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
19-Jan-2024 How and when the Supreme Court moved on Manipur: 2023 Despite urgent approaches by victim survivor groups in May 2023, while the Supreme Court was on vacation, it was after the sensational July 19, 2023 gender violence video that concrete and detailed orders were passed by the apex court
15-Jan-2024 De-coding the historic Bilkis Bano verdict Bilkis Bano has fought a challenging battle, she is one of the 1,958 Muslim women survivors of the targeted violence in Gujarat in 2002
04-Jan-2024 2023: India’s Bad Laws, what a weaponised state means for individual freedoms and indigenous rights Will the 30 bills passed without due process in four parliamentary sessions further curtail India's future rights and freedoms
18-Dec-2023 Bail not Jail, India’s constitutional courts’ bumpy ride towards personal liberty A retrospective glance at 2023: Have courts effectively safeguarded the diminishing right to liberty for Indian citizens?
30-Nov-2023 MAT highlights state’s duty under Transgender Act 2019 for Trans inclusion Tribunal eases age criteria, offers grace marks for transgender public employment, stops short of mandating state reservations
27-Nov-2023 Are Governors undermining democracy by holding up bills? Should concern mount over India's democratic functioning as Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala approach Supreme Court over routine constitutional procedures?
21-Nov-2023 How much reason is too much reason? Part III on Marriage Equality Judgement Uneven reasoning of the majority in denying the flow of rights
17-Nov-2023 Do all Indians have the right to a civil union? Understanding the Marriage Equality Judgement – Part II This part in the series examines what India’s Supreme Court has said on the Right to enter into a Union and the contradictions on this issue in the verdict.
15-Nov-2023 निगरानी के प्रयासों से निजता के अधिकार का हनन, निशाने पर चुनिंदा लोग, कानून की खामियाँ उजागर एप्पल की ओर से हालिया अलर्ट ने विपक्षी नेताओं और पत्रकारों पर राज्य प्रायोजित निगरानी हमले के मामलों को सामने लाकर सत्तारूढ़ शासन द्वारा प्रायोजित पेगासस का भूत वापस ला दिया है
09-Nov-2023 State-sponsored attempts at surveillance erode right to privacy, target specific persons and expose lacunae in legislation Bringing back the ghost of Pegasus malware by the ruling regime, recent alerts from Apple throw up more instances of a state-sponsored surveillance attack on leaders of the opposition and journalists
08-Nov-2023 How fundamental are our rights? An examination of the judgement in the Marriage Equality Case: SC This analysis delves into the contradictions within the verdict, highlighting disturbing precedents contradicting earlier court decisions