27-May-2024 Bail under PMLA: Part 2 In our second piece on bail under PMLA, we focus on important developments in 2023-24
15-May-2024 Gautam Navlakha granted bail by Supreme Court in Bhima Koregaon case; orders him to pay 20 lakhs for the expenses incurred during his house arrest Noting that trial may take years to complete, SC bench of Justices MM Sundresh and SVN Bhatti refused to extend the stay on Navlakha’s bail
05-May-2024 CJP & PUCL: Citizen’s Human Rights Manifesto for India 2024 The One “DEMAND” is to repeal those laws that infringe the fundamental rights guaranteed to the people of India
04-May-2024 Inside CAA 2019: New Rules & Unresolved Questions CAA 2019 Explained: What do the notified rules reveal?
29-Apr-2024 Demands for prison reforms continue as SC pulls up States for failing to follow its directives on prison reforms and providing inadequate data on prison infrastructure Justice Kohli observed that dingy and overcrowded prisons make prisoners more ill, and living in such conditions is not the idea of punishment
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