By Binny Yadav For 36 years, Bijender Singh waited. Waited not for charity, but for justice. As a young jawan serving in the extreme cold of Siachen, he developed a severe neurological condition that ended his military career far too soon. But what followed was worse: years of official denial, bureaucratic apathy, and legal battles—all…
By Sujit Bhar It has been a while since the Supreme Court declared that the right to privacy was a fundamental right. This landmark decision had been delivered on August 24, 2017, and had come off the Justice KS Puttaswamy (retd) vs Union of India case. The nine-judge top court bench, headed by the then…
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed by a woman, claiming to be a descendant of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, and seeking possession of the Red Fort by virtue of her linage. Terming the petition as totally misconceived, the Bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justice PV…
The Andhra Pradesh High Court has ruled that once a person converted to Christianity, he/she could not invoke the provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Noting that the caste system was alien to Christianity, the single-judge Bench of Justice Harinath N ruled that once a person converted to Christianity,…
The Delhi High Court has decided to reshuffle and transfer judges in the courts falling under its jurisdiction, with a result Nine courts in Delhi would now get new Principal District & Sessions judges, following the Delhi High Court’s decision to reshuffle and transfer judges. Delhi High Court Chief Justice DK Upadhyay took the decision…
Time stood still on Saturday as topmost stakeholders of the Indian judiciary came together during the launch of Mediation Association of India and the First National Mediation Conference 2025, to bat for making mediation an intrinsic part of the country’s dispute resolution system. While Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna said that mediation delivered true…
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has delivered a fresh verdict in the antitrust dispute between Google and the Competition Commission of India (CCI), correcting an inadvertent error in its March 28 judgement. The Appellate Tribunal clarified on May 1 that directions 395.4 and 395.5, which required Google to maintain transparency in data collection…
By Vidushi Pandey Meera’s story, like that of Philomela from Greek mythology, is one of betrayal, silencing, and eventual defiance. Philomela’s tongue was cut off by her brother-in-law to suppress her voice, but she wove her truth into a tapestry. Meera, too, finds herself piecing together a narrative of trauma and betrayal—stitching together the fragments…
By Inderjit Badhwar It was a few years ago at a legal conclave in Mumbai, organised by the India Legal Research Foundation. I was seated in the bar-lounge with colleagues, waiting for the evening’s opening session. A simply dressed man entered the room—slightly lost, soft-spoken, and entirely unremarkable in appearance. I invited him to sit…
By Kenneth Tiven In just 100 days, US President Donald Trump has demonstrated that a real estate salesman in the White House will accentuate the positive, dismiss the negative, and call all criticism a conspiracy of enemies jealous of his “success.” With ad hoc, often impulsive decisions, Trump has thrown the nation—and the world—into a…