Judiciary | CJP

11-Jun-2025

Seeking sanctuary, facing scrutiny: Why India must revisit its approach to the displaced 75 years since the Constitution, India still lacks a refugee law aligned with international standards—and hasn’t ratified the 1951 Refugee Convention

06-Jun-2025

India: A deep dive into the legal obligations before “deportation” Deportation drives shrouded in secrecy, defying both domestic and international law

04-Jun-2025

Gauhati High Court directs Assam Government to disclose whereabouts of two men secretly detained by the police in May Families approached High Court after two detainees vanished without arrest memos; both men had been reporting weekly to police after release from detention centre based on SC orders

21-May-2025

Custody, Camaraderie, and Cover-Up: Supreme Court transfers custodial death probe to CBI, slams MP police for “shielding their own” In a scathing judgment, the Court denounces State inaction, delays, and intimidation of the sole eyewitness, reinforcing the constitutional demand for impartial investigation and institutional accountability

16-Apr-2025

Upholding Linguistic Pluralism: Supreme Court backs Urdu on Municipal signboard By upholding Urdu on a Maharashtra signboard, the Supreme Court reaffirms India's plural ethos and counters divisive language politics

18-Feb-2025

Factsheet: Victimology The evolution of victimology in India with legal reforms and landmark judgments

11-Feb-2025

Fundamental Rights Upheld: Court rules delay in communicating grounds of arrest violates due process Ensuring Due Process: Court reinforces the right to immediate disclosure of arrest grounds

10-Feb-2025

Supreme Court bans manual scavenging in metro cities Judicial action intensifies, but manual scavenging persists due to weak enforcement and systemic neglect

03-Feb-2025

Upholding procedural compliance, Supreme Court reaffirms electronic service of notices under Section 41A CrPC/Section 35 BNSS as invalid Supreme Court upholds due process, bars e-notices under Section 41A CrPC, and strengthens safeguards against arbitrary arrests

31-Jan-2025

Inconsistent enforcement of noise pollution laws? Bombay High Court's recent ruling: ban on early morning ‘azaan’; several other processions that cause noise pollution not under the scanner here

29-Jan-2025

Looking back at 2024: Constitutional Court rulings that undermine justice and accountability From a reluctance to protect life and liberty of individual citizens, especially political dissenters limiting transparency in electoral funding to dismissing serious allegations of corporate misconduct, key judgments and dismissals from the year raise concerns over the erosion of fundamental rights and the weakening of legal protections

28-Jan-2025

Divided bench, divided justice: SC delivers split verdict on Christian burial rights, fails to confront structural discrimination While the immediate burial dispute is resolved, the Court’s failure to address the discriminatory nature of segregated burial grounds reveals a reluctance to challenge systemic religious biases, leaving an unresolved question about the right to dignity and equal treatment in death.

20-Jan-2025

Supreme Court frowns upon the absolutely inadequate functioning of the RTI machinery Upholding accountability, resisting the erosion of justice by the powerful

13-Dec-2024

Supreme Court issues stay on suits on survey against religious places Interventions had highlighted the Act's intent to preserve India’s secular character

06-Nov-2024

Bulldozer Justice: SC orders Rs 25 Lakhs interim Compensation for illegal demolition by UP Govt in 2019 The Supreme Court directs UP Govt to pay Rs 25 lakhs interim compensation for illegal demolition. During the hearing, the bench, led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud expressed serious dissatisfaction with the conduct of the authorities, terming their acts "high-handed”

15-Jul-2024

Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill: Bogey of “urban naxals” invoked to legitimise clamping down of dissent? CJP dissects the MSPS Bill: Assessing its impact and risks amid existing laws

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