India passed its first official enactment on data in the form of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and gradually the rules in its fulfilment are being evaluated. However, there have bee...
Even as there was furore over MP Kalyan Banerjee’s mimicry of Vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar, he said it was his fundamental right to do so. Can mimicking a target be a potential basis for legal act...
A plea in the Delhi High Court has led to “status quo” on the translocation of deer from Deer Park to Rajasthan. Translocation has to be done with care as it could led to the species’ extinction
The Rajya Sabha recently passed the National Capital Territory of Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Second (Amendment) Bill, 2023, which seeks to extend the validity of a central act on unauthorised co...
Reactions to the Supreme Court judgment on Article 370 abrogation have been many and diverse. Among such reactions, the voice of Fali Nariman, India’s pre-eminent jurist and constitutional expert has...
As the Ranbir Kapoor starrer Animal rakes in crores at the box office, questions are being raised about the unbridled violence and misogyny. Has cinematic license become an excuse for wayward filmmaking? How have the courts reacted to such cinematic excess?
A recent case in the Delhi High Court exposes a harrowing tale of blatant subversion of a welfare scheme enacted for extending the benefit of quality education to the economically weaker sections of society by the more affluent and well-connected
The controversial observations made by the Calcutta High Court which advised young girls to “control sexual urge” have been described as “objectionable and unwarranted” by the Supreme Court which has asked judges to refrain from expressing “personal views or preach”
Even though marriage may be a union of souls, a judgment of the Karnataka High Court makes it clear that the right to privacy trumps all rights and all Aadhaar information cannot be demanded by a spouse
The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, and its implications are being examined by the Indian Armed Forces in order to determine the potential employment opportunities for this community