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Kerala High Court On Criminal Complaints By Women

Kochi: The Kerala High Court has held that in criminal cases, including sexual crimes, there is no presumption that everything the complainant woman says is “gospel truth” as nowadays there is a tendency to implicate innocent people in such matters. The observations by Justice P V Kunhikrishnan came while granting anticipatory bail to a man…

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Rules that still manacle the captive elephant

‘Civil society, temple committees and the government should lead the change to protect wild elephants’ | Photo Credit: THE HINDU/K.K. MUSTAFAH In India, where elephants are revered as sacred symbols of wisdom and strength, privately-held captive elephants live a stark contradiction. Reflecting on this grim reality, the Kerala High Court recently likened the lives of…

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