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The Guardians of the Ballot: Supreme Court hearing the legality of executive primacy in ECI appointments
Across two days of intense legal arguments, the Supreme Court scrutinising the 2023 Act governing the appointment of Election Commissioners, as petitioners argued that replacing the Chief Justice of India with a Union Minister creates a "Home Umpire" system, while the Bench questioned the limits of parliamentary power, counsel warned that executive dominance over the "referee" of democracy threatens the basic structure of free and fair elections
Rakhi for bail order: Petitioners move SC for directions
The petitioners submitted before the SC that such orders may result in normalising and trivialising what is essentially a crime
Dedicated courts set up to address Human Rights cases in Delhi
Very few states in the country have human rights courts as mandated by the law and the ones designated as such, are unclear about their jurisdiction and scope
End Custodial Torture: SC’s new comprehensive directions on CCTVs in police stations
The court has directed strict compliance in this regard while also passing specific directions pertaining to position of CCTVs, storage of recorded data, accessibility to the victim and so on
Delhi Riots accused granted bail: Court asks why constable waited until arrest to name him
Applicant cannot be made to incarcerate in jail for infinity merely other accused are yet to be identified and arrested in the matter, said the court
State Counsel appears to justify the hasty cremation of Hathras Victim: HC
The high court was told by the State that transferring the DM was a mere political issue and that he did nothing wrong in ordering the cremation of the victim
CPI (M) leader moves SC against order allowing non-locals to buy J&K land
The plea has sought the top court’s intervention and a stay on Centre's order until the petitions challenging changes to Article 370 are heard
Stick figure cartoons are a contempt of the Supreme Court!
Attorney General of india has consented to contempt proceedings against cartoonist Rachita Taneja for illustrations after Arnab Goswami case
TN custodial death report indicts police, hospital staff and jail authorities
The report was submitted to the Chief Judicial Magistrate in August, after which the case was taken over by the CBI, but the report reveals it all; the brazen dereliction of duty of the police, complicity of government hospital staff; tardiness and callous behaviour of jail authorities and more
Online post against SC and Muslim women, P&H High Court refuses bail
The HC noted that free speech does not entitle the accused to make derogatory remarks against any community or gender
Delhi HC grants pre arrest bail to rape accused who married Prosecutrix
The mother of the prosecutrix did not raise any objections during the hearing
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The Guardians of the Ballot: Supreme Court hearing the legality of executive primacy in ECI appointments
Across two days of intense legal arguments, the Supreme Court scrutinising the 2023 Act governing the appointment of Election Commissioners, as petitioners argued that replacing the Chief Justice of India with a Union Minister creates a "Home Umpire" system, while the Bench questioned the limits of parliamentary power, counsel warned that executive dominance over the "referee" of democracy threatens the basic structure of free and fair elections
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While emphasising gravity and custodial interrogation, Sessions Court order leans heavily on narrative of “organised influence”—raising concerns over evidentiary thresholds, criminalisation of religious interaction, and expansion of bail-stage reasoning
Rule of Law
“Reasonable Apprehension of Bias Is Enough”: Telangana High Court orders CBCID probe into SI’s death, reasserts constitutional demand for investigative neutrality
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Media
Caged Voices, Silenced Truths: FSC’s expansive indictment of India’s press freedom crisis
On World Press Freedom Day 2026, the Free Speech Collective (FSC) assembles a powerful, deeply layered account of repression, incarceration, and systemic silencing—centring the stories of jailed journalists Rupesh Kumar Singh and Irfan Mehraj to expose the widening fault lines in India’s democratic promise
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