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When the Rule of the Bulldozer Outpaces the Rule of Law: One year after this landmark judgment

In November 2024, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that no home can be destroyed without notice, hearing, and legal process. Yet across various states, the past year has shown how that standard is often treated as optional

Guj HC imposes Rs. 25,000 cost on ‘neighbours’ in Hindu locality opposing sale of property to Muslim man

While the court does not expressly mention this as a case of socio-economic  boycott, the bench saw through the intentions of the litigants who had no real legally valid objection to the sale of the property

Good governance state reports steady spiral in deaths in police custody in past 3 years: Gujarat

GANDHINAGAR: According to data provided by the Union government...

22-year-old jailed for life, Gujarat court comments on how cow’s urine can cure many incurable diseases & how problems on earth will be solved...

Charged with transporting cows and bullocks from Gujarat to Maharashtra under the stringent Gujarat Animal Preservation (Amendment) Act, 2017, a 22- year-old man sentenced to life imprisonment

Concerns raised over Sakal Hindu Samaj proposed event in Baramati

CJP has written to Maharashtra Police seeking preventive action the February 9 event and rally where Kalicharan Maharaj and Shankar Gaikar are invited as speakers

Gauhati HC sets aside ex parte order declaring woman as a foreigner after her death

The court granted relief to her son, whose citizenship was being suspected due to this faulty order that was passed after his  mother’s demise; the court deemed it unsustainable

Questions on Collegium haunt Budget Session; 18 names with SC for reconsideration

Kiren Rijiju, the Union Law Minister, has locked heads with the SC Collegium, sent back proposals, made attacking statements and suggested an overhaul in the judgesappointment system, repeatedly at public events

Bom HC restrains police from depicting Muslims as terrorists in mock drills

The bench has sought guidelines, if any, on basis of which these mock drills are conducted

Challenge to V Gowri’s appointment as Additional HC Judge dismissed: SC

The bench --Justice Sanjiv Khanna and BR Gavai --was disinclined to stay the appointment as it would set a wrong precedent; a reasoned order will follow

Student leaders made scapegoats, prosecution cavalier: Court discharges 11 in  2019 Jamia violence case

Not just did the court call the prosecution vicarious but held that the right to protest is an extension of the fundamental right to free expression (Article 19)

69,768 cases are pending in Supreme Court end 2022 & 53, 51,284 in various High Courts: UoI

The staggering pendency of cases has been dogging the Indian criminal justice system for decades and these details provided in the ongoing session of Parliament by the union government show that little has changed

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When the Rule of the Bulldozer Outpaces the Rule of Law: One year after this landmark judgment

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