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Convicts can’t be hanged secretly and hurriedly: Supreme Court

 NEW DELHI: Condemned prisoners also have a right to dignity, the Supreme Court has said holding that execution of death sentence cannot be carried out in an arbitrary, hurried and secret manner without allowing death row convicts to exhaust all legal remedies and meet family members. “Right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution does not end with the confirmation of the death sentence. Even in cases of death row convicts, their right to dignity must be protected,” said a bench of justices A K Sikri and U U Lalit while quashing the execution warrants of a young woman and her lover, convicted for killing seven members of her family including a 10-month-old baby in Uttar Pradesh in 2008. The court’s observations assume significance in the context of the hue and cry raised by human rights activists after Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged in the capital’s Tihar jail in 2013 even before his family members could get the intimation. In case of

Supreme Court's direction on Transgender - RBI advises all banks to make changes in forms to provide for Third Gender

Rights of transgender persons – Changes in bank forms/applications etc RBI/2014-15/572 DBR.No.Leg.BC.91/09.07.005/2014-15 April 23, 2015 All Scheduled Commercial Banks (Excluding RRBs) Dear Sir/Madam Rights of transgender persons – Changes in bank forms/applications etc. It has been brought to our notice that transgender persons face difficulties in opening accounts as there is no provision for them in the account opening and other forms. 2. in this connection, banks are advised to refer to the judgement dated April 15, 2014 of the Supreme Court in the case of National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India and others [AIR 2014 SC 1863: (2014) 5 SCC 438] on treating all transgender persons as ‘third gender’. The Supreme Court, in that case, upheld transgender persons’ right to decide their self-identified gender and directed the Centre and State Government to grant legal recognition of their gender identity such as male, female or as third gender. 3. Banks are, t

New Companies Act 2013 & CSR Committee - Independent Directors - Guidelines by ICSI

FAQs on the Companies Act, 2013 © THE INSTITUTE OF COMPANY SECRETARIES OF INDIA Disclaimer: These FAQs are academic interpretation of the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 and rules made thereunder. Due care has been taken in the preparation of responses to reflect true intention of the law. However, the Institute shall not be responsible for any loss or damage resulting from any action taken on the basis of these responses. Date: August 19, 2014 Institute of Company Secretaries of India (iii) FAQ’s on the Companies Act, 2013 1. Whether the subsidiary of a foreign company be termed as public company or private company as per the Companies Act, 2013. In terms of MCA General Circular no. 23/2014 dated 25th June 2014, an existing company, being a subsidiary of a company incorporated outside India, registered under the Companies Act, 1956, either as private company or a public company by virtue of section 4(7) of that Act, will continue as a private company or publi