(This is the first post of a 3-part series by Ujwala Uppaluri on the ‘right to privacy’ hearings before the Supreme Court of India. Ujwala is a graduate of NUJS Kolkata and Harvard Law...
The impact of section 377 of the Indian Penal Code is not measurable solely by reference to formal prosecutions resulting in reported decisions. As the Delhi High Court found in Naz Foundation v...
Guest Post by Abhinav Sekhri and Devdutta Mukhopadhyay A little storm is brewing in the Delhi High Court. A bench of two judges (Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal) issued...
(Guest post by Rupali Samuel) In light of the curative petitions in Suresh Kumar Koushal v. Naz Foundation, it has been argued by Shivendra Singh here and Alok Prasanna here that “one of the two...
[This post follows up on my previous post on this judgment on this blog.] In Koushal v Naz—the case being touted as one of its worst judgments—a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court recently...
I ended my earlier post asking the Court to review de-novo the jurisdictional basis for the Koushal appellants to maintain their case. In this post, I will go further and look at the text of the...
The Supreme Court’s recent judgment in Suresh Kaushal v. Naz Foundation on the constitutional validity of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalizes “carnal intercourse against the...
The following points struck me as the most problematic in what passes for legal reasoning in Koushal v. Naz: 1. The Classification test for Article 14: The classification test provides for very...
Vikram undertook a thorough and incisive review of the Delhi High Court decision in the Naz Foundation case in three remarkable posts on this blog. Since then, Arvind Narrain...
The Law Minister, in apparent agreement with the Delhi High Court’s verdict in Naz Foundation, has remarked that: We have a Constitution, many a times the Constitution runs parallel to many...