The Bombay High Court in Mohd Salim Mohd. Kudus Ansari (Shakti Mills case) recently upheld the constitutional validity of s.376E of the IPC that allows for the death penalty as one of the punishments...
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Yet another creation of crime!
This post discusses the approach in the Lok Sabha from regulating commercial surrogacy to criminalizing it and how such transition is in conflict with the guaranteed rights.
This post analyses the Supreme Court's attempt to reconcile its dominant liberalism/individualism based approach towards fundamental rights as against the group right claims under Article 26, in the...
In this post, Vivek Anandh thematically analyses the important doctrinal conclusions on the ‘Essential Practices’ test and its discursive impact on the constitutional jurisprudence in the context of...
In this post, the authors argue that while the Navtej Johar judgment is tool for social change, it may be unable to function as an effective measure for social acceptance.
This post is the concluding part of a three part series deconstructing the Sabrimala Verdict which opened the gates of temple to women devotees.
This post is the second part of a three part series deconstructing the Sabarimala Verdict which opened the gates of temple to women devotees.
This post is the first part of a three part series deconstructing the Sabrimala Verdict which opened the gates of temple to women devotees.
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 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...