Forty-six-year-old Swapnesh Babu, a construction worker in Kerala’s Ernakulam, cannot go to work all days of the week. There are days when he is…
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Five people die in custody every day, according to a 2019 report by the National Campaign Against Torture. The incidents of custodial torture in…
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A traumatised rape survivor, that too a nun, cannot be expected to narrate abuse in consistent, accurate terms, say legal experts “The victim was…
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Home, they say, is where the heart is. But for 15-year-old Pooja, home is where trauma was. Unable to bear the trauma, Pooja left…
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The family court in Thiruvananthapuram has stayed the controversial adoption procedure followed for the child of Anupama S Chandran and Ajith Kumar, who raised…
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Although trials in sexual harassment/rape cases have been generally held in-camera as stipulated under section 327(2) of CrPC, some argue that that the blanket…
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When Valentine Jelastine and Ajish Pinku set sail from Neendakara fishing harbour in Kollam on February 15, 2012, they had no idea they wouldn’t…
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Accused No 24 of the 2008 Bangalore Blasts case exists in two places at the same time. Lodged in prison, he is ‘absconding’ as…
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