Summary: The article analyses the case of Hari Devageeth v Union of India. It highlights the conflict faced by the court between two constitutional rights: a transgender man’s right to bodily...
The Supreme Court’s stay on the UGC Equity Regulations, 2026 raises a deeper constitutional question: must equality always operate symmetrically? Examining the Court’s concerns with group-specific...
Summary: The approach to ‘transformative constitutionalism’ in Bandhua Mukti Morcha vs Union stands in stark contrast to the rationale preferred in Balram Singh. The central issue concerns both...
This piece reconstructs the Indian religious freedom jurisprudence by proposing a harm-centred alternative to the ERP test. While endorsing the anti-exclusion principle articulated in Sabarimala...
The article critiques the Supreme Court's decision in Ramesh Baghel v. State of Chhattisgarh, arguing that the ruling is arbitrary and inconsistent, exposing its judicial endorsement of majoritarian...
This blog examines the constitutional validity of meat ban orders imposed during religious festivals across India, which restrict the fundamental right to freedom of trade under Article 19(1)(g). The...
Blurb: This article maps the four statutory criteria central to the sex-consent matrix, which render consent peripheral while elevating social control and sexual obligation. Thereafter, it reads the...
In this piece, the author analyses the constitutionality of the Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, 2023. While the bill aims at modernising broadcasting laws in India, it introduces a three...
Introduction On 29th December 2021, a Single Bench of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir [“J&K High Court”] quashed the detention order of Umar Fayaz Mir on the ground that all documents...
In a recent piece for Bar and Bench, Arvind Datar examines whether a fundamental right can be waived. I had long assumed that this question was settled in Basheshwar Nath’s Case. The Court...