16-Apr-2024 Calcutta & Bombay High Courts allow Ram Navami processions, direct organisers, police to ensure no display of arms or DJs, no breach of law and order Bombay HC also expressed its displeasure over the hate speech delivered by Nitesh Rane in January
07-Mar-2024 GN Saibaba released from Nagpur central jail after acquittal by Bombay HC Freedom at last as Saibaba and 5 others cleared of alleged Maoist links
24-Feb-2024 BJP MLA Raja Singh granted permission for Mira Road rally on Feb 25, subject to anti-hate speech conditions Following court order, CJP lodges follow up complaint with Maharashtra police, urging necessary action
06-Feb-2024 One step forward, two steps back: SC on Abortion rights A mother's struggle for abortion rights sparks Supreme Court drama, CJP looks at the October 2023 case
30-Aug-2023 From Judgments to Handbook: India’s Transformative Journey towards LGBTQIA+ Equality Exploring recent court rulings and the SC handbook's impact on queer and transgender rights
24-Jul-2023 Bombay HC advocates sensitisation of Maharashtra Police for handling couples in family conflict The court was hearing missing person complaint against same-sex couple by family
02-May-2023 CJP, other rights groups challenge Maharashtra Govt GR setting up a Committee to “monitor inter-faith marriages” The PIL challenges the December 15 GR on the ground that it is based on false assumptions of the real cause of intimate partner violence and argues that the right to privacy, the danger of state surveillance and executive overreach demand that this GR be first stayed, then quashed
03-Feb-2023 Bombay HC rules that married women may terminate pregnancies because of foetal health conditions A recent court case, ABC vs. State of Maharashtra, held that it was the woman and not the medical board who could make this decision under Section 3(2B) of MTP Act.
24-Dec-2022 The Best decisions from Indian courts: 2022 CJP examines key court rulings that have helped to advance human rights
23-Nov-2022 Bombay HC: Material does not inspire confidence that Teltumbde indulged in terrorist acts He has spent more than 2.5 years in prison under the stringent UAPA
03-Nov-2022 How political slogans are used to deny bail by high courts The denial of bail in the both the Jyoti Jagtap and Umar Khalid cases marks an all time low in UAPA jurisprudence
28-Sep-2022 Petitions challenging stringent provisions of UAPA to be heard by the SC The most recent challenge to the draconian counter-terror law will be heard, along with other previous challenges on October 18
10-Aug-2022 SC grants bail to Varavara Rao on medical grounds in Bhima Koregaon case Court does away with need to surrender after three months
14-Feb-2022 How courts have expanded jurisprudence for Manual Scavengers High Courts have largely contributed in getting justice to litigants in such cases
17-Jan-2022 भीमा कोरेगाँव मामला: मुंबई उच्च न्यायालय ने सुधा भारद्वाज को क्यों जमानत दी और सह-अभियुक्तों की जमानत अर्जी क्यों ख़ारिज़ की? गैर-कानूनी गतिविधि निवारक कानून (यूएपीए) में आरोप-पत्र का संज्ञान लेने में असमर्थता अभियुक्त को डिफाल्ट जमानत देने के लिए पर्याप्त नहीं है