By Inderjit Badhwar There are anniversaries that ask us to celebrate. And there are anniversaries that ask us to pause. India’s 80th Independence Day is both. Eighty years after the midnight of August 15, 1947, it is tempting to measure the journey of the Republic in the familiar statistics of economic growth, military strength, technological…
By Pawan Kumar The Constitution of India is not merely the country’s supreme legal document. Of the thousands of laws that govern our daily lives, some inherited from the colonial era and others enacted by successive Parliaments, it is the one document that allows us to understand the deeper idea of India—its aspirations, its pluralism,…
Last week offered a striking reminder that a judgment is rarely the end of a legal battle. In four significant cases, courts revisited earlier findings, overturned acquittals or reopened questions that had appeared to have been settled. Taken together, they raise a larger and more uncomfortable question about the nature of judicial certainty in India:…
Law, by its very nature, has an evolving character. The fundamental test of a good law is not merely how faithfully it preserves the social arrangements of the past, but how intelligently it responds to the changing realities of society without compromising the constitutional values on which it rests. That tension between social change and…
The Supreme Court permitted the results of the Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) elections to be declared, while making it clear that the results will remain subject to the outcome of election disputes pending before Election Tribunals. A Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana referred all…
The Karnataka High Court has granted an interim stay on further proceedings against Public TV anchor and reporter Arunkumar Badiger, who was booked over remarks made during a televised debate on reservation, social justice and the Delhi student protests. Justice M. Nagaprasanna, sitting as a single judge, passed the order after examining the transcript of…
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition challenging the Andhra Pradesh High Court’s decision to quash the 2021 criminal case against Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and former minister Ponguru Narayana over alleged irregularities in the Amaravati land pooling scheme. A Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi…
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a plea concerning alleged acts of vigilantism and threats of rape and abduction faced by a participant in the protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. The matter was mentioned before Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, with counsel seeking urgent intervention in view of what was described as…
The Supreme Court on Friday quashed the criminal complaint and summons issued against Leader of Opposition and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over remarks he made against Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. A Bench of Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Sheel Nagu allowed Gandhi’s plea after noting that the requisite sanction for prosecuting him for the…
The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) has partially relaxed the market-access restrictions imposed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) and its former Managing Director and CEO Punit Goenka. A coram comprising Presiding Officer Justice P.S. Dinesh Kumar and Technical Members Meera Swarup and Dr. Dheeraj Bhatnagar passed…