to present their views on cases relating to the Armed Forces Special Powers Act or AFSPA. The defence minister said the officers have chosen to go to the court as there is
Source:- financialexpress.com The threat to civil liberties in India is very serious but there is also a lot of resistance against this threat in the country, according to one of India’s leading human rights lawyers. “In India, the threat to civil liberties is very, very serious. There is a determined effort to silence those who
Source – firstpost.com Human rights are a matter of both democracy and hypocrisy, certainly in India. Two recent examples, India’s flat-out fight for one of its own and its flat-out denial of human rights violations aimed at entire communities, highlight it as nothing else. There is little ground for dispute that a country must stand
