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When the Rule of the Bulldozer Outpaces the Rule of Law: One year after this landmark judgment

In November 2024, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that no home can be destroyed without notice, hearing, and legal process. Yet across various states, the past year has shown how that standard is often treated as optional

Balancing Countervailing Rights: SC lays down guidelines for portrayal of Persons with Disabilities in visual media

The Supreme Court, on July 8, in the case of Nipun Malhotra vs. Sony Pictures Films Pvt Ltd [2024 INSC 465] has laid down a framework for the portrayal of Persons with Disabilities in visual media like cinema.

Apex court says excessive bail conditions, amounts to no bail

The bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Vishwanathan was hearing a petitioner’s request for joint sureties for multiple bail orders

CJP impact! CJP legal team aid Ranjina Bibi, defy all odds to prove her citizenship

Ranjina Bibi claims victory after year-long battle in the Dhubri Foreigners Tribunal where she was recently declared Indian, suspension of her citizenship was overturned

Bombay HC chastens Maharashtra Police for shoddy investigation in cases involving sexual assault against minors and women

In two separate judgements delivered by the Bombay High Court, the court said people should not be required to come out on streets to ensure that police act in cases involving sexual offences

Bombay HC orders state Social Welfare Department to take steps towards eradicating manual scavenging, encourages greater transparency and accountability

The Bombay High Court issued an order to the Maharashtra government to ensure greater transparency and accountability in its fight against manual scavenging as evidence presented in court contradicted the state's claim of having eradicated the practice, revealing ongoing instances of manual scavenging and associated fatalities.

Rape Horror: two gang-rape survivors die by suicide in UP & Jharkhand

A 16-year-old minor gang-rape survivor has died by suicide, apparently unhappy with the local panchayat’s decision in Jharkhand, in UP’s Ambedkar Nagar, a 21-year-old gang-rape survivor hanged herself after a police sub-inspector allegedly refused to register a case against three men for the crime, family alleged cops forced to change gang-rape FIR

CJP sent two preventive action complaints to Maharashtra Police

CJP flagged the recent incidents of communal violence in Maharashtra, erupted due to provocative and communal hate speeches by Sakal Hindu Samaj and Hindu Janajagruti Samiti’s leaders

Bareilly court orders action against police officials and complainant in fake conversion case

Additional Sessions Judge Gyanendra Tripathi remarked that the matter is worrying for civilised society and said the real culprits in the case are responsible police officials and complainant

SC: No compromise in POCSO cases, reverses HC verdict

Why are High Courts inclined towards encouraging “compromises” in POCSO cases that undermine the stringency of the 2006 Act? SC pulls up the Calcutta HC over its suggestion to decriminalise consensual sex

Allahabad HC: Religious converter, “Father, Karamkandi or Mulla” assisting in ‘forceful religious conversion’ can be prosecuted under UP anti-conversion law

Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal said religious converter by whatever name, bet it Father, Karmkandi, Maulvi or Mulla etc. is liable to be punished under the anti-conversion law if found facilitating ‘forceful conversion’

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When the Rule of the Bulldozer Outpaces the Rule of Law: One year after this landmark judgment

In November 2024, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that no home can be destroyed without notice, hearing, and legal process. Yet across various states, the past year has shown how that standard is often treated as optional

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Not Merry, Not Free: What the attacks on Christmas say about India’s shrinking pluralism

Vandalised decorations, disrupted worship, assaulted women and targeted children—Christmas 2025 exposes how majoritarian vigilantism, legitimised by silence and conversion panic, is reshaping public life

Peaceful street protest in Mumbai condemns Christmas-time attacks on Christians across India

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