Showing results for "family-law"
Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India
A Constitution Bench held that Section 377 IPC was unconstitutional insofar as it criminalised consensual sexual conduct between adults. The judgments grounded the result in equality, dignity, privacy and freedom of expression while retaining the provision for non-consensual acts and acts involving minors.
Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) v. Union of India
A nine-judge Constitution Bench unanimously held that privacy is a fundamental right protected as part of liberty and dignity under the Constitution, including under Article 21 and the freedoms guaranteed by Part III.
Shreya Singhal v. Union of India
The Supreme Court struck down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 because its vague and overbroad restrictions violated Article 19(1)(a) and were not saved by Article 19(2). It upheld Section 69A and the blocking rules, and read down the intermediary-liability provision in Section 79.