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“The acid burnt my clothes, and it blurred my vision, almost as soon as it came in contact with my skin. The pain that is caused me was like nothing I had ever experienced before.”

By a writ petition filed in 2014 by the Delhi-based NGO, We the Citizens, the Supreme Court looked into the constitutional validity of Article 35A, which essentially grants special privileges to the ‘permanent residents’ of Jammu and Kashmir.

Squashing her father’s petition, a Kerala HC bench upheld the right of a 19-year-old girl to live with her 18-year-old partner.

This proposed move, which is yet to get approval from the centre, recommends that any person who was sexually assaulted as a child, be allowed to report the incident until they turn 25 years of age.

On August 20, 2013, this IPS officer was put in charge of the Asaram Bapu case, one of the most high-profile and media-monitored cases in recent times.

Atri Kar, a transgender from Bengal, was facing issues enrolling for the UPSC Exam.

Out for work, the couple returned to their Sion-Koliwada house in the evening to witness the brutal murder of their only daughter, three-year-old Vaishnavi and Sheetal’s mother, 55-year-old Ranjana Nagotkar. The little girl and the elderly woman lay in a pool of blood, their throats slit.

Thanks to the Malappuram District Legal Services Authority, she was selected in the judging panel of the District Court complex at Manjeri for hearing petitions

“The attempt was made by his security personnel to take him away in his vehicle, along with his Z-plus security, from the court complex.”

The Islampur court is barely five minutes from the bus stand where she had slept in 2010, after inns refused to lodge her, because of her gender.