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Judges go to class: SC asking an HC to send lower court judge for retraining highlights the jail instead of bail mess
May 4, 2023, 8:20 AM IST
In an extraordinary measure, the Supreme Court has asked the Allahabad high court to withdraw judicial work from a sessions judge and see to his retraining at the judicial academy. In truth, SC has only…
May 4, 2023, 8:20 AM IST
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Order, order: NJAC better than collegium. But the current GoI-SC standoff must end. Both must offer something to the other
December 1, 2022, 2:15 AM IST
The return of 20 names proposed by the Supreme Court collegium for judicial appointments – ten of those names were reiterated after being returned earlier – shows GoI has hardened its position in the current…
December 1, 2022, 2:15 AM IST
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A great show: SC allowing live-streaming of constitution bench hearings is a milestone in democratic journey
September 22, 2022, 2:20 AM IST
Imagine – India’s Supreme Court repeals the sedition law, making history, and you are watching it as it’s happening, although you are neither a lawyer nor a court official or even a regular court attendee,…
September 22, 2022, 2:20 AM IST
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Activists and Supreme Court denuded legitimacy of HC decisions
April 4, 2022, 8:26 AM IST
When Indira Gandhi government in 1975 bared its autocratic fangs in the darkness of Emergency to cower into silence erudite intellectuals, some remarkable High Court judges valiantly illuminated the inviolability of fundamental rights. The Supreme…
April 4, 2022, 8:26 AM IST
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Karnataka high court’s ruling on hijab: While the legal battles continue, India must rise above communal divides
March 15, 2022, 2:17 PM IST
The Karnataka high court has ruled that wearing of hijab is not an essential religious practice under Islam and thereby curbs on wearing it in educational institutions are a reasonable restriction under Article 25 of…
March 15, 2022, 2:17 PM IST
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To catch a tippler: Amendments won’t solve the administrative and judicial mess Bihar’s prohibition has created
March 10, 2022, 2:20 AM IST
Nitish Kumar’s ill-advised 2016 Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act is predictably creating trouble for the administration. Thousands have been arrested for drinking and then jailed. Police records indicate 3.8 lakh cases and 4 lakh arrests…
March 10, 2022, 2:20 AM IST
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Ordinances to extend terms of CBI and ED heads undermines Parliament’s authority
November 15, 2021, 12:09 PM IST
Around fortnight before the Parliament is to start its winter session, GoI promulgated two far-reaching ordinances. They empower the government with an option to extend the terms of the heads of CBI and ED, two…
November 15, 2021, 12:09 PM IST
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Is this Supreme Court’s finest hour? The fallout of the Pegasus order
November 5, 2021, 12:15 PM IST
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” wrote Winston S. Churchill his triumphal book ‘Their Finest Hour”. The…
November 5, 2021, 12:15 PM IST
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Pegasus case: Appointing a technical committee is the right step
October 27, 2021, 2:09 PM IST
The Supreme Court’s decision to appoint a technical committee to examine allegations about privacy violation of citizens using the spyware Pegasus is the appropriate way to proceed. The committee, which will be headed by a…
October 27, 2021, 2:09 PM IST
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The limits to right to protest in the eyes of the law – Part 2
October 8, 2021, 4:13 PM IST
A plea filed by a farmers’ body protesting against the three new farm laws, and seeking directions to the authorities to allow it to stage ‘Satyagrah’ at Jantar Mantar has come under attack from the…
October 8, 2021, 4:13 PM IST
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SC’s important reminder: The system should not be prying into the privacy of a couple
August 24, 2021, 11:34 AM IST
In response to a habeas corpus petition of the parents of a married woman, a Supreme Court bench has observed that, “As a system, we should not be prying into the privacy of a couple…
August 24, 2021, 11:34 AM IST
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CJI Ramana exposes a major fallout of rushing legislation without debate
August 16, 2021, 12:04 PM IST
Chief Justice of India NV Ramana’s grouse over bills hurriedly passed in Parliament and assemblies without debate and discussion merits the considered attention of lawmakers. CJI Ramana noted that these legislations are invariably half-baked and…
August 16, 2021, 12:04 PM IST
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Path to striking down sedition law still has many hurdles
July 18, 2021, 2:30 AM IST
Earlier this week, in the course of oral arguments at the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice of India questioned the continuing utility of the law of sedition. These observations came during the hearing of a…
July 18, 2021, 2:30 AM IST
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Zombie Law: Section 66A must not torment people anymore
July 9, 2021, 12:44 AM IST
It’s unfortunate that the Indian public has to deal with archaic laws that shouldn’t be on the statute books. But what happens when a scrapped law continues to be widely applied by the police and…
July 9, 2021, 12:44 AM IST
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From oxygen to triaging, don’t forget the public health emergency lessons from the second wave
June 25, 2021, 11:22 AM IST
The findings of the Supreme Court appointed National Task Force to maintain a strategic oxygen reserve must be urgently followed up to avoid a repeat of the crippling oxygen shortage witnessed during the second wave….
June 25, 2021, 11:22 AM IST
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May 24, 2021, 8:34 AM IST
The British won World War Two not just because of the leadership of Winston Churchill (whose greatest fan is the UK PM, Boris Johnson) but because of the national all-party government comprising the ruling Conservbative…
May 24, 2021, 8:34 AM IST
Kejriwal, Covid, gimmicks & tale of two cities
May 14, 2021, 9:00 AM IST
You can fool most of the people most of the time and the rest of them the rest of the time – Kejriwal dictum Two cities, Mumbai, and Delhi. Two dramatis personae, Iqbal Singh Chahal,…
May 14, 2021, 9:00 AM IST
Apex court must stop conversion of places of worship
April 18, 2021, 6:00 AM IST
A court in Uttar Pradesh has asked the Archaeological Survey of India to investigate the claim of a Hindu petitioner that the Gyanvapi mosque at Varanasi was created by destroying a Hindu temple. Another court…
April 18, 2021, 6:00 AM IST
March 29, 2021, 11:15 PM IST
When the Supreme Court ordered that borrowers who had availed themselves of a moratorium on servicing their loans during the pandemic should not be asked to pay interest on the unpaid interest, it did not…
March 29, 2021, 11:15 PM IST
March 23, 2021, 11:31 PM IST
The Supreme Court’s refusal either to extend RBI’s six month moratorium on loans being classified as non-performing or to grant a complete waiver of interest during the moratorium period is welcome. By upholding RBI’s stand…
March 23, 2021, 11:31 PM IST
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