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Data is real, true wealth: SC issues notice in yet another plea challenging DPDP Act; highlights privacy concerns
This petition, filed by journalist Geeta Seshu, along with the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC) that also challenges the constitutional validity of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 will now be heard with other petitions filed in the matter by Reporter’s Collective, Nitin Sethi and Venkatesh Nayak, on March 23
Places of Worship Act case: Jamiat-Ulema-i-Hind moves SC, pleads to be made party
A plea to declare section 4 of the act as unconstitutional is currently before the SC. Case could have ramifications for Gyanvyapi mosque and others
Plea in SC demanding transfer of funds from PM CARES to NDRF
The plea relies completely upon the Disaster Management Act, since the same has been invoked for dealing with the epidemic
Bombay HC seeks data on pending bail applications from district courts
This order was passed in a petition filed by PUCL, raising concerns over slow pace of decongestion of prisons, and availability of health care to inmates
Police fail to file chargesheet, Amulya Leona gets bail
She was thrown in jail for shouting allegedly pro-Pakistan slogans at a rally, earlier this year
Senior Advocate Yatin Oza moves SC against Gujarat HC’s suo moto contempt case
Oza had levelled some serious allegations against the court’s registry practicing favouritism while placing cases for hearing
Former Bombay HC judge Hosbet Suresh passes away
The legal luminary continued to be at the forefront of the human rights movement in India for 28 years after retirement!
J&K 4G restoration: Contempt petition against MHA Secy for not forming Committee as per SC order
The court had directed that a Special Committee be formed for reviewing the 4G restrictions in the UT
SC grant interim protection from coercive action to pvt employers for not paying full wages as per MHA order
The order has been challenged in various petitions and in combined hearing, the court has heard submissions of all parties, including the MHA, private employers as well as a representation from the workers; it has reserved its orders for June 12
SC issues directions to ensure migrants are transported within 15 days: Suo Motu action
The court has asked the police departments to keep a check on police excess and states to consider withdrawal of cases against migrants for flouting lockdown rules by moving back to home states when MHA had prohibited the same. The court issues special directions for Maharashtra alone and none to the Centre
For farmers deprivation of land can be traumatic, Telangana HC awarding compensation
The court invalidated the consent awards obtained under coercion from small farmers, awarded compensation for loss of land to an irrigation project, and in the absence of evidence in rebuttal, found that this may be a case of forceful dispossession of land.
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Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
An Adivasi woman once in bonded labour now serves her village as a Sarpanch
As India marks 50 years of the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976, cases of bonded labour still surface in states like Telangana where many workers in sectors such as agriculture, brick kilns, fishing and construction remain trapped in debt and coercion; here the author reflects on a transformative journey of an Adivasi woman who serves as a Sarpanch.
Rights
Abdul Sheikh Citizenship Case: Deportation stayed as Gauhati High Court Hears challenge to ex parte foreigner declaration, state to raise maintainability issue
Court allows preliminary objection while continuing stay on deportation; petitioner explains delay to challenge FT order through prolonged detention, lack of access to the detenue, financial constraints, and absence of legal aid
History
Bhagat Singh sent to gallows once again!
Repeated attempts by present day academics to whittle down the tradition followed and forged by young revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh are bound to fail; as history endures with the traditions laid by these very men
Gender and Sexuality
A Law of Identity, Passed Without Listening: Inside the Transgender Amendment Bill, 2026 and the crisis it has triggered
Framed as a measure of protection, the amendment shifts identity from self-determination to State approval, raising fears of exclusion, bureaucratic control, and the erosion of dignity recognised in constitutional jurisprudence
Rights
Intrusive and Unconstitutional: CJP’s dissent note on Maharashtra’s Anti-Conversion Law
Through this detailed critique and legal analysis of the hastily enacted Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Bill, 2026 (Maharashtra Dharma Swatantrya Adhiniyam 2026), CJP shows how it is both a serious intrusion on personal liberty, autonomous choice and religious freedoms but also gives a weapon to state agencies like the police to, along with other actors, become vigilantes into personal lives and behaviour
Labour
Telangana: Safeguard lakhs of Hamali workers, set by welfare board, citizens groups
Different sections of citizens in Telangana and organisations too have in a pithy letter to the Telangana Chief Minister urged the constitution of a Hamali Welfare Board to safeguard the interests of lakhs of Hamali Workers across the state, as per law and in consonance with the Congress Party Manifesto
Media
Delhi, Mumbai: Media organisations sharply criticise UNI eviction
The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ), the Editors’ Guild of India and the Mumbai Press club have sharply condemned the executive overreach that ordered the Delhi police to violently evict the staff of the UNI on March 20, 2026