Search Results for Tag : Dignity
International Cases
Wrongfulness was to be established objectively, taking into consideration the legal convictions of the community(13.01.2023)
Appeal is against an order of the Eastern Cape, East London Circuit Court (the high court) which held the Democratic Alliance liable for damages for i.....
Tags : Dignity, Infringement, Damages
News
Delhi HC: Action Must be Taken When Criticism is Based on Distorted Facts to Lower Court's Dignity(22.07.2022)
Delhi High Court while observing that Judiciary is not immune from criticism, has held that such criticism cannot be based on distorted facts or gross.....
Tags : Delhi High Court, Court’s Dignity, Distorted Facts
MP HC Directs Man to Ensure Basic Necessities to Enable Girl to Live Life of Dignity(28.06.2021)
Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed a man wishing to be in a live-in relationship with an 18-year-old girl to make sure that he takes care not only.....
Tags : Madhya Pradesh High Court, Enable Girl to Live Life of Dignity
SC: Permitting Hand-Pulled Rickshaws is against Basic Concept of Human Dignity(07.08.2025)
Supreme Court has banned the practice of permitting hand-pulled rickshaws in Matheran and has stated that permitting such a practice, which is against.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Hand-Pulled Rickshaws, Human Dignity
Allahabad HC: Duty and Responsibility of Husband to Maintain Wife with Dignity(18.01.2022)
Allahabad High Court has observed that nowadays, it is extremely difficult to conceive that a woman would be in a position to maintain her with the am.....
Tags : Allahabad High Court, Maintain Wife with Dignity
Madras HC: Woman’s Dignity Linked to Right to Shelter; Orders Restoration of Demolished Home(24.04.2026)
Madras High Court directed compensation and restoration of a woman’s illegally demolished house, holding that her dignity is inseparably linked to the.....
Tags : Woman’s Dignity; Right to Shelter; Demolished Home
Supreme Court: Lawyers Have To Behave With the Dignity of the Profession(17.01.2025)
Supreme Court while objecting to a lawyer addressing the court from his car, has remarked that lawyers have to behave with the dignity of the professi.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Dignity, Profession
Bombay HC: Unclean & Unhygienic Toilets Affect Right of Every Girl Child to Live With Dignity(04.08.2022)
Bombay High Court has held that any failure on the part of authorities/concerned schools to provide for basic facilities of clean and hygienic toilets.....
Tags : Bombay High Court, Clean and Hygienic Toilets, Dignity
Supreme Court: Prosthetic Limb Costs Must Be Compensated To Restore Victims’ Dignity(23.04.2026)
Supreme Court held that compensation for motor accident victims must include prosthetic limb and maintenance costs, noting such devices are essential .....
Tags : Prosthetic Limb; Victims’ Dignity; Compensation
Delhi High Court: Calling a Woman 'R***I' Insults Her Modesty and Questions Her Sexual Dignity(19.09.2025)
Delhi High Court has held that calling a woman “r***i” attacks her character and sexual dignity, amounting to outraging her modesty. Justice Swarana K.....
Tags : Woman, Modesty, Sexual Dignity
SC: Judicial Independence can be Ensured as Long as Judges Live with a Sense of Financial Dignity(01.12.2023)
Supreme Court has observed that judicial independence which is necessary to preserve the faith and common citizens' confidence in the rule of law can .....
Tags : Supreme Court, Judicial Independence, Financial Dignity
Allahabad High Court: Rape Survivor Undergoes Two Crisis – the Rape and the Trial(09.01.2025)
All. HC has observed that a woman who is raped undergoes two crises- the rape & the subsequent trial. While the first wounds her dignity, curbs her in.....
Tags : Allahabad High Court, Rape Survivor, Dignity
Judgments
SC’s rancour over police’s disregard for individual liberty(03.06.2016)
Two women were awarded Rs. 5 lakhs each as compensation for humiliating and insensitive behaviour by the police. The Supreme Court admonished the Cybe.....
Tags : abuse of power, police, cyber cell, liberty, dignity
Allahabad HC: Denying Maintenance That Forces Wife into Destitution Violates Art 21 Right to Dignity(11.08.2026)
Allahabad High Court held that denying maintenance and forcing a wife into destitution violates her Article 21 right to live with dignity, observing t.....
Tags : Maintenance; Destitution; Right to Live With Dignity
Supreme Court Quashes Bail Condition Forcing Conjugal Life With Wife(04.08.2025)
Supreme Court struck down a bail condition requiring a husband to resume conjugal relations and to maintain his wife with dignity, calling it a violat.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Bail Condition, Conjugal Rights, Marital Autonomy, Dignity, Personal Liberty
J&K HC Revives PIL to Ensure Dignity & Equality to Persons with Disabilities(08.10.2020)
Jammu and Kashmir High Court has revived a Public Interest Litigation seeking necessary directions under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, .....
Tags : Jammu and Kashmir High Court, Dignity & Equality to Persons with Disabilities