By Sujit Bhar In a landmark verdict with far-reaching implications for the country’s tribal communities and India’s environmental jurisprudence, the Supreme Court judgment concerning the Saranda forest in Jharkhand has emerged as a powerful precedent for how India can balance conservation imperatives with the constitutional and statutory protections granted to forest-dwelling communities. Delivered by a…
By Kenneth Tiven The sweeping dismissal of legal staff unwilling to pledge loyalty to US President Donald Trump has transformed the Department of Justice (DOJ) into what many career officials now call the Department of Retribution—a hollowed-out version of its historic role. What appeared as warning signs during Trump’s first term has hardened into a…
By Kumkum Chadha Ladakh continues to be restive. The violence has ebbed, but what has not is the frustration of the people in the hill state and the government’s targeting of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk. All pleas to release him have gone unheeded and Wangchuk continues to remain behind bars: “We believe he is innocent….
By Dr Swati Jindal Garg Reasserting that “there is a place for everything, and everything must be in its place,” the Supreme Court has once again pulled up trial judges for addressing requests directly to the apex court seeking extensions of time to complete trials. The Court emphasised that such communication must route strictly through…
By Dilip Bobb Recently, while delivering the Justice Sunanda Bhandare Memorial lecture, the chief justice of India admitted that the Supreme Court’s verdict in the Tukaram vs State of Maharashtra case—popularly known as the Mathura case—reflected a deeply regressive and patriarchal understanding of consent, effectively denying the social context of “power, coercion and vulnerability in…
The Supreme Court has refused to appoint an arbitrator in an international commercial dispute on the grounds that Indian courts did not have jurisdiction under Section 11 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, in cases where the main contract specified a foreign governing law and a foreign seat of arbitration. The Division Bench of…
The Supreme Court has released a comprehensive list of judicial appointments recommended by the Supreme Court Collegium during the tenure of Chief Justice of India BR Gavai, who is scheduled to demit office on November 23. The document has maintained the transparency protocol initiated during the tenure of former Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna,…
The swearing-in ceremony of Chief Justice of India-designate Justice Surya Kant on November 24 is going to be historic, with a record number of Chief Justices and senior judges from several neighbouring nations attending the event, marking a watershed moment in India’s judicial diplomacy. Scheduled to be held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, the ceremony signals the…
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai on Friday reaffirmed his opinion that the principle of creamy layer exclusion, introduced by the Supreme Court in Indra Sawhney vs. Union of India (1992) in the context of reservations for Other Backward Classes under Articles 15(4) and 16(4), must also be applied to beneficiaries within the…
The Delhi Police on Friday submitted before the Supreme Court that the accused in the larger conspiracy case leading to riots in NorthEast Delhi in 2020 planned to engineer political destabilisation in India on the lines of uprisings witnessed in neighbouring countries of Bangladesh and Nepal. Appearing for the Delhi Police before the Bench of…