Asgar Ali Karbalai is angry, thanks to what he calls a “betrayal” by the government. “The Ministry of Home Affairs has backtracked and the Apex Body and the Kargil Democratic Alliance sees this as a breach of trust. It has gone back on its signed agreement and on what was negotiated and agreed,” he said….
By Kenneth Tiven America has just witnessed a political upheaval of historic proportions. Voters, increasingly disenchanted with the treatment meted out by an administration they see as authoritarian and beholden to powerful oligarchs, have delivered a stunning electoral rebuke to Donald Trump. In the process, they have challenged a political philosophy that appeared to discard…
By Sujit Bhar The Election Commission of India (ECI) has made another U-turn, a turn that drives a bulldozer into its carefully constructed narrative of why the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) that it carried out before the last few elections was necessary at all. In its most recent announcement, the ECI has said, or rather…
By Sanjay Raman Sinha When a bench of Justices PS Narasimha and R Mahadevan of the Supreme Court dismissed the Union government’s appeals in Union of India vs Rohith Nathan, it reignited a debate that has dogged India’s reservation policy for more than three decades: who exactly constitutes the creamy layer, and how should exclusion from…
By Inderjit Badhwar There is perhaps no more important test of a democracy than the manner in which it treats those who challenge authority. Governments are elected to govern, laws are enacted to maintain order, and institutions are established to protect the collective interests of society. But beneath this architecture of governance lies a fundamental…
National Green Tribunal (NGT) Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava highlighted India’s contribution to the evolution of global environmental jurisprudence, emphasising the role of judicial intervention, institutional accountability and effective enforcement in protecting biodiversity, at the 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP17) and the International Judicial Colloquium held in Yerevan,…
A Delhi court has rejected the second regular bail applications filed by Manoranjan D and Sagar Sharma, accused of breaching Parliament’s security on December 13, 2023, observing that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the allegations against them under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) are prima facie true. Special NIA Judge Kiran Bansal…
The Delhi High Court has refused to quash criminal proceedings under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, holding that a victim’s willingness to continue living with the accused, even when supported by her family, cannot override the statutory safeguards available to a minor under the law. Justice Sanjeev Narula observed that the…
Former Madras High Court and Calcutta High Court judge Justice CS Karnan passed away in Chennai on Friday morning. He was 71. Justice Karnan had been residing in Chennai and was undergoing treatment at a hospital following health complications. He reportedly died after his condition failed to respond to medical intervention. Born in 1955 in…
The Bombay High Court has reiterated that peaceful protests against administrative apathy cannot be met with criminal prosecution in the absence of material establishing violence or unlawful obstruction, observing that treating democratic dissent as a criminal offence would strike at the foundations of democracy. The Nagpur Bench of Justice MW Chandwani made the observations while…