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Not a crime

Supreme Court struck down colonial-era law adultery.
Section 497 of the IPC: a man can file complain if his wife was cheating, but a women cant if the husband was cheating.
Adultery can be a ground for divorce.
It is only in a progressive legal landscape that individual rights flourish.
Rights-based social relations, instead of a state-imposed moral order.
Parliament should behave more proactively, rather than Courts dusting law books.
Shocking message: Parliament failed in its legislative responsibility to address them.

A fraught timeline

Bone of contention: Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in the 1994 judgment in the Ismail Faruqui case.
It had stated that “a mosque is not an essential part of the practice of the religion of Islam and namaz (prayer) by Muslims can be offered anywhere, even in open” .
A three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court in a majority opinion declined to refer the question to a 7-judge Bench.
What is essential or not in a religion can be decided only after studying tenets, beliefs, and doctrines.
The majority view: ordered that the hearing in the main Ayodhya title suit appeals should resume in the week commencing from October 29.
Justice Abdul Nazeer: Faruqui influenced the 2010 Allahabad high court verdict portioning the land three ways.
Article 15: fundamental right against discrimination.
Articles 25 and 26: protection guaranteed to practice, profess and propagate religion.
Muslim appellants had pressed that the place of a mosque in Islam

Idlib, the final frontier

Idlib: out of govt control since last 3 years.
September 17: Putin + Erdogan agreed to prevent an all out attack on Idlib.
Agreement: Establish a demilitarised zone along the line of contact between Idlib’s militants and regime forces, has averted an imminent humanitarian crisis.
Russia and Turkey getting closer.
Turkey, which already has 3.5 million of Syrian refugees.
Russia: supports Assad but don’t want to spoil with Turkey.
For not things are alright, but not a permanent solution for the crisis.
Syrian govt. wants to follow Aleppo model in Idlib.
HTS militants are battle-hard ideologically charged jihadists who were in the forefront of the conflict at least since 2013.
UN: 15k HTS in Idlib. • To pacify HTS, by Turkey, is going to be tough.
The Putin-Erdogan deal may have postponed a battle, but the war is far from over.

Finding an equilibrium

Although conceived and executively implemented during the UPA-2 regime, the project got coercive statutory backing only during the NDA regime, in 2016.
The court examined only whether the entire scheme was constitutionally valid under the nine-judge Bench enunciation of the right to privacy.
Decision of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha to pass the Aadhaar Act as a Money Bill
Article 110(3) of the Constitution deals with the definition of money bills.
The custody of the Consolidated Fund of India or the contingency fund of India, the payment of moneys into or the withdrawal of money from any such fund
Decision of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha is final. i.e courts, President, or either house cant challenge it.
Their Lordships also felt that some loss of privacy is constitutionally permissible to achieve the public good to the “marginalised sections of society” and there was a collective right to privacy which may override the individual right.
The majority decision offers a harmonious construction, but the dissenting opinion shows why this is not the only or necessarily the best way.

Important News

- Telangana comes under poll code after EC order
- Model code of conduct came into force following an Election Commission directive.
- The TRS government in Telangana had prematurely dissolved the Assembly earlier this month.
- The restrictions came into force only after the announcement of the election schedule by the Commission.
- Sabarimala temple entry verdict today
- The Bench has already remarked during the court hearings that a ban on entry of women at the Sabarimala temple is steeped in patriarchy and chauvinism.
- Uzbek President to invite India to join Afghan rail project –
- Railways to roll out smart coaches

‘Make in India’ smart coaches with new features like black box and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered CCTVs, matching international standards.

Financial News

Short-term rates fall as RBI eases SLR norms
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has allowed banks to consider a further 2% of their treasury holdings as high-quality liquid assets (HQLAs) under the Basel-III calculations, potentially releasing up to ₹2 lakh crore and soothing a market jittery about credit freeze.
In an early morning notification on Thursday, RBI increased the amount of statutory liquidity ratio (SLR) securities banks can consider as HQLAs to 15% of their total deposits from 13% earlier, potentially freeing up liquidity in the shortterm. Banks have to mandatorily invest 19.5% of their total deposits in government securities