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18-Feb-2025

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

18-Feb-2025

Uttarakhand High Court scrutinises UCC: Privacy, religious freedom, and tribal exclusion under debate Petitions against Uttarakhand UCC draw attention to Constitutional issues regarding personal autonomy and minority rights

13-Feb-2025

Section 498A: Misuse or inappropriate application? From 498A to Section 85 of the BNS, the debate over its misuse and necessity continues

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

10-Feb-2025

Forest Conservation Amendment Act, 2023: A challenge to Adivasi land rights and environmental protections The FCAA, 2023 undermines Adivasi land rights, increasing ecological risks, displacement, and weakening protections for Indigenous people

06-Feb-2025

Supreme Court pushes for domestic workers’ rights Ensuring fair wages, social security, and dignity for India’s domestic workforce

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

31-Jan-2025

The Uniform Civil Code (UCC) of Uttarakhand: Advancement in gender justice or violating individual liberties? Uttarakhand's Uniform Civil Code aims for gender fairness and legal uniformity but raises concerns over liberty, privacy, and religious freedom

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

15-Jan-2025

Breaking the cruel cycle of oppression: one more judgment against manual scavenging in India A judgment attempting, again, to end manual scavenging, and restoring justice for the most marginalised

13-Jan-2025

Revolutionising Juvenile Justice: Landmark case of Om Prakash v. State of Uttarakhand and its legacy The Supreme Court goes beyond procedural rigidities ensuring juvenile’s their rights

08-Jan-2025

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC): Urgent need for structural reform India's apex human rights body faces a credibility test as GANHRI defers its accreditation, with a decision due in March 2025

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