The Aadhaar litigation will go down in history for being the second longest hearing in the Supreme Court of India. The case was heard for 38 days over a span of four months in which lawyers...
The following is a brief description of some procedural rules that a young litigator intending to practice on the Original Side of the Bombay High Court ought to be familiar with. This is obviously a...
The post is an attempt to anticipate the trajectory of decisions following the Puttaswamy judgment, in dealing with cases where the right to freedom of speech and right to privacy are seemingly in...
The piece analyses the shortcomings in the recent judgment of the Delhi HC which decriminalised begging and further suggests, that the Central Government should come with uniform central legislation...
Lynching is not a phenomenon of just one nation or one society. It is universal, multifarious, undemocratic and unjustifiable. It is an act of power which unfolds through indiscriminate violence...
The incumbent elected government in Delhi resumed power in 2015 with a conclusive mandate from the electorate. However, three years after being in office, it is still mired in complex and at times...
The Delhi High Court, in an order dated 27.04.2017, through Justice Endlaw directed Tata Sons Limited to serve summons through text message, Whatsapp and E-Mail to one of the defendants. This order...
The history of the queer movement in India has been a history of continuous contestation, redefinition, and re-evaluation, all leading to the altar of the nation’s apex court. Today marks the...
In this post, the author traces the history of Section 377 and the queer movement in India. Starting from the implementation of this section in the colonial era to Naz and Koushal judgment, this post...
There are some provisions in our statutes that have absolutely no reason for them to be there or for them to be drafted the way they are. This post terms such provisions as “ghost provisions”. The...
India has seen the rise of multi-crore economic losses caused due to wilful defaults and scams. Individuals like Vijay Mallya are responsible for a loan default worth almost Rs. 9,000 crore, Nirav...
The state of Assam has witnessed several violent protests over the last few months because of the proposed amendments to the Citizenship Laws of the country. Terming the bill as “Anti-Assam,” the...
“There is a tide in the affairs of men (sic), which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now...