Kerala High Court has allowed a 15 day leave to a life convict for undergoing In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) treatment to have a child on a plea moved by his wife.
The bench took a position that attempting to resolve the dispute between the parents will take time and in the meanwhile, the absence of a name would not be conducive to the welfare or the best interests of the child
The Kerala high court said that declaring such an act as an offence would amount to intrusion of a person's privacy and interference with his personal choice
The incident occurred while a bench comprising Justices Anu Sivaraman and C Jayachandran was considering the habeas corpus petition moved by the parents of the woman who was allegedly in a live-in relationship with Vishnu.
The court said it failed to understand why the government delayed such payments, which could have been done by the first or second week of every month.
The girls are expressing dissatisfaction with the discrepancy in hostel entry timings, as women are required to enter by 6:30 p.m., whereas the curfew for boys entering their hostel is set at 9 p.m.
The NSS had on August 2 carried out a 'namajapa' procession from Palayam to the Pazhavangadi Ganapathy Temple a few kilometres away in protest against Shamseer's alleged remarks about Hindu deity Lord Ganesha.
Zahad, a transman (born female but identifies as a man), and Ziya Paval, a transwoman (born male but identifies as a woman), form a transgender couple in Kerala.
Kochi: Muslim marriages under personal law are not excluded from the POCSO Act and sexual intercourse with a child, even if it is under the guise of marriage, is an offence, the Kerala High Court has said. The court denied bail to a 31-year-old man charged under the Act for allegedly abducting and impregnating a […]
A day after nine people, including five schoolchildren, were killed in a road accident on the Thrissur-Palakkad highway, officials of both -- the Motor Transport department and the Kerala Police -- are on a high alert and have started a thorough inspection.