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Tag: Legal News India
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High Court Validates Sign Language Testimony in Landmark Rape Case
The Chhattisgarh High Court upholds a life sentence for rape, ruling that a deaf and mute survivor’s testimony using a sign language interpreter and a doll is legally valid.
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Untying a Pyjama String IS an Attempt to Rape”: Supreme Court Quashes Controversial Allahabad HC Ruling, Demands Sensitive Judges
In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court of India set aside the Allahabad High Court’s controversial verdict that grabbing a minor’s breasts and untying her pyjamas was only “preparation” and not an attempt to rape. Read the full details of the SC’s push for judicial sensitivity.
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Supreme Court Holds UGC 2026 Anti-Discrimination Rules Preliminary: Cites Inclusion of General Category as Vague, Divisive, and Abuseable.
The Supreme Court has stayed the 2026 UGC regulations on caste discrimination, citing concerns over “reverse discrimination” and the specific exclusion of general category students. The 2012 rules have been reinstated pending a review by an expert committee.
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