Service -- Benefit of in-service quota - There is clear distinction between junior resident doctors and regularly recruited ESIC doctors - In-service quota is therefore, justifiably made available to regularly recruited ESIC doctors - Petitioners being junior resident doctors cannot claim parity with regularly recruited insurance medical officers in seeking benefit of..........
Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971, Section 3(2)(b), Medical Termination of Pregnancy Rules, 2003, Rule 3B -- Termination of pregnancy - Unmarried woman - Denying an unmarried woman the right to safe abortion violates her personal autonomy and freedom...........
Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971, Section 3(2)(b), Medical Termination of Pregnancy Rules, 2003, Rule 3B -- Termination of pregnancy - Petitioner moved High Court before she had completed 24 weeks of pregnancy - Delay in the judicial process cannot work to her prejudice...........
Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971, Section 3(2)(b), Medical Termination of Pregnancy Rules, 2003, Rule 3B, Constitution of India, 1950, Article 21 -- Termination of pregnancy - A woman's right to reproductive choice is an inseparable part of her personal liberty under Article 21 of Constitution...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376 -- Rape - Prosecution case for charge of rape cannot be thrown away only because prosecutrix is not examined when there is other reliable evidence supported by medical evidence...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 342 -- Rape - Medical evidence not supported the prosecution case - No injury was found in private parts of prosecutrix - Prosecutrix narrated the incident to her grandmother - However, grandmother of prosecutrix not examined - There is no evidence of prosecutrix on record - C.A report about vaginal swab of prosecutrix found to be in..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 506 -- Rape - Neither any medical evidence nor scientific evidence was available to corroborate the case of victim - No visible marks of violence were present on external part of body of victim or on sexual organs - Moreso, no hue and cry raised by victim after accused left her house - Father of victim was neither cited nor examined as..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 366, 376(2)(g) -- Kidnapping and rape - Sole testimony of prosecutrix - Incident occurred when prosecutrix and her husband were in fields to cut grass - However, husband of prosecutrix has not extended any substantial support to version of prosecution - Prosecutrix stated that she remained silent during the incident because she was..........
Armed service -- Disability pension - Question of entitlement of soldier to disability pension cannot be determined on the basis of medical examination conducted 20 years after his discharge...........
Armed service -- Disability pension - Respondent was discharged on administrative grounds and not on medical grounds - There was thus, no occasion for the Release medical Board or for that matter Resurvey Medical Board to give any opinion as to cause and nature of ailment of respondent - Moreover, claim of respondent for disability pension should not have been entertained..........
