Beyond Layoff

In a landmark judgement, the Kerala High Court upheld the conviction of a man accused of repeatedly raping his daughter which also resulted in her becoming pregnant.  A woman or girl being of easy virtue or habituated to sexual intercourse cannot be reasons to absolve someone of rape, especially a father who is expected to be the “fortress and refuge” of his daughter, the Court observed.  Upholding the sentence passed by the sessions court in Kalpetta, Kerala, the High Court has observed that when a father raped his daughter, it was ‘worse than a gamekeeper becoming a poacher or a treasury guard becoming a robber.’ The observations by Justice R Narayana Pisharadi came after the victim’s father claimed that he was being falsely implicated in the case as his daughter has admitted that she had sexual relations with another person.  Rejecting his claims of innocence, the high court further said that DNA analysis of the baby, born in May 2013 as a result of the sexual assault, reveals that

The topic of narrow, congested, ziz-zagging roads is a matter of fascination for Indians. Auto forums like this post ( link ), routinely debate the existence of a few straight roads in India.  A recent Supreme Court seems to concur with the popular opinion, and goes a bit further by wondering if retaining  trees and pathways,  zig-zagging  roads  would reduce the speed of vehicles and eventually  minimize accidents and save lives. Quoting a recent hearing in the Supreme Court, Dhananjay Mahapatra, Associate Editor with Times of India tweeted  UP PWD had filed an application in 2017 for cutting down 2,940 trees for the project and Central Empowered Committee had given clearance. SC asks UP to evaluate value of trees taking into account the cost of oxygen, that the trees would have given to nature in their life time. — Dhananjay Mahapatra (@toi_dhananjayM) December 2, 2020 The observation came during hearing of a plea by the Uttar Pradesh government to fell 2,940 trees for the Krishna