24-May-2024 Supreme Court halts deportation of woman declared foreigner, issues notice to union and NRC coordinator Supreme Court seeks Assam Govt. and ECI response within 3 Months, says no coercive steps against petitioner till then
21-May-2024 Supreme Court lays down 7 Constitutional Tests for Land Acquisition Acquiring land without due procedure would be outside the authority of law, Supreme Court lays down 7 Constitutional tests for land acquisition
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
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
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
11-Mar-2024 SBI fails to comply in the electoral bond scheme case despite SC Ruling Judgement Primer: Electoral Bonds Scheme of 2017
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
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
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
08-Jan-2024 Bilkis Bano gets Justice: Supreme Court strikes down remission All 11 gang rape and murder convicts to surrender within 2 weeks
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?
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.