Accessible legal analysis for non-specialists — covering Supreme Court judgements, constitutional questions, criminal justice, labour law and the legal dimensions of social justice in India. Written by law students, practitioners and academics.
Home Minister Amit Shah promised to eliminate Naxalism by 2026, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) appears to be in steep decline. Maoist jan adalats bypassed due process, while the state relied on exceptional legal regimes, vigilante formations like Salwa Judum, and expanded use of the UAPA.
Prevention of sexual harassment at workplace should be seen from power and behavioral lens as much as legal lens.
Judicial cleavages significantly influence social justice, affecting rulings on rights and equality. The balance between activism and restraint, alongside transparency in appointments, is crucial for fair judicial processes.
The MTP Act, the PCPNDT Act, and the POSCO Act aimed at regulating abortions, female foeticide and sexual harassment lead to unsafe abortions in India.
Political Representation is integral to bring structural changes in the way the society is governed. Opportunities to women in politics promotes gender equality and makes way for more just and equal society based on policies and practices that cater to the needs of underprivileged women.
The literature at hand for the Constitution reads it as boundaries of the political community. These boundaries can be territorial (the geographical borders of a state, as well as its claims to any other territory or extraterritorial rights) and operating within the ambit of state.
The marital rape exception has had an enormous impact on the lives of women. While the offence is committed by the husband, it is the wife that is looked down upon by the family and society if she confesses about marital rape.
In order to remove this deficiency in civil law and keeping in mind the rights guaranteed under Articles 14, 15, 19 and 21 of the Constitution of India, the Parliament enacted the Domestic Violence Act to provide for a remedy.
As a generation affected and afflicted by a global pandemic, global warming has been wiped from public consciousness as a source of concern and corrective action but our ignorance in lieu of the pandemic should not be mistaken as a lapse in the grave issue of climate change. The temperature is rising, the snow is…
What we witnessed in 2019 was the rise of another constitutional jurisprudence and Kashmir was not the first or the last time it happened.
The Election Commission must always follow a certain conduct that ensures transparency and credibility of the institution.
Warden Duffy adds in the 187th Law Commission of India Report (2003) that the experience of execution for a prisoner is harrowing because there are times when his neck is not broken but strangles to death. The eye pops out of his head; tongue swells and protrudes from his mouth, neck prolly broken and the rope takes the large portion from his skin along with the flesh.
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