45 witnesses took the stand during the trial where the 12-member jury returned a verdict of guilty after 10 hours of deliberations. The s...Read More
Apart from staying the three contentious farm laws enacted by the government despite vociferous protests from the farmers, CJI Sharad Bob...Read More
So, the MVA government has burnt the taxpayers’ money by defending Anil Deshmukh, engaging top lawyers Kapil Sibal and Abhishek Manu Sing...Read More
The moot legal point under the CoIA or UAPA is all witnesses are immune from prosecution for whatever they divulge to a judge in open cou...Read More
The Supreme Court rightly rejected a writ petition filed by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh challenging his transfer as...Read More
Sachin Vaze mocked the Constitution when after a review, Param Bir Singh, with the home secretary, allowed him to rejoin as head of the s...Read More
Nobody knows how the collegium selects judges. It is unlikely the collegium dissects the judgments of probationary judges in the high cou...Read More
Citizens cannot be jailed simply because they choose to disagree with state policies, said Judge Dharmendra Rana, while granting bail to ...Read More
The subordinate court opined there was no bar of limitation for a woman to complain in public about sexual harassment at the workplace be...Read More
Article 20 (3) of the Constitution prohibits any person accused of a crime from being a witness against himself, which does not include i...Read More
A judge, who was a deputy director of the state judicial academy, could not envisage the cascading effect her acquittals could have on th...Read More
The judges have pointed out that the media must report news without mixing opinion and comments. This will ensure that the people can for...Read More
Allegations that the microphones of opposition MPs were muted when the farm laws were passed have also been levelled against the Governme...Read More
Justice Sanjiv Khanna held that the Central Government did not give adequate thought to public concerns and not enough time for those who...Read More
The year gone by has witnessed the succumbing of the judiciary to state power with the insidious whittling down of secularism, which enca...Read More
The apex court could have set up a special vacation bench to hear arguments against the validity of the three alleged anti-farmer laws. I...Read More
The Consolidated Fund of Tamil Nadu will pay the salaries of Justices Kuppuraju and Valayapalayam. Each state has its own Consolidated Fu...Read More
Many countries mandate the use of simple language to ensure citizens’ access to government service
Ministers, MLAs misuse the law by approaching high courts and the Supreme Court to quash FIRs against them
The Union Govt had told Parliament in February that the words 'love jihad' were neither found in any existing law nor in the Constitution