The question of culture has regularly been a matter of legal concern. Both culture and law being ubiquitous entities get normalized as a part of our everyday lives.
In response to a recent petition before the Delhi High Court, the Central Government through the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has submitted that it intends to include ‘transgender’ as a category in the gender classification of prisoners.
In 2018, India saw the issue of sexual violence against young children come into the limelight after a series of cases were highlighted by the media.
In the first episode of The 39A Dialogues, criminal law expert Siddharth Aggarwal argues that the stage of “discharge” is an integral feature of all criminal trials and cannot be arbitrarily eliminated from summons triable cases