The Supreme Court of India held that granting probation under the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958, does not erase the stigma of conviction. The Court said probation only substitutes the sentence, and the conviction remains, allowing departmental disciplinary action.
In a landmark ruling, the Rajasthan High Court has affirmed the rights of surrogate mothers to maternity leave, equating them with natural and biological mothers. Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand, presiding as a single judge, decreed that maternity leave cannot be denied to a mother on the basis that her child was born through surrogacy. This […]
