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Supreme Court Interprets Scope of 'Child' under POCSO Act in Appeal Concerning Mentally Challenged Victim. Mental Age of Adult with Cerebral Palsy Considered for Applicability of Special Procedures under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012.

The case concerned a criminal appeal by the prosecutrix, a 38-year-old woman suffering from cerebral palsy (R. Hemiparesis), through her mother. An FI...

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Supreme Court Modifies High Powered Committee Recommendations in Chardham Highway Project Case to Balance Development and Environmental Protection. The court held that widening of highways in ecologically sensitive Himalayan region must be subject to strict environmental safeguards and monitoring.

The case concerns the Chardham Mahamarg Vikas Pariyojna, a project by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways to widen approximately 900 km of nat...

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Supreme Court Directs Universal CCTV Installation in Police Stations and Constitution of Oversight Committees to Prevent Custodial Violence. Failure of States to Comply with Earlier Directions Leads to Comprehensive Monitoring Mechanism.

The Supreme Court, in a special leave petition concerning the implementation of its earlier directions in Shafhi Mohammad v. State of Himachal Pradesh...

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Supreme Court Upholds Medical Negligence Finding Against Hospital and Doctors for Failure to Conduct ROP Screening on Preterm Baby Leading to Blindness. Compensation Enhanced for Child's Total Blindness Due to Negligent Omission of Mandatory Retinopathy of Prematurity Check-Up.

The case arises from a consumer complaint alleging medical negligence against Maharaja Agrasen Hospital and its doctors for failing to conduct mandato...

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Bombay High Court Transfers Investigation of Custodial Murder to CBI and Directs Registration of FIR Against Police Officers. The court found that the victim died due to injuries sustained while in police custody and that the investigation by CID was not impartial, warranting transfer to CBI.

The petitioners, wife, father, and brother of the deceased Shaikh Muhammed Shaikh Rustam, filed a criminal writ petition seeking transfer of investiga...