Summary: This article examines the Marital Rape Exception (MRE) in the context of live-in relationships, questioning whether the legal protections afforded to such relationships could inadvertently...
Summary: The Delhi High Court recently dismissed a case challenging a missing notification banning the import of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, presuming its non-existence. The author explores...
The Supreme Court’s judgment in Association for Democratic Reforms and Anr. v. Union of India and Ors. (“Electoral Bonds Judgment”) has been widely hailed as a democracy-affirming judgment, for good...
This post is part of a series on constitutional and political questions relevant to contemporary times written by Sughosh Joshi, a political researcher working with I-PAC. Sughosh also publishes a...
Summary: In the concluding arguments from the petitioner’s side on Days 8 and 9 of the hearings, the Court witnesses intense discussion on internal sovereignty, the impugned Reorganisation Act...
Summary: In Day 7, the arguments revolved around the interpretation of Article 370, especially if after 1957, the route to amend the article through its own provisions stood closed. Senior Advocates...
With the aim of enabling our readers to keep up with the Supreme Court of India’s day-to-day hearings for the significant case concerning the abrogation of Article 370, LAOT, in collaboration with...
Summary: The arguments for Day 5 continued the thread regarding the special status of the state in light of Article 370, with Sr. Adv. Zaffar Shah concluding his arguments and Sr. Adv Rajeev Dhavan...
On Day 3 of the hearings in ‘In Re: Article 370 petitions’, Sheikh Abdullah, Brexit, the UK, and Executive Power dominated the discussion in the petitions pertaining to the revocation of Article 370...
In the post-lunch session, the Supreme Court continued debating questions of constituent power, the difference between the nature of constituent assembly and legislative assembly, the permanence of...