The plea, filed through advocate H K Chaturvedi, has referred to the August 2018 verdict of the Delhi High Court which had decriminalised b...

“This doesn’t mean that railways will allow or encourage begging at stations and in trains. Decriminalisation doesn’t mean it will be legal...

Now, a person would be identified as transgender through self-identification and a certificate would be issued by the district magistrate.

Several people from across poorer regions migrate to urban areas around Ramzan hoping to get a share of zakat.

At the fag end of the year, the ghost of 1984 anti-Sikh riots returned to haunt the Congress with the conviction and life sentencing of its...

The court further said criminalising begging was a wrong approach to deal with the underlying causes of the problem and it ignored the real...

A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Jusice C Hari Shankar also observed that a person begs only out of "sheer necessity" and no...

The central govt, in an affidavit, said that at present, 20 states and 2 Union territories have either enacted their own anti-beggary legis...

The bill came in the wake of a 2014 Supreme Court judgment, which said those apart from the binary gender should be treated as the third ge...

Objective of the Bill is to provide protection, care, support, training and other services to persons in destitution and for establishing a...

Bill makes a distinction between beggary and syndicated or organised beggary, and says forcing any child or destitute into begging is a cri...

The government has drafted a bill that seeks to decriminalise beggary and offer a life of dignity to the beggars, homeless.

Tharoor saw "intolerance" among a section of the ruling BJP after his move to introduce a Bill for decriminalising homosexuality was reject...

The problem is match-fixing, not betting. Make betting in sports legal

"Not only does the criminal justice system largely victimise the poor and vulnerable sections of society, laws themselves criminalise pover...