1956 Archives

criminal proceedings against consenting adult sex worker

‘Sex workers entitled to equal protection’: Chhattisgarh HC quashes criminal proceedings under Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act against consenting adult sex worker

The High Court held that continuation of criminal proceedings against an adult woman under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 would amount to abuse of the process of law where the material did not disclose any specific act constituting the alleged offences.

Case Briefs District Court

Who Owns Your Digital Assets After a Person Dies? Gandhinagar Court Says Legal Heirs Do; Directs Apple to Hand Over the Data

“The right to privacy, being an inherently personal right, does not survive the death of the individual.”

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Supreme Court’s Landmark Benami Act Ruling Explained: Why the 2016 Amendment Is Retrospective, What ‘Fiduciary Capacity’ Means, and When Confiscation Follows

The Court directed the confiscation of the property where a claim, which was presented to be based on a will, but was in substance an attempt to obtain judicial recognition of a benami transaction.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Married woman’s heirs on paternal side are not strangers; she can enter in family settlement with such heirs: Supreme Court

Supreme Court: The bench of Ashok Bhushan* and R. Subhash Reddy, JJ has held that when heirs of father of a female