08-Dec-2025 “Premier agency?” SC slams Assam Police for “appalling” two-year UAPA detention without chargesheet Court calls custody “blatantly illegal”; overturns Gauhati HC’s reliance on Section 43D (7) to deny default bail
08-Dec-2025 Humanity over Technicalities: SC ensures return of pregnant woman and child deported in June sweep Union agrees to bring back Sunali and her son after court’s intervention; High Court’s findings on procedural lapses remain central to upcoming hearings
28-Nov-2025 A Retreat: How the Supreme Court is redrawing the boundaries of hate-speech enforcement By calling them “small incidents,” the Court risks overlooking hate speech’s cumulative harm and its impact on equality and dignity
26-Nov-2025 राज्यपाल की मंजूरी पर संवैधानिक पुनर्व्याख्या: अनुच्छेद 200–201 पर राष्ट्रपति संदर्भ में सुप्रीम कोर्ट की राय अनिश्चितकालीन रोके जाने की व्यवस्था को ठुकराते हुए विधायी वरीयता बहाल, लेकिन गंभीर संवैधानिक खामियाँ अब भी अनसुलझी
24-Nov-2025 A Constitutional Reset on Governor Assent: The Supreme Court’s opinion in the presidential reference on Articles 200–201 Rejecting indefinite withholding, restoring legislative primacy, but leaves serious constitutional vulnerabilities unresolved
21-Nov-2025 मान्यता से अधिकार तक: सुप्रीम कोर्ट के जेन कौशिक फैसले ने भारत के कार्यस्थलों में ट्रांसजेंडर समानता का विस्तार किया SC के ऐतिहासिक फैसले में ट्रांसजेंडर के रोजगार के अधिकारों की पुष्टि की गई है, मुआवजे का आदेश दिया गया है और सभी संस्थानों में एक मॉडल समान अवसर नीति को अनिवार्य बनाया गया है।
18-Nov-2025 From Recognition to Rights: Supreme Court’s Jane Kaushik judgment expands transgender equality into India’s workplaces Landmark SC ruling affirms transgender employment rights, orders compensation, and mandates a model Equal Opportunity Policy across institutions
08-Nov-2025 From Special Laws to All Offences: SC makes written grounds of arrest universal requirement, arrest and remand illegal if not in language understood by arrestee Building on the Bansal and Purkayastha rulings, the Court set a uniform rule: all arrests must be backed by written grounds in the arrestee’s own language—or they’re void
31-Oct-2025 कैसे वन (संरक्षण) अधिनियम, 2023 में किए गए संशोधन, वन अधिकार अधिनियम, 2006 द्वारा आदिवासियों को दिए गए भूमि संरक्षण को कमजोर करने की कोशिश करते हैं: सुप्रीम कोर्ट संसद द्वारा पारित वन (संरक्षण) अधिनियम, 2023 में किए गए व्यापक संशोधनों की सुप्रीम कोर्ट द्वारा समीक्षा के साथ ही, आदिवासी और वन-निवासी समुदायों के अधिकारों पर पुनः एक गंभीर संकट मंडरा रहा है।
27-Oct-2025 How FCA 2023 amendments seek to undermine Adivasi land protections guaranteed in Forest Rights Act, 2006: SC Adivasi and forest dwellers’ rights face renewed threat as the Supreme Court reviews Parliament’s sweeping 2023 forest law changes
23-Sep-2025 The Shubha Case — recognising gendered realities in criminal justice The Supreme Court’s ruling in Shubha reflects a shift towards reformative justice that considers the social and psychological pressures affecting women offenders; while upholding the woman’s conviction for murder, the Court directed that she should be allowed to apply for pardon
18-Sep-2025 Supreme Court allows Mahesh Raut six weeks’ medical bail in Bhima Koregaon case In jail since 2018, Raut gets interim relief for arthritis treatment; regular bail still stayed by SC since 2023
18-Jun-2025 Liberty, interrupted: How 27 Adjournments by the High Court led the Supreme Court to grant bail SC grants bail to a man whose bail plea was adjourned 27 times in the Allahabad HC
16-Jun-2025 The Sentinel and the Shift: Free speech in the Supreme Court An emerging jurisprudence of contradiction: the Supreme Court and the precarious state of free expression
13-Jun-2025 From Policy to Practice: Recent Supreme Court Judgments on Disability Rights Lapses Several Supreme Court judgements in 2025 and before that have placed renewed focus on the state’s failure on implementing Disability Rights
04-Jun-2025 Evolving legal protections for survivors of sexual assault: Anonymity, privacy, and media regulation How Indian courts have responded to gendered violence and, over the years ensured that the privacy and anonymity of the survivor, or victim is protected