Rule of Law

The acquittals took place despite directions by the High Court being seized of the matter since 2021 where the issue raised is of crucial documents including the FIR and other evidence had “gone missing”, of strict and fair procedures that need to be followed; this 2021 legal intervention by a journalist Qurban Ali, who covered the cold blooded massacre in 1987 and Vibhuti Narain Rai, an IPS officer who, as SP Ghaziabad had filed the FIR in the Hashimpura carnage the day before, in the High Court  will now be heard with the judgement of acquittal being passed without completion of trial procedure

The court in Panchmahal district said that the 190...

Despite several attempts in the previous century the real change came 50 years later, in 2005. However lack of implementation and societal patriarchy has still not meant that property rights have been realised by Indian Hindu women.

On this International Transgender Day of Visibility, CJP examines the Indian state's failures and successes in advancing the welfare of the transgender community

The High Court found significant faults in the police investigation and has urged prosecution of the errant officers who investigated the case

CJP wrote to the local police in both cities and sought preventive action against these rallies organised by right wing groups, whoever the police assured strict vigilance

The Court, inter alia, observed that protests had turned violent and the accused continued to be part of the protests that had turned violent

Ram Navami is going to be celebrated on March 30, however Delhi police wants to avoid a law and order situation in Jahangirpuri, given its ugly past

Though his conviction had been suspended by the court two months and four days ago, this action comes now only when the parliamentarian’s challenge to the Lok Sabha Secretariat is to be heard by the Supreme Court

The CJP assists another Assam resident who had received, for the third time, an FT notice for being a suspected foreigner and wins! The constitutional battle against arbitrary legal malpractice for the marginalised continues