A Delhi sessions court on Monday issued notice to former BJP MP and former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on an appeal filed by four women wrestlers challenging his acquittal in a sexual harassment case. Special Judge Digvinay Singh of the Rouse Avenue Court also issued notice to co-accused Vinod…
A plea has been moved before the Supreme Court alleging that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar took several decisions concerning the functioning of the Election Commission of India (ECI) without the concurrence of the other members of the poll panel. The petition questions the legality of decisions and directions allegedly issued without approval of the…
Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant on Saturday inaugurated four access-to-justice initiatives of the Bihar State Legal Services Authority, including the Victim Rights Centre (VRC), the VRC booklet, a dedicated helpline for the transgender community, and multi-utility vehicles to take legal aid to villages. Delivering the special address, CJI Surya Kant posed a foundational…
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has disputed Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien’s claim that deletions during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls affected the results in 31 West Bengal Assembly constituencies where the AITC lost. In its reply before the Supreme Court, the ECI said O’Brien’s figures improperly clubbed Absentee, Shifted, Dead…
By Inderjit Badhwar There are controversies that concern a government, a political party or an election. And then there are controversies that force us to look beneath the immediate political dispute at the machinery through which constitutional democracy itself operates. Our cover story belongs to the latter category. The Election Commission of India occupies an…
By Neeraj Mishra Forget Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi for a moment. The more recent blockbuster financial investigation has been unfolding far from the usual centres of corporate scandal—in Chhattisgarh, Dubai and the labyrinth of hawala and online betting. The Mahadev betting investigation, initially estimated at a few thousand crore rupees, has now…
By Kumkum Chadha It is rare for an ally to tell his principal partner to sit up and take stock of what is going wrong and that too do this publicly. But that is exactly what the lone Lok Sabha MP from Sikkim, Indra Hang Subba, did recently. He told the BJP that the students’…
By Kenneth Tiven US President Donald Trump took centre stage at the United Nations General Assembly this past week, providing a global audience with an embarrassing 20-minute performance that demonstrates the aging and fragile lawless dictator’s self-confidence. Stoic silence—bordering on shock—greeted him at every thought, highlighted by his locker-room-style remark asking: “Will a deal be…
By Sujit Bhar When the All India Trinamool Congress lost the 2026 West Bengal assembly election and was reduced to 80 seats, there was an initial school of thought that Mamata Banerjee, being the fighter that she has always been, would reorganise the party and perhaps return stronger from the defeat. Then came the unthinkable….
Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant on Friday held an unprecedented open-house interaction with law students at Chanakya National Law University (CNLU), Patna, engaging directly with questions from the audience in an unscripted dialogue on issues concerning students, the legal profession and the judiciary. The interaction, hosted at the university’s Ashoka Auditorium, was organised…