SC Women Lawyers' body demands ban on online porn, unfiltered obscenity on OTT platforms amid rising violence against women, calls for nationwide safety measures.
Read Full ArticleThe appointment of 11 women as Senior Advocates marks a watershed in Supreme Courts history, but also compels one to rethink the issue of womens reservation, writes Sr. Adv. Mahalakshmi Pavani.
Supreme Court refuses to quash FIR against retired Major General V K Singh over his book revealing RAW secrets. Singh alleges vendetta, highlights corruption in India's external intelligence agency.
The last thing we want is to divide our women into sub-quotas. Senior Advocate Mahalaxmi Pavani has asserted that the demand for sub-quota within Womens Reservation Bill is not relevant here. Woman is Woman, and we should not segregate them on the bases of caste!
In Voluntary Health Assn. of Punjab v. Union of India, (2013) 4 SCC 1, the Supreme Court in its watershed judgment on female foeticidedecided it to be the most aggravated form of dehumanization of the human race. The court was observed to have stated that the"Law prohibits it; Scriptures forbid it; philosophy condemns it; ethics deprecate it; morality decries it, and social science abhors it. Its time the executive pulled up its socks and tightened the noose around implementation of the PC & PNDT Act. The duality around women with exhalation of deities and contrasting blatant disregard for their basic human rights needs to break the confounds of mere academic debate and reinforce the tenets on which the Constitution of India rests.
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