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Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework

Lucknow police stop interfaith wedding citing conversion laws!

Days after the UP’s Unlawful Religious Conversion Prohibition Ordinance is passed, right-wing elements begin using the law to prevent peaceful weddings.

Siddique Kappan’s arrest matter of ‘personal liberty’: Kapil Sibal to SC

Senior Counsel Kapil Sibal also offered to implead Kappan’s wife and daughter when the CJI wondered if a third-party organisation can espouse his cause

Delhi Police opposes bail granted to riot accused Jamia student to write exams

The State argued that many people study in jails and that Asif Tanha in the interim can be shifted to a guesthouse near the exam centre

Rakhi for bail order: Petitioners move SC for directions

The petitioners submitted before the SC that such orders may result in normalising and trivialising what is essentially a crime

Dedicated courts set up to address Human Rights cases in Delhi 

Very few states in the country have human rights courts as mandated by the law and the ones designated as such, are unclear about their jurisdiction and scope

End Custodial Torture: SC’s new comprehensive directions on CCTVs in police stations

The court has directed strict compliance in this regard while also passing specific directions pertaining to position of CCTVs, storage of recorded data, accessibility to the victim and so on

Delhi Riots accused granted bail: Court asks why constable waited until arrest to name him

Applicant cannot be made to incarcerate in jail for infinity merely other accused are yet to be identified and arrested in the matter, said the court

State Counsel appears to justify the hasty cremation of Hathras Victim: HC

The high court was told by the State that transferring the DM was a mere political issue and that he did nothing wrong in ordering the cremation of the victim

CPI (M) leader moves SC against order allowing non-locals to buy J&K land  

The plea has sought the top court’s intervention and a stay on Centre's order until the petitions challenging changes to Article 370 are heard  

Stick figure cartoons are a contempt of the Supreme Court!

Attorney General of india has consented to contempt proceedings against cartoonist Rachita Taneja for illustrations after Arnab Goswami case

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Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework

Malegaon 2006 Blast Case: Bombay High Court rejects NIA’s ‘alternate narrative’, holds prosecution built on contradictions and inadmissible evidence

Holding that “diagonally opposite” narratives by investigative agencies cannot sustain a trial, the Court finds the NIA’s case rooted in retracted statements, hearsay material, and a legally impermissible reinvestigation—bringing the prosecution to a “dead end”

Delhi court orders FIR against Abhijit Iyer Mitra for sexually abusive posts targeting women journalists

Court finds tweets “sexually coloured,” prima facie intended to outrage modesty; directs police probe into X account and devices

From Cow Slaughter to “Public Order”: Allahabad High Court’s expanding use of preventive detention

Through detailed reliance on fear, timing, intelligence inputs, and administrative response, the Court stretches “public order” to justify preventive detention—raising difficult questions about liberty, evidence, and constitutional limits

From FIRs to “Corporate Jihad”: How the TCS Nashik case was transformed from an investigation into a communal narrative

As police probe serious claims of harassment, a parallel story of conspiracy and conversion dominates public discourse