The Gujarat High Court on February 2 permitted a 14-year-old rape survivor to medically terminate her 15-week pregnancy, stressing that every day’s delay would only deepen her trauma.

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The Supreme Court has restored a murder conviction in a 2003 road ambush case from Madhya Pradesh, holding that the High Court erred in diluting the offence to culpable homicide. The Bench found that the brutal assault, which left one man dead and several others injured, clearly amounted to murder under the Indian Penal Code.

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At the Srinagar wing of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court, a bench comprising Justice Sanjeev Kumar and Justice Sanjay Parihar on Thursday dismissed an appeal filed by National Insurance Company Limited. The insurer was seeking to overturn a compensation award granted to a family whose home was damaged during the devastating 2014 floods.

The case originates from a policy taken by late Shad Mohd Bashir, whose residential house at Sarai Payeen, Amira Kadal, Srinagar, had been insured since 2009. Though the policy was renewed annually, the company later claimed that it excluded flood and similar storm-related risks - referred to in technical jargon as “STFI” (Storm, Tempest, Flood, Inundation).