Population Growth and Demographic Transition — Key Judgments

Key Judgments

Javed v. State of Haryana

2003

This Supreme Court judgment upheld the constitutional validity of Section 175(1)(q) of the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994, which disqualified persons with more than two children…

Suchita Srivastava & Anr. v. Chandigarh Administration

2009

While not directly about population control, this judgment affirmed a woman's right to make reproductive choices, including the right to procreate or abstain from it, as a…