Full Text: Supreme Court Judgment on the Sharing of Cauvery Waters
On February 16, 2018, a three-member Bench of the Supreme Court of India, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, delivered its ...
"Prosecution miserably failed to prove any charge": 2G Spectrum Case Judgment [PDF]
"There is no evidence on the record produced before the Court indicating any criminality in the acts allegedly committed by ...
Judgment: Supreme Court Sets Aside 'Talaq-e-Biddat' by a Majority of 3:2
The Supreme Court of India, on August 22, 2017, set aside the practice of Talaq-e-Biddat (triple talaq). An excerpt from the ...
Report on Medical Certification of Cause of Death 2015
In the year 2015, over one-thirds of deaths in India were caused by heart diseases, including diseases of pulmonary circulation ...
Multipronged Strategy Required to Tackle Corruption in Prisons
Prisons in Karnataka, or for that matter across the country, are struck by a serious malaise for several decades and the problem ...
'Both the corrupt and the corrupter are indictable and answerable to the society' : Supreme Court Judgment [Full Text - PDF]
On February 14, 2017, the Supreme Court of India delivered its verdict on one of India's most high-profile corruption cases in ...
Muslim Personal Law in the Present Context
Demands for a common civil code by sections of the polity have brought into focus some features of the Muslim personal law in ...
The available Cauvery waters will have to be divided on a pro rata basis: Duraimurugan
The Karnataka government's refusal to release water to Tamil Nadu despite a Supreme Court ruling has added a new and crucial angle ...
"If you do not like a book, simply close it. The answer is not its ban." - Madras High Court Judgment [PDF 676 KB]
Ruling in favour of a Tamil author, Perumal Murugan, the Madras High Court, on July 5, 2016, dismissed petitions which included ...
Mapping and its Discontents: The Geospatial Information Regulation Bill, 2016
The new Geospatial Information Regulation Bill proposed by the Ministry of Home Affairs attempts to regulate the flow of digital ...
Reservation in Educational Institutions: Who Gains from Abolishing the Common Entrance Test (CET) in Tamil Nadu
At a time when the need for and effectiveness of a Common Entrance Test (CET) to professional colleges is debated across the ...
Game of Competing Loyalties: Sporting Nationalism and NIT Srinagar
The institutionalisation of hyper-nationalism through sport is reflected in the oft-successful attempts by states to claim ...
Convictions should be based on fair procedure, not collective conscience: Aarushi Case Lawyer
How effectively does the criminal justice system in India work? Vasundhara Sirnate and Saptarshi Bhattacharya gleaned an insight ...
Modern Day Slavery: A Study of Tribals and Dalits as Bonded Labour in Brick Kilns
Scholars have analysed bonded labour in South Asia as a result of poverty, social exclusion, and the failure of state mechanism to ...
JNU Arrest: Not Just a Crackdown, It's a War on Democracy
Is the current tension between the students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and the Indian government unique? In this ...
Rights in Review - The Supreme Court in 2015
The responsibility of the Supreme Court of India in upholding fundamental rights as enshrined in the Constitution is unparalleled.
Rajasthan and Haryana Panchayat Amendments strike at the heart of Universal Adult Suffrage
The right to vote and the right to contest are central to the concept of citizenship in an electoral democracy. Individuals can ...
Jallikattu as a Spectacle of Patriarchy
Jallikattu has become a contentious issue wherein cattle protection and rights are interwoven with human identity politics in ...
Narratives of Dalit Inclusion and Exclusion in Formulating and Implementing the Forest Rights Act, 2006
This Report traces the narratives of inclusion and exclusion of Dalit forest-dwelling communities in the process of formulating ...
The Plight of Kashmiri Half-Widows
This report examines transitional justice in Kashmir from the perspective of a unique category of women. The insurgency in Kashmir ...
Uprooted From Democracy: Rajbala v. State of Haryana
The recent verdict by the Supreme Court of India, upholding an amendment by the Haryana government to prescribe minimum ...
Enabling Reporting of Rape in India: An Exploratory Study
This Report is an exploratory work seeking to answer the question ‘What enables reporting of rape in India?’ Under-reporting of ...
What December 6 Means for India
The demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992 by kar sevaks led by Hindu right-wing organisations reset India’s political discourse.
Rajiv Gandhi Assassins Remissions Case: Full Text of Judgment (Dec. 02, 2015)
On December 2, 2015, a five-Judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India rejected the proposal by the Government of ...
Bankruptcy Law Reform
An effective legal framework for insolvency that gives both entrepreneurs and creditors confidence that the path for exit is ...
Trapped between Law and Politics: The Law Commission of India’s Report on Death Penalty
The Report of the Law Commission of India on the Abolition of Death Penalty may appear to have shaped popular thinking in favour ...
Law Commission Report on Death Penalty
The Law Commission of India in its report on The Death Penalty has recommended that "the death penalty be abolished for all ...
Rape, Compromise, and the Problematic Idea of Consent
Why do rape victims turn hostile witnesses in court or settle for mediation with the perpetrators? Nithya Nagarathinam suggests ...
Amendments to the Child Labour Act: A Positive or Regressive Step?
Any attempt to eradicate to child labour must recognise the complexity of the issue and must address the range of direct and ...
When marriage is less than sacred
By appropriating female consent in sexual matters, misogyny denies women the right to stand up to sexual abuse from violent ...
Retrogressive Changes to Child Labour Act Should Be Withdrawn: Nina P. Nayak
The recent approval by the Union Cabinet to a set of amendments to the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (CLPR), ...
How India Failed Aruna Shanbaug
The life and death of Aruna Shanbaug, comatose for over four decades after she was raped, calls for a reexamination of India's ...
Jayalalithaa acquitted by Karnataka High Court in Disproportionate Assets Case
On May 11, 2015, the Karnataka High Court set aside a trial court's order convicting Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, J. Jayalalithaa, ...
What enables rape reporting?
The Nirbhaya agitation of 2012 not only removed the stigma surrounding rape but also gave women the hope that their complaint ...
Criminalising Beef, Not Dairy
Is the beef ban really about protecting animals? By challenging conventional notions of animal welfare that are deeply couched in ...
The banality of evil revisited
India’s Daughter, by telling us how particular rapists think, forces us to confront that this is what many men, from every ...
Rights in Review - The Supreme Court in 2014
The Supreme Court of India is the foremost guardian of fundamental rights and the spirit of the Constitution. While a lot of ...
Criminalisation of Politics
An analysis of candidate data compiled by the Association for Democratic Reform shows the degree to which criminalisation has ...
Telangana - Dealing with the Costs of Division: A Dialogue Towards Reconciliation
On September 21st, 2013, The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy organised a consultation in Hyderabad, "Dealing with ...
Twisted Willow: Gambling, Sport & Cricket in India
In the context of the raging controversy over the Indian Premier League betting and match-fixing episodes, there has been ...