Civil society has been enraged since the death of Jayaraj (59) and his son Fenix (31) allegedly due to the custodial torture in the Satankulam police station in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin district. The police booked the deceased for the violation […]
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Ayiroor police have registered a case against a person under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act for allegedly slapping his neighbour, a Dalit woman, with his footwear. The case was registered against Joy, 44, a resident Chemmaruthy. Ayiroor […]
A BJP councillor who tried to stop the cremation of a Covid-19 victim claiming the virus would spread through smoke was booked by Kerala police on Monday. Councillor T.N. Harikumar and 30 others have been booked under provisions of the […]
WHEN OFFICIALS from the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan took him to Kochi Friday morning, 18-year-old Vinayak M Malil was told that he would get a call from a “top person”. It was only when the call came that they finally broke […]
On the 13th of July 2020, the honourable Supreme Court of India, while hearing an appeal filed by the Travancore royal family and many others against the ruling of the High Court of Kerala, pronounced a consequential judgement upholding the […]
Across India, thousands of students from tribal and SC/ST communities have been caught on the wrong side of the technology divide triggered by the pandemic, which has denied them their right to education. In Kerala, Anakha and Ardra Babu, two […]
At least 66 children have ended their lives in Kerala since the COVID-19 lockdown began on March 25 with youngsters facing stress unable to bear the unprecedented situation where schools are shut and friends out of reach to share their […]
The bench of Justice P.B. Suresh Kumar also ruled that consent requires voluntary participation of women and passive give-in or helpless resignation cannot be construed as consent. New Delhi: Sexual intercourse between a man and a woman can be construed […]
The Kerala High Court has observed that only those sexual intercourse which are welcomed could be construed as not violative of the rights of the victim, and accepted as consensual. The case against the accused was that, on a Sunday […]
Five months after the 13-year-old Dalit girl killed herself at Kollam district in Kerala, the police on Friday arrested her two uncles and a kin on charges of rape. The accused, identified as Shinu (26), Shiju (32) and Jithu (19), […]
