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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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Visually Disabled Candidate Denied Job Gets Relief: Supreme Court Orders Appointment in Coal India Case (2026 INSC 53) Procedural technicalities like “expiry of recruitment panel” cannot defeat justice.

Sujata Bora, a visually impaired candidate, applied for a Management Trainee post in Coal India in 2019 under the disability quota. She cleared the se...

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Bombay High Court Quashes Transfer Order of Police Officer Mother of Child with Autism on Humanitarian Grounds. Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 invoked to exempt from routine transfer due to child's severe autism requiring constant maternal proximity.

The petitioner, Mrs. Devyani C. Naik, a Lady Police Sub-Inspector with 22 years of service, filed a writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitutio...

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Bombay High Court Dismisses Petition Challenging Denial of Admission to MBBS Course for Person with Locomotor Disability. Court Upholds Graduate Medical Education (Amendment) Regulations, 2019, Which Exclude Candidates with Amputation of Hand from Eligibility for Medical Courses.

The petitioner, Anita Prakash Shinde, a person with a left transcarpal amputation (60% disability), challenged the denial of admission to an undergrad...