24-Apr-2024 Don’t cross the line: Courts on media trials and erring conduct of anchors CJP looks at critical jurisprudence around media coverage on contentious issue, specifically the role and conduct of the anchor
16-Apr-2024 Allahabad High Court quashes FIR against couple accused of ‘conversion’ accusations, upholds freedom of choice The petitioners, who married under the Special Marriage Act, 1954, faced charges under IPC and state anti-conversion laws
05-Apr-2024 Legal Quagmire: Examining the inconsistent adoption rulings for Muslim families in India Inconsistent jurisprudence related to adoption for Muslim couples renders parents and the young rudderless
26-Mar-2024 Allahabad HC: Repeated rejection of police protection pleas of interfaith couples, here’s why this is problematic Interfaith couples and those without marriage registration proof in UP find themselves without constitutional rights recourse
22-Mar-2024 Supreme Court sets clear guidelines for dealing with habeas corpus pleas From ensuring privacy, safe environment and acknowledging social stigma to immediate hearing and interim relief
18-Mar-2024 Jignesh Mevani and 29 others acquitted in Ahmedabad rail roko case P N Goswami acquitts Dalit leader Mevani and others after finding inconsistencies in the prosecution’s claims
11-Mar-2024 SBI fails to comply in the electoral bond scheme case despite SC Ruling Judgement Primer: Electoral Bonds Scheme of 2017
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
05-Mar-2024 After a series of directions that the UP Govt did not follow, SC directs compliance & wholistic reparation UP government claims it has Initiated counseling for students in the Muzaffarnagar slapping case
20-Feb-2024 Editor’s Guild to MEITY: Press freedoms at risk, raises alarms over DPDP Act, 2023 Provisions of the act, violate privacy principles, threaten the very existence of journalistic activities in India
20-Feb-2024 Proposed Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, 2023: threat to free speech and media independence Government oversight risks stifling online free speech as broadcasting networks self-censor, threatening media independence
15-Feb-2024 Landmark Ruling: Supreme Court declares Electoral Bond Scheme unconstitutional in unanimous decision, citing violation of right to information The Constitutional bench, comprised of five judges, invalidates scheme and related amendments to RPA, IT, and Companies Act
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
05-Feb-2024 Supreme Court in 2023: Several steps forward, miles to go in the fight against hate Supreme Court's guidelines on curbing hate speech have fallen on deaf ears, so how can citizens ensure a hate-free 2024?
31-Jan-2024 A split judgment in the challenge against the 2023 IT amendments The right to freedom of speech and expression still hangs in the balance
30-Jan-2024 The courts and the Gandhi murder case: What happened on January 30? CJP analyses the historical judgements by the trial courts and the high courts