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Adv. K. T. Thomas. Annamma. Lily Isabel Thomas (5 March 1928 – 10 December 2019) [4] was an Indian lawyer who initiated improvement and change to existing laws by filing petitions in India's apex court, the Supreme Court of India and regional courts. [5] [6] Her petitions resulted in changes to laws to prevent convicted politicians getting ...
Justices K.N. Wanchoo, Vishistha Bhargava and G.K Mitter (writing together); R.S. Bachawat; V. Ramaswami. Golaknath v. State Of Punjab (1967 AIR 1643, 1967 SCR (2) 762), or simply the Golaknath case, was a 1967 Indian Supreme Court case, in which the Court ruled that Parliament could not curtail any of the Fundamental Rights in the Constitution.
Sisters Seema Mohan Gavit (born 1975) and Renuka Kiran Shinde (born 1973) are Indian serial killers convicted of kidnapping thirteen children and killing five of them between 1990 and 1996. [ 1][ 2] In association with their mother Anjanabai, they were active in various cities in western Maharashtra – Pune, Thane, Kalyan, Kolhapur, and Nashik ...
India is the world's largest democracy and with this ruling has joined the United States, Canada, South Africa, the European Union, and the UK in recognizing this fundamental right. [ 11 ] However, as the curative petition (challenging Section 377) is currently sub-judice, the judges authored that they would leave the constitutional validity to ...
The table below lists the judgments of the Constitutional Court of South Africa delivered in 1995, the first year of the court's existence.. The eleven members of the court appointed at its formation were President Arthur Chaskalson, Deputy President Ismail Mahomed, and judges Lourens Ackermann, John Didcott, Richard Goldstone, Johann Kriegler, Pius Langa, Tholie Madala, Yvonne Mokgoro, Kate O ...
Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code was a section of the Indian Penal Code introduced in 1861 during the British rule of India. Modeled on the Buggery Act 1533, it made sexual activities "against the order of nature" illegal. On 6 September 2018, the Supreme Court of India ruled that the application of Section 377 to consensual homosexual sex ...
Mohammad Afzal Guru (June 1969 – 9 February 2013) was a Kashmiri separatist [3] [4] who was convicted for his role in the 2001 Indian Parliament attack.He received a death sentence for his involvement, which was upheld by the Indian Supreme Court.
Government of the Republic of South Africa v Grootboom. Government of the Republic of South Africa and Others v Grootboom and Others[ 1] is an important case in South African law, heard in the Constitutional Court [ 2] on 11 May 2000, with judgment handed down on 4 October.