Law & Justice

2,192 days later and government gives no answers; senior advocate Shyam Divan, appearing for one of the petitioners, said it has never been an accepted practice to seek deferment of proceedings before a constitution bench

The Supreme Court in a 3:2 judgement upheld the validity of the constitutional amendment that enables upto 10% reservations for EWS in education and public employment

The court  also rejected  ED’s application to stay the order in the Patra Chawl redevelopment project; HC also refused an urgent hearing for stay

Majoriatrian supremacist groups have created a conflict around this place of worship from April 2022

SC Upholds lower court’s decision quashing seven-fold increase of tuition fee in private medical colleges

Between criticisms of opaque-ness and an absence of transparency to concerns of brazen interference from an Executive that has shown no regard for Constitutional basics even niceties, the Collegium system of appointment of Judges is once again in public debate

Recent statements, particularly strident from India’s minister for Law and Justice, Kiran Rijiju, an Arunachal politician previously groomed under Amit Shah’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) offer a powerful throwback to similar attempts by a previously authroritarian government in the lead-up to the Emergency in the 1970s.

Calling the order as “punitive action”, High Court ordered for the removal of the 45 second music clip of KGF movie used by Congress

Justice Ravindra Bhat and CJI UU Lalit, in the dissenting judgement held that by excluding SC/ST/OBC from EWS reservations, the basic structure of the Constitution as well as the Equality Code is violated

Case pertains to alleged airing of morphed video of child and family, Court cancels bail for intentionally avoiding appearance