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From Protest to Petition: Maharashtra’s Public Safety Act in the dock
After months of state-wide protests, thousands of objections and sustained civil society opposition, Maharashtra's controversial security law now faces a constitutional challenge before the Bombay High Court
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Court recognises mob lynching as aggravating factor, sentences seven to life for 2022 cow-vigilantism killing
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By expressly recognising mob lynching as an aggravating circumstance, the judgment strengthens accountability for vigilante violence and underscores the application of collective liability principles under Section 149 IPC
Article 21 May Trump UAPA Bail Bar: Delhi High Court grants bail to Kashmiri rights defender Khurram Parvez after 4½ years in jail
In a significant ruling on liberty, prolonged incarceration, and the limits of anti-terror bail restrictions, the Delhi High Court held that constitutional protections cannot be rendered meaningless by endless pre-trial detention
Who decides who belongs? Detention, deportation and the crisis of due process
From Assam's alleged pushbacks to West Bengal's detention centres, India's expanding deportation drive is reshaping the lives of thousands while testing the limits of citizenship, legality and constitutional protections
No Crime, No Predicate Offence, No ED Case: Delhi High Court quashes proceedings against NewsClick
Holding that the prosecution rested on legally untenable allegations and a misconceived theory of criminality, the Court struck down both the EOW FIR and the ED's money laundering case, calling the investigation a "fishing and roving exercise" against an independent news organisation
UAPA: Delhi HC grants Bail to Kashmiri activist Khurram Parvez after close to 5 years in alleged terror funding case
After four years and seven months of arrest, and a year and six months since he filed his appeal in the Delhi HC in December 2024, the senior human rights defender has been granted bail subject to certain conditions, on June 10, 2026
The Supreme Court blinks when it comes to Hate Speech
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By declining contempt proceedings, denying guidelines, and acquitting the accused without inquiry, the Court in Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay undoes what it spent years building
Judgement delivered, paradox prevails: every voter a citizen, but what is the fate of 51.8 million excluded?
The Supreme Court’s May 27, 2026 verdict upholding the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) settles the legal question of constitutional authority but leaves many an unresolved concern on absence of due process and independent functioning by the ECI, the arbitrary abuse of process and access: questions of unreasonable and unchecked mass deletions etc.
Gauhati High Court treats documentary inconsistencies as fatal, upholds Foreigner Tribunal opinion
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Ruling underscores how Foreigners Tribunal cases in Assam continue to operate under a reverse burden framework that places the entire obligation of proving citizenship upon the proceedee
SC greenlights SIR, upholds ECI’s power to revise electoral rolls
The SC has upheld the ECI’s power to conduct SIR expressly stating that the contested process does not violate either election law nor rules; Court however directs that cases of voter exclusion should be provided routes and methods of adjudication
Himalayan Courts: Young folds & new cracks in environmental jurisprudence
This third part of a careful and exhaustive legal analysis looks at the environmental jurisprudence of the Himalayan High Courts over the last decade that reveals an unsettling paradox: the vocabulary of ecological protection has never been richer, yet the physical landscape has never been more legally vulnerable. The courts of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh have masterfully preserved the text of environmental law while pronouncing judgements that blunt its teeth.
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