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Who owns Mumbai’s streets? The Bombay High Court, street vendors and a decade of regulatory failure
What began as a case about encroachments has become a searching inquiry into the State's failure to implement the Street Vendors Act, the rights of pedestrians and informal workers, and the growing role of identification and verification in urban governance
Protesting for release of GN Saibaba, Delhi students ‘assaulted’ by ABVP, cops
India’s premier human rights network, National Alliance of People’s...
State has no business to know if a person has changed religion: Deepak Gupta former SC Judge
This is the full transcript of the interview of former Supreme Court judge Justice Deepak Gupta with Manu Sebastian, Managing Editor of LiveLaw, on the sensitive subject of India’s anti-conversion laws.
Bilkis Bano review petition to be listed before Bench for consideration through circulation, says SC
Bilkis Bano has sought a review of the Supreme Court judgment which had paved the way for the Gujarat government to consider and release 11 convicts serving life sentence in her case
Remove scurrilous remarks against minority religions, SC tells Ashwini Upadhay: petition against ‘mass coversions’
A bench of Justices MR Shah and Ravinndra Bhat also stated that they would consider all interventions, those filed by Kerala Rationalist Association, some Christian organisations including activist John Dayal and former planning commission member Dr Syeda Hameed
CJP’s PIL seeking directions for established law & procedure on religious processions: A Factsheet
CJP Team -
While an MHA 2019 advisory, Indian criminal law and Arms Act as well as judgements & Judicial Commission Reports required implementation of strict norms and restrictions these were often breached, states the PIL
M.P. police: author of book on Collective Violence & Criminal Justice’ arrested from Pune
Following a diktat from MP’s home minister Narottam Mishra, the writer was arrested from a hospital
Saket Gokhale re-arrested, Mamata Banerjee slams Gujarat police & Election Commission
Late night on Thursday, December 8, Trinamool national spokesperson, Saket Gokhale was re-arrested and reportedly taken to an undisclosed destination after he had secured bail from a metropolitan court
Prof GN Saibaba Case: Supreme Court to hear Maharashtra Govt’s appeal against HC’s discharge order on Jan 17
On January 17, the Supreme Court of India will hear the Maharashtra government's plea challenging the acquittal granted by the Bombay High Court discharging former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba and others in an alleged Maoist links case, reported LiveLaw.
Collegium System is Law of the Land, Must Be Followed: Supreme Court to Centre
"Just because there are some sections of the society who express a view against the collegium system, it will not cease to the law of the land," the top court said.
Rajasthan Police files chargesheet in minor Dalit boy’s alleged murder by teacher
The Dalit boy was allegedly beaten ruthlessly by a teacher for drinking water from a Matka meant for the Upper Caste
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Who owns Mumbai’s streets? The Bombay High Court, street vendors and a decade of regulatory failure
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India
Defectors & Democracy: A critique of the Tenth Schedule of the Indian Constitution
The right of voters to recall representatives who defect—as seen in West Bengal, Maharashtra, Goa and Arunachal Pradesh—and the requirement of intra-party democracy could form part of a broader institutional redesign. Such measures would deepen democratic values and, above all, signal a refusal by citizens to accept the corruption of their mandate. These may be among the reforms that India's Parliament and democracy most urgently need
Gender and Sexuality
A regressive 2026 amendment to rights of Trans persons is under legal challenge even as pride month is celebrated
Unable to stay the statute, High Courts have charted a middle path—protecting petitioners already undergoing hormone therapy while the broader constitutional challenge awaits adjudication by the Supreme Court
India
The what’s & why’s of Data Centres and how are they hijacking the India Story
While countries such as Singapore and Sweden are curbing the environmental costs of data centres through regulation and innovation, India is actively courting these resource-intensive facilities with little regard for their water and energy demands. From Stockholm's waste-heat recovery systems to zero-water cooling technologies, solutions exist. Yet India continues to trade away land, water and public resources with scant consideration for environmental sustainability or local communities.
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Telegram before NEET: When governance fails, censorship takes its place
Invoking exam security to suspend access to a platform used by millions raises serious questions about proportionality, transparency and the growing tendency to restrict communications whenever governance challenges arise
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Yes, Savarkar did file 10 Mercy Petitions before the British, revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh refused to Compromise: Grandnephew tells Pune Court
Savarkar’s grandnephew who had lodged a criminal defamation case against LOP Rahul Gandhi, stated and admitted during his testimony that while there were other freedom fighters who refused to file clemency petitions before the British, his uncle Vinayak Savarkar had filed as many as ten!
Rule of Law
Court recognises mob lynching as aggravating factor, sentences seven to life for 2022 cow-vigilantism killing
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