30-Jun-2025 Court Acts on Misinformation: FIR against channels for wrongly branding teacher a terrorist While court orders FIR for defamation and public mischief, CJP had earlier filed complaint with broadcaster highlighting defamatory, Islamophobic coverage
27-Jun-2025 “The law is a shield, not a weapon”: Orissa HC terms demolition without due process a civic wrong, orders 10 lakh compensation HC slams State for razing public centre despite court orders; warns against rise of “bulldozer justice”
20-Jun-2025 How the Rajubala case in the Supreme Court, its genesis and context has now become the ground for ‘state expulsion” A citizenship case challenging her husband’s prolonged detention — is now being used, despite contradictory state affidavits, to justify a sweeping post-May 2025 deportation drive
18-Jun-2025 Liberty, interrupted: How 27 Adjournments by the High Court led the Supreme Court to grant bail SC grants bail to a man whose bail plea was adjourned 27 times in the Allahabad HC
16-Jun-2025 The Sentinel and the Shift: Free speech in the Supreme Court An emerging jurisprudence of contradiction: the Supreme Court and the precarious state of free expression
13-Jun-2025 From Policy to Practice: Recent Supreme Court Judgments on Disability Rights Lapses Several Supreme Court judgements in 2025 and before that have placed renewed focus on the state’s failure on implementing Disability Rights
13-Jun-2025 गौहाटी हाई कोर्ट का असम सरकार को निर्देश: मई में पुलिस द्वारा गुप्त रूप से हिरासत में लिए गए दो लोगों की जानकारी दे इन दो लोगों के अचानक लापता होने और गिरफ्तारी मेमो न दिए जाने के बाद परिजनों ने हाई कोर्ट का दरवाजा खटखटाया। दोनों व्यक्ति पहले डिटेंशन सेंटर से रिहा किए गए थे और सुप्रीम कोर्ट के आदेश के अनुसार हर सप्ताह पुलिस थाने में हाजिरी दे रहे थे।
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