-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre to draw up a policy to combat air pollution across the country, saying the threat was not confined to the Delhi-NCR region. Additional solicitor-general A.N.S. Nadkarni said the Centre would take the issue up with the various stakeholders. "You must have a plan for the entire country. The problem of air pollution is there even in places like Raipur, Patna and...
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Aadhaar query on homeless -R Balaji
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court has stumped the Centre by wondering how it intends to issue Aadhaar cards to innumerable homeless persons in the country in the absence of a residential identity. The court also wondered how the homeless could be given any national identity at all when they do not have any individual proof of residence. "A person who is homeless, how will you give an Aadhaar card?" a bench...
More »SC widens ban on polluting fuels
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday banned the use of petroleum coke and furnace oil in the National Capital Region, Haryana and Rajasthan by 34 industrial groups in its efforts to bring down pollution levels that have spiked in the industrial hubs of these areas post-Diwali. These fuels, which emanate highly toxic gases, are banned in Delhi since 1996. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) lauded the directive as...
More »'A rapist is a rapist' even if husband
-PTI The Supreme Court today referred to the European Commission of Human Rights' observation on sexual assault by relatives that "a rapist remains a rapist regardless of his relationship with the victim", while criminalising sexual intercourse with a wife below 18 years. A bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta, however, made it clear that it was not dealing with the question of marital rape of women above the age...
More »Sex with minor wife is rape, rules Supreme Court -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu Exception clause to the heinous offence of rape allows a man to have sex with his wife who is not aged below 15. The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that a man will be punished for rape if he is found to be guilty of havIng sexual intercourse with his minor wife. A Bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta read down exception 2 to Section 375 (rape) of...
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