Judicial Affirmation: The Karnataka High Court (in a 2025 ruling referencing the 2019 Amendment) affirmed that the POCSO Act is a gender-neutral, progressive enactment designed to protect children, ...

Police officers can record dying declarations in emergency situations, but with stricter identification requirements. The Supreme Court has clarified that "dying declaration does not become ...

The Court’s discussion implicitly addresses a practical enforcement gap: link-based consumption and transient viewing are common vectors in online child exploitation ecosystems, and a purely ...

Where a single mortgage deed secures liabilities arising out of multiple independent loan agreements, each constituting a separate and enforceable transaction and each requiring creation of security, ...

1. Short title and commencement.— (1) This Act may be called the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act, 2019. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government ...

Maharashtra has formally operationalised “community service” as a court-imposed punishment for a defined set of minor offences by notifying the Maharashtra (Community Services as Punishment for ...

Marriage and Separation: Rousanara Begum and S.K. Salahuddin were married on August 28, 2005. Due to escalating matrimonial ...

The mandatory regime imposed a staggering "procedural burden" that effectively denied "Access to Justice" for the middle ...

51. As a result, the Appellant is entitled to a direction for release from custody by applying the ratio of the judgment rendered by this Court in the case of Pankaj Bansal (supra).

In cases where the FIR is lodged against unknown persons, and the persons made Accused are not known to the witnesses, material collected during investigation plays an important role to determine ...

The Repealing and Amending Bill, 2025 (Bill No. 193 of 2025, as introduced in Lok Sabha) is a periodic “clean-up” measure: it repeals enactments that have ceased to be in force/are obsolete and ...

A John Doe order is a type of legal injunction that allows a plaintiff to take action against unknown or unidentified defendants. The term "John Doe" serves as a placeholder name for anonymous parties ...