In a repeat of another such verdict last year, the MP HC has said that a husband having anal sex with his wife without her consent is not unnatural offence nor is it rape. 

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A Supreme Court Bench, expressing concern that cases of cruelty by the husband are being filed on the smallest excuse, said Section 498A IPC cannot be applied mechanically and the legislature must look into the issue.

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The late Justice S.K. Desai, a senior puisne judge of the Bombay High Court in the 1980s, hated bad drafting. And bad drafting in bad English was like pouring fuel into his fire. Then the firing would start!

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There is a risk of inadvertently fuelling illicit exotic pet trade due to a lack of enforcement capacity in India. How can it be countered?

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With so many calls for changing the Constitution made by people associated with the ruling regime at the Union level, civil society and opposition have come together to make it a major election issue, writes S.N. Sahu.

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Court judgments are informed by a wide variety of factors, and when the factors change, the judgments change too. Here, Prof. Arun Kumar hopes that the recent EVM judgment will change sooner rather than later.

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Amidst multiple challenges, waste pickers in India and globally deserve more attention and support.

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Now is the time to revisit the message of the Haymarket Affair, which in essence is taking place every day everywhere in the country, writes Ishita Mukhopadhyay.

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Men and transgender persons also face harassment at the workplace, but the solution is not to include them within the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, writes Dr Anagha Sarpotdar.

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A closer engagement with the new labour codes can reinvigorate India’s workers’ movement while providing much-needed solace to the unorganised sector, writes Shyam Sundar.

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Not many people know that the first trade union movement in the world has origins in Kashmir dating back to 1865.

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The agents of such a holistic revolution to save Mother Earth are not simply the working class in a traditional economic sense, but also the ‘ecological proletariat’, a dedicated army of an ecologically conscious working class, writes Rana Mitra.

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Hard-won labour rights have receded in the face of new labour laws to promote ‘ease of doing business’, informalisation of work, and the trappings of the start-up culture in India, writes Maya John.

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On Labour Day, we commemorate the historical struggles of workers’ movements in a world and country where labour rights are increasingly ceded to the interests of capital, writes Amala Dasarathi.

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All the doublespeak in the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, the National Register of Citizenship and the so-called love jihad laws cannot hide the slow death of citizenship of Muslim Indians, writes Harsh Mander.

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The proximity of politics and the judiciary creates an unnecessary apprehension of osmosis. How can India’s judicial system allay this fear?

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Can the test of proportionality, developed in detail by the Supreme Court of India over the years, be applied to the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act?

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Judiciary needs to dig its heels in on the slippery slope of ultra-nationalism to ensure accountability survives

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You have a right to vote
No doubt that’s fundamental
But wanting to check and verify
Means you have a problem mental

Presume constitutionality
Trust all ministers and PM
Doubt only the vested interests
Spare the foolproof EVM

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Preliminary examination of electoral bonds data has revealed a strong possibility of quid pro quo. What are the legal dimensions of the issue?

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