The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has ordered the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, to bring back a woman who was recently deported to Pakistan. Following the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22, which claimed 26 lives, the Centre had decided to suspend visa services to Pakistani nationals and directed them…
By Kenneth Tiven The US State Department has quietly instructed embassies and consulates to adopt stricter social media vetting for student visa applicants. Under this directive, officials must comb through online accounts for signs of “hostility towards the United States”—a subjective filter that many see as a crackdown on free expression. This policy currently targets…
By Dr Swati Jindal Garg “Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.” —DH Lawrence The legal profession, often described as noble, is under renewed scrutiny. In a scathing observation, the Supreme Court has condemned the growing trend of newly designated senior advocates abandoning ongoing cases without prior notice…
By Sujit Bhar Freedom is a two-way street. If one has the freedom to do a thing, he surely has the freedom to not do it. This is a fundamental right, and the Supreme Court recently applied Article 19(1)(g) of the Constitution in the case of the right to carry out or not a business…
By Sanjay Raman Sinha Was it a strange coincidence that around the same time, two senior-most judges of the Supreme Court voiced concern over judicial overreach by Indian courts? Chief Justice of India BR Gavai held that while judicial activism is here to stay, it must not cross the line into what he termed “judicial…
By Dilip Bobb Sonam Raghuvanshi told her parents about Raj, the man she was in love with, and they responded in classic Indian parental style: they forced her to marry someone else. Raj Kushwaha was their employee and it’s likely they took issue with his caste/economic status/skin colour/profession or any of the other social taboos…
The Supreme Court on Monday showered praises on the State of Tamil Nadu for applying preventive detention laws against cybercrime offenders. While hearing a matter related to a cyber fraud worth Rs 84.5 lakh, the Bench of Justice Sandeep Mehta and Justice Joymalya Bagchi observed that the use of preventive detention laws against cyber law…
Following a huge backlash over summons issued to two Senior Advocates in relation to their legal opinions to a client, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has come up with a circular prohibiting its officials from issuing summons to lawyers in connection with their legal opinions. The circular said that no summons should be issued to any…
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear on an urgent basis, an application filed by former Delhi University Professor Hany Babu, an accused in the Elgar Parishad Maoist links case, seeking a clarification on whether he could approach the Bombay High Court for bail. On May 2, the High Court directed Babu to get…
By Inderjit Badhwar In a week dominated by grim headlines—from the collapse of yet another public structure in the capital, to fresh political turmoil and news of deepening divisions—one could be forgiven for thinking that the nation is adrift in chaos, incompetence, and confrontation. At India Legal, we know that news is not always uplifting….