In the landmark judgment of NALSA, it was held that transgender people have the right to consider themselves as the third gender in accordance with their fundamental rights under Articles 14, 15, 16, 19(1)(a) and 21 of the Indian Constitution. Consequently, the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2019 was introduced by Parliament to protect their rights. Despite that, transgenders continue to face discrimination in various places. Therefore, we need to spread the awareness that transgenders are no

The law of rape is not just a few sentences it is a whole book that has clearly demarcated chapters and cannot be read selectively.In the words of Justice Arijit Pasayat, while a murderer destroys the physical frame of the victim on the other hand the rapist defiles the soul of a helpless female…Whether it is rape or sexual harassment or any other kind of crime against women, the object behind is the same and that is to dominate women for the fulfilment of desire and lust of another man leaving the victim in a

When an accused is held guilty, he has to serve the punishment drawn to him. There had been immense debate on the constitutionality of the death penalty and it was held in the landmark judgement of Bacchan Singh v. the State of Punjab that it should be given in rarest of rare cases, what is the rarest of the rare case is still not categorised because the Mens rea cannot be calculated.To deal with this type of issue and to do justice in a reformative way concepts of commutation, suspension and remission have

DK Basu, Executive Chairman of Legal Aid services, West Bengal, addressed a letter to the Supreme Court of India putting his focus on a published Telegraph Newspapers regarding the deaths in police custody. He asked for the letter to be treated as a Writ Petition within the PIL, Public Interest Litigation.
Since the issues raised in the letter were important, it was treated as a written Petition and the Defendants were informed. While the write petition was under consideration, Mr Ashok Kumar wrote a letter to the

Section 107 of the Indian Penal Code is based on the crime of abetment. Basically, abetment is the instigation or support which facilitates the commission of an offence. The person committing such offence is punishable under Section 109 IPC which says that

Labour Law emerged because of the demand of workers for better circumstances, the right to organize, and the simultaneous demands of employers to limit the powers of workers in many companies and to continue low labour costs

“I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization”, a well said phrase by Jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr… A tax may be defined as a mandatory charge or levy imposed on the taxpayer by a government organisation in order to collect revenue for various public expenditures. The government of India levies taxes on the income of workers and business gains to the cost of some transactions,

A rape that is perpetrated by a person who is known and familiar with the victim is known as acquaintance rape. In most instances, acquaintances of the victim are someone he/she is dating, co-worker, classmate, teacher, family member, therapist, spouse, etc. Most studies show that about 60% and 80% of all reported rape cases are acquaintance rapes. Acquaintance Rape and any other form of Sexual Assault is a Criminal Offence.

In the eyes of Indian law, an accused is considered as an innocent until proven guilty and this principle is known as “Presumption of Innocence”. One can trace its existence by having a reference of Indian Constitution, Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 and some landmark judgements. As being a human an accused have all the basic rights which are guaranteed by our constitution for example right to life, personal liberty and no one can be deprived of those rights except a procedure established by the law