-The Hindu A complex picture emerges from the analysis of a year of Mumbai sessions court rulings on sexual assault: false cases foisted by parents, wide variation in the sentences, societal prejudices and vulnerabilities at play, and a tendency for investigating high-profile cases with greater rigour Over half of all sexual assault cases decided by Mumbai’s sessions courts in 2015 involved either parents filing cases against young couples who had eloped, or...
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Thanks to Haryana law and SC order, these women and their village will fall off the map -Ritika Chopra
-The Indian Express The residents of Nimkheda, a small settlement of 1,674 people in Haryana’s Mewat district, are visibly unsettled and worried Nimkheda (Mewat, Haryana): Dressed in a white salwar-kameez, her dupatta wrapped as a headscarf, an upset Ashubi Khan (55) thumped her right palm with her fist as she spoke in Mewati. “My illiteracy is not my fault, but a reflection of the state’s failure to fulfil its responsibilities. Did our...
More »NGO offers tips for judicial reforms
-The Telegraph New Delhi: A non-government organisation has come up with a raft of ideas to reform the judicial system, saying unless things were speeded up it would take at least a hundred years to dispose of the current backlog of three crore cases. The suggestions from the Children's Rights Initiative for Shared Parenting (CRISP) came in representations the NGO made to Chief Justice of India (CJI) H.L. Dattu and Union law...
More »RTI empowers the citizen, but threats can make Act opaque -Shailesh Gandhi
-Hindustan Times After a decade of the implementation of the national Right To Information (RTI) Act, it is necessary to reflect on some of its key achievements and the threats it faces. It has spread across the country, and there is no district that has not received RTI applications. It has empowered the ordinary citizen to get respect as an individual from the government and its officials. Citizens are becoming the monitors...
More »Delay in hearing appeals as good as justice denied
-The Times of India The wheels of justice, the saying goes, grind slowly but grind exceedingly fine. In the Indian context, it would be more true to say that they grind so exceedingly slowly that there can be nothing fine about the outcome. When we set out to look at instances of gross miscarriage of justice, we found several cases where people were convicted of heinous crimes and locked up for...
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