The Supreme Court on Monday listed for May 14, a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. The matter came up for hearing today before the Bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, Justice PV Sanjay Kumar and Justice KV Viswanathan. After going through the counter and rejoinder,…
A Hindu organisation based in Kerala has filed a petition in the Supreme Court, challenging the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, on the grounds that threatened the very existence of the Muslim community in India. Filed by Sree Narayana Manava Dharmam Trust, which was established in 2023 to study the dissemination of values and teachings of…
By Col R. Hariharan Pakistani terrorists based in Pakistani-occupied part of Kashmir infiltrating across the Line of Control (LoC) and striking in Jammu and Kashmir is nothing new. According to the South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP) database, in Jammu and Kashmir alone in the last 25 years, 22,418 people have been killed in 12,040 such…
By Dilip Bobb The timing is grimly symbolic. As India seeks global solidarity in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack, another long-pursued figure of Pakistan-linked terror— Tahawwur Hussain Rana—was produced in a Patiala court, under tight security and NIA watch. His extradition from the United States, achieved after over a decade of legal and…
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…