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Reaffirming Open Justice: The Supreme Court on speech and contempt

In the case of Wikimedia v. ANI Media Private Limited & Ors. the apex court reaffirmed free speech and restrained a Delhi High Court order that was held, on examination to be disproportionate

Independent Views, Gender Orientation must not affect candidacy for judgeship: SC

Making public the union government's objections to recent recommendations by the Supreme Court (SC) Collegium, the latter has reiterated its earlier choices and recommended the elevation of 17 advocates and three judicial officers as judges of the high courts of Karnataka, Allahabad and Madras.

WFI leadership accused of sexual harassment by Indian women wrestlers, absence of redressal mechanisms the focus

The culture of harassment and impunity within WFI is underlined as Indian women wrestlers demonstrate outside Jantar Mantar

Rule of Law means Certainty that establishes Supremacy of the Constitution

Law, from any viewpoint, is the foundation of certainty,...

Bhima Koregaon case: 5 years on, charges not framed despite repeat extensions

The Special NIA Court has said that it will first need to dispose the discharge applications filed by the accused, before deciding on framing of charges

Gauhati HC overturns FT’s order declaring a resident of Assam as Foreigner

While quashing the order, the bench observed that the Tribunal did not appropriately consider the material on record

Not providing information amounts to smothering the very purpose of RTI: Guj HC

The Court directed the Ahmedabad Police to furnish Rules under the Gujarat Police Act and make available all laws which govern the Police, for public access, on their website

Executive’s attacks on Judiciary’s Independence condemnable, assault signals an authoritarian regime: PUCL

The strong and detailed statement issued by a civil liberties platform that saw its birth during the Emergency points out how during the arguments in the NJAC case, the union government refused to allow a neutral body to oversee appointments

Summoned by cops after he files RTI on RSS, victim approaches Bombay HC

The Bombay High Court's Nagpur bench recently issued notice...

How the dissent does not quite deal with insulation of judiciary from executive control: NJAC case

The dissent in the case by Justice Chelameswar – an analysis

Five more ‘love jihad’ laws challenged before SC

The apex court had issued notice when CJP had challenged the anti-conversion laws of UP, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh in 2021

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Reaffirming Open Justice: The Supreme Court on speech and contempt

In the case of Wikimedia v. ANI Media Private Limited & Ors. the apex court reaffirmed free speech and restrained a Delhi High Court order that was held, on examination to be disproportionate

Urdu is not the monopoly of mullahs, nor even the Muslim community 

Our self-styled “left liberal” intelligentsia, otherwise loud in denouncing Hindu majoritarianism, suddenly turned mute when confronted with Muslim right-wing pressure

Election Commission seriously risks losing all credibility: senior advocate Sanjay Hegde

Senior advocate, Supreme Court Sanjay Hegde on Saturday, September 6, raised concerns over the credibility of the Election Commission of India, cautioning that the institution is increasingly being viewed as partisan, speaking at the annual public lecture on the occasion of Gauri Lankesh’s brutal assassination

India’s Silent Push-Out: Courts, states, and the deportation of Bengali-Speaking Muslims

From migrant workers vanishing in midnight raids to a Kolkata man driven to suicide by fear, reports across states reveal a disturbing pattern of expulsions without due process — now under scrutiny in India’s courts

Safe harbour or shadow censorship? The battle over India’s digital speech

The Karnataka High Court’s ruling on X Corp’s challenge could either restore the centrality Section 69A as the sole content blocking mechanism, or re-ignite the issues that were closed in Shreya Singhal

The Mubarakpur Saree in the Digital Age: Can e-commerce bypass traditional barriers?

An age-old saree weaving tradition is also one area brutally affected by the US-driven tariff war with India