By Inderjit Badhwar Courts are expected to be the last refuge of reason in a democracy. They function not on popularity, but on constitutional principle, not on applause, but on evidence and law. Yet, in today’s digital age, a troubling inversion is taking place. Increasingly, judges themselves are being subjected to public trials on social…
By Sujit Bhar Justice Pankaj Jain of the Punjab and Haryana High Court recently delivered a judgment that should have been unnecessary in the first place. The Court held that a bomb blast inside a passenger train is an “accident” within the meaning of Section 124 of the Railways Act, 1989, thereby making the Union…
By Dr Swati Jindal Garg Albert Einstein famously observed: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” If the latest judgment of the Supreme Court is any indication, the judiciary appears equally unwilling to indulge repetitive litigation dressed in new arguments. In a significant ruling in Makardhwaj Ram vs…
By Sanjay Raman Sinha The Delhi High Court has delivered a strong message against digital misinformation, ordering the immediate removal of fake news reports and social media content that falsely implicated Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and several judges in an alleged taxpayer-funded trip to London for a badminton tournament. Acting on a plea…
By Jyotika Kalra A former government official accused in a Rs 645-crore financial scam walks out on bail because the charge sheet was not filed within the statutory deadline. At the same time, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) finds itself probing a death case that, under ordinary circumstances, would have remained within the domain…
If there is one question that stares in the face of every right-minded person it is: What is wrong with them? The “them” has two players: one in the USA and one in India: a president of a country and de-facto president of a political party: Donald Trump and Rahul Gandhi, respectively. So let us…
When the Union government walks into the Supreme Court to defend a constitutional amendment, fight a landmark tax dispute or respond to a challenge involving national policy, it is represented by a small group of legal heavyweights headed by the Attorney General and the Solicitor General. Their roles are among the most prestigious in India’s…
By Dr JP Singh The defining challenge of the twenty-first century may not be artificial intelligence, biometric surveillance, or the expansion of digital infrastructure. It may be something far more subtle: the gradual reduction of the human being from a conscious subject into a coded identity. As technology reshapes commerce, governance, communication, and social life,…
The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has designated 15 advocates, including six women, as Senior Advocates, in exercise of its powers under Section 16(2) of the Advocates Act, 1961, recognising their standing at the Bar, professional experience, legal acumen and contribution to the administration of justice. The designation has been made in…
The Maharashtra government has appointed Senior Advocate and Rajya Sabha member Ujjwal Nikam as the Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) to conduct the prosecution in the alleged murder case of Ketan Agarwal, who died after falling from a cliff near Lohagad Fort in Pune district earlier this month. The State has also approved the constitution of…