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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 unresolved concerns 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.
Manipur High Court: Right to cast vote an integral part of Article 19(1)(a), affirms voters right to know criminal antecedents
As legal status of the right to vote remains ambiguous, a judicial pronouncement of a constitutional court declaring the same as a fundamental right is the need of the hour
“Can have communal overtones’: Delhi High Court turns down permission for “Muslim Mahapanchayat” on Oct 29
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to grant permission to an organization to hold a public meeting (All India Muslim Mahapanchayat) at the Ramlila Ground on October 29.
Retired civil servants file petition against Forest (Conservation) Amendment Act, Supreme Court gives Centre 6 weeks’ time to respond
The plea argues that the amended act is unconstitutional and runs contrary to the existing principles for environmental law in India.
Contrary to what many might think, the FIR is a public document
After a whole day of raids across the country...
Eradicate manual scavenging completely says SC increasing compensation to families of workers who die at work to Rs 30 lakh
‘Each of us owes to this large segment of the population, who have remained unseen, unheard and muted,’ the court said.
SC orders for establishing ICCs at hospitals, nursing homes, sports institutes, stadiums, etc. to deal with incidents of sexual harassment at workplace
The bench also issued a slew of specific directions for better implementation of POSH Act
Delhi HC: ED does not have the power to arrest on their “whims and fancies”
A single judge bench of the HC limited power of arrest that the Enforcement Directorate has under Section 50 of the PMLA and re-iterated the three-fold conditions that the ED has to comply with to exercise their power of arrest
Kheda Flogging case: HC sentences guilty policemen to 14 days simple imprisonment, order stayed for 3 months
Bench quoted Mother Teresa while imposing a fine of Rs. 2000 on each of the convicted police officers
Tripura HC takes firm stand in case of persecution of Christian converts, orders state to take strict steps against harassing organisations
HC: “Persecution in the name of religion entirely unconstitutional, India is a secular country and everybody has the fundamental right to preach, profess and choose his own religion”
Sion, Mumbai: Police officers beat young student with stick while the boy decries innocence
Video on social media shows Ayaan Rizwan Khan being physically restrained and subjected to police brutality
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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 unresolved concerns 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.
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