Month: January 2018

Rohingya refugees: Supreme Court asks Centre, petitioners to refrain from emotional arguments

Source – intoday.in The Supreme Court today said it would hear the various pleas regarding Rohingya Muslimsonly on the “points of law” and asked the parties – Centre and petitioners – to desist from advancing “emotional arguments” as the matter concerned “humanitarian cause and humanity”, which required to be heard with “mutual respect”. “The concern for humanitarian

Old case of Buddhist Chakma refugees back in Supreme Court

Source – indialegallive.com All India Chakma Students’ Union staging a demonstration in New Delhi against oppression and racial discrimination of Chakma refugees. Photo: UNI Waiting to find the Indian government’s final stand vis-à-vis the Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar—and the Supreme Court’s final decision on that—one finds that an unresolved local issue from way back in

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Source – intoday.in The high-voltage Supreme Court hearing in the Kerala ‘love jihad’ case is all set to get more rancorous. At a time CJI Dipak Misra ponders whether to continue with the NIA probe ordered by his predecessor JS Khehar to verify if there was any “ulterior or criminal” motive in Kerala-based Muslim youth Shafin Jahan marrying

Supreme Court says sex with minor wife is rape

Source – scroll.in The Supreme Court on Wednesday said sex between a man and his underage wife should be considered rape. India’s rape and child marriage laws differ on the age of consent. While Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code calls sex with a girl below 18 rape, it has an exception that says sexual