Advocate sayed

19/05/2022

Hon'ble Supreme Court In a significant judgment disapproving gender-based stereotypes, the Supreme Court held that the condition imposing a gender cap as to the number of women or men, who can perform in orchestras and bands, in licenced bars, is unconstitutional.

While the overall limit of performers in any given performance cannot exceed eight, the composition (i.e., all female, majority female or male, or vice versa) can be of any combination, the Court clarified, while allowing the appeal filed by a hotel challenging the restrictions imposed by Mumbai Police (Hotel Priya, A Proprietorship v State of Maharashtra and others).

The Court observed that the restriction capping the number of women performers emanated from gender-based stereotypes:
Hotel Priya A Proprietorship Vs State Of Maharashtra

19/05/2022

Girl leaving parental home with boy on attaining age of discretion is not kidnapping: Madhya Pradesh High Court
The High Court, therefore, set aside an order of trial court convicting the accused.

The Madhya Pradesh High Court recently observed that when a girl, who has attained the age of discretion, leaves her parents' house to be with a boy who facilitates the same, it will not amount to kidnapping or abduction [Manoj Sahu vs State of Madhya Pradesh].

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