By India Legal Correspondent Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, member of Parliament from Srinagar and a prominent face of the National Conference, is no stranger to the political churn in Jammu and Kashmir. Once a close ally of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Ruhullah now finds himself distanced from his party’s core leadership—a shift he attributes to…
By Pawan Kumar “The Constitution is not a mere lawyer’s document; it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.” —Dr BR Ambedkar These prophetic words by the chief architect of the Indian Constitution hold enduring relevance as we mark 52 years of one of its most significant…
By Dr Swati Jindal Garg In a landmark suo motu case, the Supreme Court has intervened to address a staggering backlog: over Rs 1,085 crore in compensation remains unclaimed in Motor Accident Claims Tribunals (MACTs) and labour courts across the country. To tackle this, the apex court has laid down a set of mandatory procedural…
By Vikram Kilpady Later this month, the Delhi Assembly is expected to debate and pass the Delhi School Education (Transparency in Fixation and Regulation of Fees) Bill, 2025, a legislation aimed at curbing arbitrary and often exorbitant fee hikes by private schools—a longstanding grievance among parents. The Bill is being brought forward by the Delhi…
By Binny Yadav The recent 4:1 judgment of the Supreme Court—declaring that appellate courts may exercise “limited power” to modify arbitral awards under Sections 34 and 37 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996—marks a defining moment in India’s arbitration landscape. The majority ruling seeks to prevent manifest injustice without dragging parties back into fresh…
By Sanjay Raman Sinha The much-feared arrest powers of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) were thrust back into the spotlight recently when, on the agency’s Foundation Day, Additional Solicitor General (ASG) SV Raju issued a striking piece of advice. Addressing ED officers, he urged restraint—advocating for delayed arrests in money laundering cases and emphasizing the need…
By Annunthra Rangan How often can we truly say that war is justified? Rarely—perhaps never. At a time when the world is already grappling with devastating conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, the last thing anyone expected was the eruption of yet another confrontation. And yet, here we are—India and Pakistan, once again standing on the…
The Delhi High Court on Friday closed a defamation suit filed by pharmaceutical and food company Hamdard Foundation, alleging that Patanjali Ayurved Limited founder Baba Ramdev had used communal slurs to target its popular drink Rooh Afza. The single-judge Bench of Justice Amit Bansal had earlier directed both Patanjali Ayurved Limited and Baba Ramdev to…
The Supreme Court on Friday set aside a Delhi High Court verdict that ordered the deletion of a Wikipedia page on defamation proceedings initiated by news agency Asian News International (ANI) against Wikimedia on the grounds that the page was prima facie contemptuous and amounted to interference in court proceedings. The Bench of Justice Abhay…
Expressing its strong disapproval against a Deputy Collector for disobeying the High Court’s order and forcibly removing hutments in Guntur district in January 2014, the Supreme Court on Friday ordered the State of Andhra Pradesh to demote the government official to the post of tehsildar. The Bench of Justice B R Gavai and Justice Augustine…