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A deleted tweet, an NSA order, and the shadow of past crackdowns
The clarification may address the immediate controversy, but years of preventive action against movements have deepened distrust
From Outrage to Acquittal: The Raja Singh hate speech case comes to a close
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Mass protests, preventive detention, political fallout and four years of criminal proceedings culminated in the acquittal of Telangana MLA T. Raja Singh
Karnataka HC allows Hindu convention but bars invitee seer from speaking to prevent law-and-order concerns
HC permits the Basavadi Shiva Sharana Bruhat Hindu Samavesha to proceed while imposing stringent conditions, including an unprecedented cap on attendance and an absolute ban on hate speech
Judging the Judge: The communal backlash against a lynching verdict
A reasoned criminal judgment gave way to an organised campaign of communal abuse, threats and intimidation targeting the judge who delivered it
Not What the Court Decided: Re-reading the Bombay High Court’s passport judgment
The MEA's recent clarification on passport has centred on a single judicial decision that may not support the sweeping proposition now attributed to it
From Protest to Petition: Maharashtra’s Public Safety Act in the dock
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After months of state-wide protests, thousands of objections and sustained civil society opposition, Maharashtra's controversial security law now faces a constitutional challenge before the Bombay High Court
The Court spoke, the police paraded anyway
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The Rajasthan High Court's landmark judgment on public shaming was ignored within the month it was delivered; what have other High Courts said on this depreciable practice?
The telegram NEET case and the expansion of platform-level censorship in India
The Court's judgment marks a significant shift in Indian digital rights jurisprudence by accepting that the very design and architecture of a platform may justify extraordinary restrictions affecting millions of lawful users
The Supreme Court in 2025: Deference, technicality and the retreat from rights
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From citizenship and reservation to encounter accountability, privacy, environmental protection and minority rights, the Court's most contentious judgments of 2025 reveal an increasing preference for institutional deference and procedural compliance over substantive constitutional justice
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
Court recognises mob lynching as aggravating factor, sentences seven to life for 2022 cow-vigilantism killing
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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
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