Guest Blogger Bikram Jeet Batra In August 2008, I had written a short note on this blog about the Swamy Shraddananda judgment. This was part of a series of judgments in which the Supreme Court while...
Guest Blogger Bala Posani I recently had the chance to travel to Ahmedabad on a reconnaissance trip to explore the possibility of a certain research project. We wanted to know if Lok Adalat (People’s...
Justice S.Ravindra Bhat of Delhi High Court has just pronounced his judgment in the Supreme Court Judges assets case, holding the CJI as a public authority under the RTI Act. This landmark judgment...
Guest Blogger Kalyani Ramnath I followed the debate on honour killings with interest. Is ‘effective’ social reform only about higher conviction rates or is it also about community understandings...
Supreme Court has delivered its reasoned order on why the mentally retarded woman must be allowed to continue her pregnancy. The order can be accessed here.. I am reproducing the crucial passages in...
I wish to draw the readers’ attention to the PILSARC‘s blog, a commendable attempt by Dr.Rajeev Dhavan to make his published articles and comments on public affairs in the form of...
Arguments have concluded and the judgment has been reserved in the case before the Constitution Bench. Here is the latest SC order giving details of counsel who argued on behalf of various litigants...
One of the interesting by-products of the Judges’ assets controversy is that we came to know of Justice K.Kannan’s blog. Today, most newspapers referred to him as one of those who...
The decision of the Supreme Court judges to put their asset declarations on the Supreme Court website is a welcome first step towards transparency and accountability of judges in this country. It is...
The Supreme Court Judges, after a marathon meeting, have reportedly agreed to put details of their assets on the SC’s website. Here is the breaking story. The RTI applicant, Subhash C.Agrawal...