Case Law

ERT Case Summary: Dalco Engineering Private Ltd v. Shree Satish Prabhakar Padhye & Ors with Fancy Rehabilitation Trust & Anr v, Union of India & Ors, [2007] 1886

On 31 March 2010, the Supreme Court of India, considering the cases of Dalco Engineering Private Ltd v. Shree Satish Prabhakar Padhye & Ors and Fancy Rehabilitation Trust & Anr v. Union of India & Ors, held that the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act 1995 was not applicable to private companies.

Paraskeva Todorova vs. Bulgaria (Application no. 37193/07)

On 25 March 2010, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), in the case of Paraskeva Todorova vs. Bulgaria (Application no. 37193/07), ruled that Bulgarian courts had discriminated against a Romani woman, by imposing an effective prison sentence and and motivating their decision to grant the supended prision sentence which was recommended by the prosecution in a way related to her ethnic origin, treating her less favourably on the basis of her Romani ethnicity.

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