Gender cannot be a ground to deny promotion where Recruitment Rules make no distinction: Tripura HC
The Tripura High Court quashed the Inspector General of Prisons’ communication and directed reconsideration within three months.
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‘Teach constitutional journey through lives who shaped it’: Madras HC directs State to include Dr B.R. Ambedkar in TN school curriculum
The tragedy of our times lies in confining such a towering national figure within narrow caste-based perceptions. Dr Ambedkar’s larger-than-life legacy is too often reduced to a sectional emblem, when in truth he belongs to the entire nation, to every classroom, every court, every institution of learning, and every citizen who cherishes dignity under the law.
“Transgenders are Also Children of God”: Madras High Court Issues Welfare Directions Following Self-Immolation Incident
“The members of the transgender community continue to face entrenched social stigma, resulting in deprivation of basic dignity and meaningful livelihood opportunities.”
‘Granting appointment out of turn would violate fairness & equality’; Bombay HC dismisses plea for compassionate appointment to waitlisted candidate
“The object of compassionate appointment is to relieve the hardship due to the death of a bread winner in the family and the appointment is provided to redeem the family in distress. At the same time, it is to be borne in mind that compassionate appointment cannot be construed as opening an alternative mode of recruitment to public employment.”
‘Unjustified perception that wife working as police officer can never be victim of domestic violence’; Delhi HC sets aside order discharging husband and his family of cruelty
“The essence of gender-neutrality must permeate through every line of a judgment, and a judge must cultivate thoughts that are inherently gender-neutral.”
‘Pardanashin Woman is not religious but legal concept’; Delhi High Court upholds police authority and women’s dignity beyond veil
In a landmark ruling, the Delhi High Court unequivocally dismissed the antiquated notion of ‘pardanashin,’ affirming that a woman’s dignity transcends cultural stereotypes like the veil. Upholding fundamental rights, the court emphasized that dignity is intrinsic to every individual, irrespective of religious practices.
Delhi High Court issues directions for Trial Court while passing bail orders; Condemns use of derogatory language in legal pleadings
Use of inappropriate and derogatory language, undermining the dignity of individuals, based on their gender, falls beyond the permissible bounds of language expected in legal pleadings.
Make way for the outsiders: Compassionate Appointment cannot be extended to heirs of the retiring employees, holds Supreme Court
Supreme Court: In a case where the Ahmednagar Mahanagar Palika/ Municipal Corporation was giving appointment to the heirs of the employees on
Chh HC | Art. 14 of the Constitution does not envisage negative equality; Grant of study leave to employees under probation, cannot be a ground for claiming negative parity in the teeth of R. 42 (5) of Chhattisgarh Civil Services (Leave) Rules, 2010
Chhattisgarh High Court: A Division Bench of Arup Kumar Goswami CJ. and Rajendra Chandra Singh Samant J. dismissed the appeal and remarked
Mere differential treatment cannot on its own be termed as an “anathema to Article 14 of the Constitution”: SC
Supreme Court: The bench of Sanjay Kishan Kaul and MM Sundresh*, JJ has held that when there is a reasonable basis for
Explained| Article 14: Under-inclusive and over-inclusive classification
Supreme Court: The bench of Dr. DY Chandrachud* and AS Bopanna, JJ while upholding the constitutionality of the Scheme formulated by the
Govt must reserve posts for promotions for persons with disabilities even under 1995 PwD Act; explore other methods to avoid stagnation: Supreme Court
“… sometimes it is easier to bring a legislation into force but far more difficult to change the social mind set which would endeavour to find ways and means to defeat the intent of the Act enacted… .”
‘Not enough to proudly state that women officers are allowed to serve the nation in the Armed Forces’; Army’s evaluation of Women SSC Officers for grant of permanent commission arbitrary: SC
“The structures of our society have been created by males and for males. As a result, certain structures that may seem to be the “norm” and may appear to be harmless, are a reflection of the insidious patriarchal system.”
In a big win for LGBT workers, US SC holds firing an individual merely for being homosexual or transgender illegal
US Supreme Court: In a crucial verdict for the LGBT Community, the US Supreme Court has, in a 6-3 verdict, held that
Bom HC | Right to Agitation | Persons agitating cannot be called as traitors, anti-nationals only because they want to oppose one law
Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of M.G. Sewlikar and T.V. Nalawade, JJ., while allowing the present petition with respect to the
New Law College, Bharti Vidyapeeth to organise Lecture Series on ‘Gender, Law and Equality: Emerging Issues’
New Law College, Bharti Vidyapeeth University, Pune is organising 10 days’ Lecture Series on “Gender, Law and Equality: Emerging Issues” from 1st
Adherence to rule of equality in public employment is a basic feature of our Constitution
High Court of Jammu and Kashmir: A Division Bench comprising of Ramalingam Sudhakar, J. and M.K. Hanjura, J. recently addressed a petition which
Ministry of Home Affairs should take steps to curb racial discrimination against people from north-eastern states
Supreme Court: In a PIL seeking guidelines to be set down to curb acts of discrimination against persons from the north-eastern states,