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Why our legal aid system needs more female paralegals, better monitoring Nearly 80% of India’s population qualifies for legal aid, but since 1995, only 15 million have been provided legal services and advice by the Legal Services Institutions Current Affairs :In a community in Jhansi, around 300 km southwest of Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow, 14-year-old Seema* was explicitly attacked in February 2019. Rather than documenting a case, the police attempted to settle it through a conversation between the family and the blamed. A First Information Report (FIR) was documented simply after the blamed assaulted Seema a subsequent time, however the FIR was powerless and did exclude the applicable segments of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act (POCSO) and the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Under India’s lawful guide law, there ought to have been a paralegal volunteer at the police headquarters and the family ought to have been offered free legitimate guide to document a...

MP govt to move higher court to reopen murder case against Pragya Thakur Thakur and seven other accused were acquitted by a court in 2017 due to lack of evidence against them LokSabha Elections 2019 : The Madhya Pradesh government is wanting to revive an old homicide body of evidence against BJP hopeful Pragya Singh Thakur, multi day after leave surveys anticipated a triumph for her from Bhopal Lok Sabha body electorate. The Congress-drove government in the state will look for a lawful conclusion on reviving the homicide instance of ex-RSS pracharak Sunil Joshi, in which Pragya Singh was cleared, state Law Minister P C Sharma said Tuesday. Joshi was shot dead in Dewas region on December 29, 2007. Thakur and seven other charged were vindicated by a court there in 2017 because of absence of proof against them. The state government will request in a higher court to revive the Joshi murder case, Sharma said. The Dewas authority has been approached to present a report reg...