A Delhi court on Saturday rejected the bail applications of former JNU scholar and activist Umar Khalid and activist Sharjeel Imam in the Delhi riots larger conspiracy case. Additional District Judge Sameer Bajpai of Karkardooma courts dismissed the bail pleas filed by Khalid and Imam, who are accused in the alleged larger conspiracy behind the…
By Inderjit Badhwar The law has traditionally been viewed as a reflection of a nation’s history, culture and constitutional identity. Courts derive their authority from domestic constitutions, and judges are entrusted with interpreting laws within clearly defined national boundaries. Yet, in the twenty-first century, many of the issues confronting justice systems transcend those very boundaries….
By Vickram Kilpady While one was imagining the Indian bureaucracy’s python of red tape having exhausted itself on swallowing the voting rights of millions of disenfranchised citizens, up pops the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). Hold my beer! A day before the June 25 anniversary of the 1975 proclamation of Emergency, an MEA official put…
For millions of Americans, this Fourth of July is less a celebration than a requiem for an America they fear is slipping away. There was a time when Independence Day meant fireworks, parades, backyard picnics and the familiar rituals of patriotic celebration. Schoolchildren were taught a largely triumphant version of American history—one built around wars…
By Dr Swati Jindal Garg For decades, courtrooms have been places where facts are laid bare, identities are recorded, and judgments become part of the public record. Transparency has long been regarded as the cornerstone of justice. But what happens when openness itself becomes a source of lifelong harm? In a landmark judgment that could…
By Sujit Bhar The recent decision of the Delhi High Court permitting a 17-year-old boy to donate a part of his liver to save his father’s life is one of those rare judicial interventions where law, medicine, ethics and human emotion converge. Justice Mini Pushkarna’s order allowing the minor to become a living liver donor…
By Sanjay Raman Sinha Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant has used his first official two-nation overseas visit to place India’s judiciary firmly at the centre of global legal diplomacy. From forging a landmark technology partnership with Russia to championing the universal principles of equality and the Rule of Law in Sweden, the visit…
A petition has been filed before the Allahabad High Court challenging orders passed by courts in Agra refusing to appoint an Advocate-Commissioner to inspect the Taj Mahal and undertake photography and videography in a civil suit claiming that the monument is an ancient Hindu temple known as “Tejo Mahalaya”. The writ petition has been filed…
Many are perhaps unfamiliar with the story of Gaya Lal: a legislator from Haryana who switched three parties in a single day. Originally from the Congress, Gaya Lal defected to the United Front coalition and then returned to the Congress by the end of the day. It was then that a Congress leader said that…
India’s judiciary is preparing for what could become its most significant technological transformation, but with a clear constitutional safeguard: artificial intelligence will remain an assistant, never a judge. The Draft Regulations for Use of Artificial Intelligence in Courts, 2026, released by the Supreme Court’s AI Committee for public consultation, seek to establish a uniform framework…