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Delhi: Between Protection & Prayer: Stories of revered sites now under the protection of ASI

Ifrah Asim Shariya Ahmed Jess Jojan Devika Magu -
In Delhi, some monuments are not just remnants of the past. They continue to function as places of prayer, remain part of neighbourhood life, and exist within an ongoing struggle over who owns them, who maintains them, and who decides how they may be used. The authors examine the layered complexities involved
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

Three decades after the PoA Act, justice remains elusive

CJP Team -
A comprehensive 30-year review of the SC/ST Atrocities Act reveals a persistent gap between the law's transformative promise and the lived realities of Dalits and Adivasis confronting violence, discrimination, and impunity
Rule of Law

The Supreme Court in 2025: Deference, technicality and the retreat from rights

CJP Team -
From citizenship and reservation to encounter accountability, privacy, environmental protection and minority rights, the Court's most contentious judgments of 2025 reveal an increasing preference for institutional deference and procedural compliance over substantive constitutional justice
Rights

Who owns Mumbai’s streets? The Bombay High Court, street vendors and a decade of regulatory failure

Tanya Arora -
What began as a case about encroachments has become a searching inquiry into the State's failure to implement the Street Vendors Act, the rights of pedestrians and informal workers, and the growing role of identification and verification in urban governance
India

Defectors & Democracy: A critique of the Tenth Schedule of the Indian Constitution

A Legal Researcher -
The right of voters to recall representatives who defect—as seen in West Bengal, Maharashtra, Goa and Arunachal Pradesh—and the requirement of intra-party democracy could form part of a broader institutional redesign. Such measures would deepen democratic values and, above all, signal a refusal by citizens to accept the corruption of their mandate. These may be among the reforms that India's Parliament and democracy most urgently need
Gender and Sexuality

A regressive 2026 amendment to rights of Trans persons is under legal challenge even as pride month is celebrated

CJP Team -
Unable to stay the statute, High Courts have charted a middle path—protecting petitioners already undergoing hormone therapy while the broader constitutional challenge awaits adjudication by the Supreme Court
India

The what’s & why’s of Data Centres and how are they hijacking the India Story

A Legal Researcher -
While countries such as Singapore and Sweden are curbing the environmental costs of data centres through regulation and innovation, India is actively courting these resource-intensive facilities with little regard for their water and energy demands. From Stockholm's waste-heat recovery systems to zero-water cooling technologies, solutions exist. Yet India continues to trade away land, water and public resources with scant consideration for environmental sustainability or local communities.
India

The Biopolitical Anatomy of Hindutva Fascism: Part II: SIR, EVMs and the Judiciary

Solomon Mubash -
The Architecture of Exclusion: Necropolitics and the Hazardous CitizenTo understand the operational logic of contemporary majoritarian governance, we must look beyond the reassuring rhetoric...
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July 2026: A dissent that was brutally put down, a crackdown after the protest ended

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Permission to Protest? Why the right to dissent needs no licence

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In the light of the nation’s vibrant 100-citywide protests, the author, a legal researcher questions, why, the right (to protest) that is supposed to speak against power is, at its very threshold, made to genuflect before power (police permission)
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Bail Stays, But Under Tight Curbs: Delhi HC’s order in Parvez-Mehraj UAPA case

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