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...
Ed Note: In this post, our analyst Mrityunjoy Roy, writes about the case of Najma v. GNCTD of the Delhi HC where it ruled that an Oral promise made by a CM or government functionary publicly is...
This explainer examines the stringent conditions imposed on the grant of bail under the UAPA and the recent judicial developments in that regard.
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...
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...
[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...
On Wednesday morning, Justice Ganpat Singh Singhvi donned his black robes one last time. The judge with a smiling face had a busy day ahead of him. After hearing several cases, he would attend a late...
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...
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...