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Lok Sabha passes the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2016(16.12.2016)
In last lap of winter session of this year, Lok Sabha has passed Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill 2016, replacing the Persons with Disabiliti.....
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Notifications & Circulars
Exemption of service and disability element of disability pension granted to disabled personnel who have been invalided on account of disability attributable to or aggravated by such service(24.06.2019)
Under the existing provisions of clause (l) of sub section 2 of section 297 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 ('Act') any notification issued under sub sect.....
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News
SC to Centre: Sensitively Consider Plea to Include Disabled Persons in IPS, IRPFS, DANIPS Services(03.11.2022)
Supreme Court has asked Centre to sensitively consider issue of inclusion of disabled people to the Indian Police Service, Indian Railways Protection .....
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Madras HC to State: Make Tourist Destinations Accessible for Disabled(30.11.2022)
Madras High Court has directed State government to take steps and make all tourist destinations in Tamil Nadu accessible for disabled persons in accor.....
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Madras HC: Non-Provision of Certain Amenities for Disabled Inmate is Not a Serious HR Violation(02.12.2022)
Madras High Court while hearing plea for enhanced compensation for alleged human rights violation during arrest and subsequent time in jail, has held .....
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Supreme Court Slams Centre, Says Government Offices Must Be Disabled-Friendly(26.07.2018)
Supreme Court has slammed the Centre over non-compliance of its last year verdict of making public institutions disabled-friendly and said the Governm.....
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Delhi High Court Slams AAP Over Transport Facilities for Disabled(15.06.2018)
Delhi High Court has rapped the AAP Government for “not taking a single step for ensuring accessible transport to disabled persons in the national cap.....
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SC Orders All State to Formulate Policies for Uniform Compensation to Disabled Rape Victims(12.02.2016)
SC has directed all States and Union Territories to formulate a uniform scheme to provide compensation to the victims of sexual abuse and exploitation.....
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Bombay HC Directs Railways to Make Suburban Stations Disabled-Friendly(19.01.2017)
Bombay High Court has warned Railways that it will initiate contempt proceedings against General Managers of Central and Western Railways if it does n.....
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Bombay HC Directs Railways to Provide Facilities to Disabled Commuters(27.01.2017)
Bombay High court has directed Railways to provide facilities to disabled passengers travelling in local trains and CCTV cameras inside reserved compa.....
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Private Entities Duty-Bound to Ensure That Their Facilities are Disabled Friendly: Gauhati HC(08.04.2019)
Gauhati High Court has held that even a private entity has a duty to ensure that its facilities and services are friendly to the differently abled.
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Karnataka High Court Asks State to Ascertain Number of Visually Disabled Students in Schools(05.01.2022)
Karnataka High Court has directed the State government to carry out a survey to ascertain the number of blind students who are studying in government .....
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Supreme Court Grants Nearly Rs 50 Lakh Compensation to Disabled Driver of Deceased Punjab Minister(02.07.2019)
Supreme Court has awarded nearly Rs 50 lakh compensation to a man who suffered permanently disability in an accident while driving the car of the then.....
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Allahabad High Court Asks Centre About Policy for Vaccination of Physically Disabled(12.05.2021)
Allahabad High Court has asked the Central Government to come out with a plan for inoculation of physically challenged persons, who cannot visit the v.....
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Madras HC Directs State to Indicate Plan of Action for Vaccination of Physically Disabled(27.05.2021)
Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Government to frame a standard operating procedure for vaccination of persons who are unable to leave th.....
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Delhi HC Rules ‘Can’t Have Blanket Test for All Disabled Applying for Government Jobs’(02.11.2016)
Delhi High Court has said that there can't be a blanket test for all disabled applying for government jobs, terming it "impractical".
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Delhi High Court: Disabled Persons Do Not Have Substantive Equality(23.08.2017)
Delhi HC has observed that despite the constitutional guarantee of equality before law, the harsh reality is that disabled persons do not have any sub.....
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Delhi HC: Private Schools Must Follow RPwD Act and Give Reasonable Accommodation to Disabled Students(24.09.2025)
Delhi High Court stated that private schools are obligated under Section 16 of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, to take appropriate .....
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J&K HC Asks Centre to Take Effective Steps for Vaccination of Disabled Persons(01.07.2021)
Jammu and Kashmir High Court has asked the Centre and the Government of Jammu and Kashmir to take effective steps as per Centre's guidelines for vacci.....
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P&H HC Denies Pre-Arrest Bail to Father Allegedly Conspiring With Son Who Married Multiple Times(21.06.2022)
Punjab and Haryana High Court while denying anticipatory bail to the father in a case where he was allegedly acting in connivance with his son who mar.....
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Delhi HC Upholds Invalidation of Exclusion of Categories From Quota For Disabled Soldiers(12.09.2017)
Delhi High Court has upheld an order passed by a Single Judge invalidating exclusion of certain categories from the quota set apart for wards of soldi.....
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Supreme Court Raps Centre over Failure to Make Buildings Disabled-Friendly(25.11.2016)
Supreme Court has slammed Central Government for doing precious little to make Government buildings disabled-friendly.
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SC: Approach of Government and Regulatory Bodies Should be on Accommodating Disabled Candidates(16.10.2024)
SC has stated that the approach of the Government, regulatory bodies should be as to how best can one accommodate and grant the opportunity to the can.....
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Karnataka HC Directs Govt. to Provide Braille Text Books For Visually Disabled Students(28.09.2021)
Karnataka High Court has directed the State Government to positively provide textbooks in Braille for all special children (visual disabilities) withi.....
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Ker. HC: State Government to Implement its Monthly Scholarship Scheme for Disabled Children(02.04.2025)
Kerala High Court has directed the State to ensure strict compliance of its 2015 policy for persons with disabilities providing for monthly scholarshi.....
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Bombay HC’s Relief to LD Students(02.02.2016)
Bombay HC, while providing relief to Learning Disabled (LD) students, has held that such students will get student writers as their first preference a.....
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Bombay High Court Directs to Pay Lockdown Salary Dues to Physically Disabled Employees(29.10.2020)
Bombay High Court has repudiated the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation for issuing a circular withdrawing earlier exemption granted to physically dis.....
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Delhi HC to Courts: Be Sensitive to Disabled Witnesses(28.06.2016)
Delhi HC, while awarding a five-year rigorous imprisonment term to accused for molesting a deaf-and-mute minor girl, has said that courts must be sens.....
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SC: Right to Have Unobstructed & Disabled-Friendly Footpaths an Essential Facet of Right to Life(15.05.2025)
Supreme Court while directing States and Union Territories to frame guidelines for ensuring proper footpaths for pedestrians, has held that Right to .....
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