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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
Process should not become the punishment, keeping people behind the bars can’t be the solution: SC judge SK Kaul
Justice Kaul advised Trial Court Judges to handle bail pleas with urgency
Article 32 cannot be invoked to enforce all disputes relating to the Places of Worship Act: SC
In case of disputes among same religious denomination, Trial Courts to be approached to seek remedy
Right to free speech and expression includes the right to publish and circulate one’s opinions: Delhi HC
Court held that right to free speech and expression under Article 19(1)(a) includes the right to comment on content created on social media or on television channels
Gyanvapi case: Arguments continue in Allahabad HC
Case adjourned by HC to August 17; hearing expected to take place today before district judge in Shringar Gauri case
Krishna Janmabhoomi case: Allahabad HC stays case seeking removal of Shahi Idgah
Respondents issued notice and given eight weeks to file counter affidavits, and petitioners four weeks after that to file rejoinders
Undertrials three times the number of convicts in UP jails
Nearly 850 undertrials have been behind bars for over 10 years without being pronounced guilty
Essence of Khalid, Sharjeel’s speeches was to create sense of fear among Muslims: Prosecution opposed Umar Khalid’s bail
Prosecution claims Khalid wanted to get international media attention
TN Archeological Dept. concludes Salem temple idol is of Buddha, Madras HC halts Hindu prayers
Petitioners had demanded archeological investigation and restoration of temple property to Buddhists, claiming that what was originally a Buddhist temple had gradually been turned into a Hindu one
UP: SI subjects Muslim man to 3rd-degree torture in cow-slaughter case
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Upon not finding the accused, the SI picked up the accused's distant relative Farad Hakim, 40, a resident of the same village.
UP: Finding No Evidence, Police Set to Release 6 Persons Arrested ‘in Haste’ After Kanpur Violence
Recently, a Saharanpur court had ordered release of 8 persons due to lack of evidence. They, too, were jailed after a protest against Prophet remarks made by BJP leaders.
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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
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.
Politics
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
India
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
By expressly recognising mob lynching as an aggravating circumstance, the judgment strengthens accountability for vigilante violence and underscores the application of collective liability principles under Section 149 IPC