Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Sunday emphasised that constitutional justice in India cannot be confined to the Supreme Court in New Delhi, underlining the pivotal role played by the country’s 25 High Courts in protecting fundamental rights, upholding the rule of law and ensuring accountability in the exercise of public power. Addressing…
Even as the Gandhis continue to make news, the dramatis personae have changed: the main characters are no longer the brother-sister duo, namely Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, both MPs; neither is it the mother-son pairing: read Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. However, the Gandhis remain the centerpiece, so to speak, but it is…
By Sujit Bhar The level of entitled behaviour among government officials has grown to alarming proportions. Officers, who get paid through public taxes, disregard the basic rights of the very people they have been employed to serve. The issue is so endemic today, at almost every level of government, that it fails to make news….
By Kenneth Tiven “Hire a clown and you’ll get a circus.” That was my brother Rick’s assessment of what lay ahead for America and the world after Donald Trump’s election in 2024, which promised domestic revenge and a second-term manifesto steeped in contempt for constitutional restraints. The approaching mid-terms suggest that many Americans have had…
By Deepabali Datta Every time a girl is assaulted, we hand our daughters yet another list of dos and don’ts. The Supreme Court’s latest directions call for more patrols, driver checks and safety audits, and every one of these measures is necessary. But they secure the door after the intruder has already entered. Who speaks…
October 6 witnessed what was described as one of the shortest hearings before a seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court—and one of the quickest disposals of a case. The irony was striking: a dispute that had languished in the Court for more than two decades was concluded in less than 10 minutes. Yet, the central…
By Inderjit Badhwar There is perhaps no greater test of a democracy than the manner in which it treats an individual whom the State considers inconvenient, threatening or dangerous. It is easy for a government to proclaim its commitment to liberty when dealing with compliant citizens. The real test begins when someone challenges authority,…
By Sanjay Raman Sinha The past few weeks have witnessed a spate of preventive arrests and detention measures, accompanied by judicial interventions granting relief to those affected. Across several cases, courts have questioned the indiscriminate exercise of State power, scrutinising the legal reasoning, necessity and proportionality underlying the use of preventive detention against peaceful dissent…
The Supreme Court has set aside the anticipatory bail granted to Karnataka IPS officer Srinath Joshi Mahadev, who is accused of involvement in an alleged extortion racket operating under the cover of the Karnataka Lokayukta Police. A Bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and Sanjeev Sachdeva observed that allegations of corruption against an officer serving in…
Reflecting on the six-decade journey of the Delhi High Court, Supreme Court Justice Vikram Nath on Friday spoke about the institution’s distinctive character, the stature of its judges, the quality of advocacy before it and its contribution to alternative dispute resolution, while also making a light-hearted reference to the court’s much-talked-about canteens. Addressing the inaugural…