There was a shocking admission by a former CBI officer last week regarding the investigation the country’s premier agency conducted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. The officer, V Thiagarajan, ...
~By Inderjit Badhwar
The ugly tug-of-war between the “state” of Delhi and the lieutenant governor (LG) seems finally to be coming to a head. This ungainly power struggle, which has made a mockery o...
~By Inderjit Badhwar
A well-known senior high court judge recently confided that one reason that the Indian judicial system often fails the litmus test of speedy justice and is straddled with an un...
~By Inderjit Badhwar
It is time that those who profess to be hardline Hindus or the guardians of this great religious tradition stop scoring goals against themselves and their undoubtedly magnifice...
Above: The Talwars walk out of Dasna Jail on October 16, three days after they were scheduled to be released from imprisonment. Picture: Anil Shakya
~By Inderjit Badhwar
The Indian penal system ...
~By Inderjit Badhwar
A few years ago, I wrote a cover story for India Legal which attracted widespread attention—both critical and laudatory. To use my own words, judges must often have to rush in ...
~By Inderjit Badhwar
The Indian prime minister is a magician at making storms disappear into a teacup. But try as he might, he is finding it a mite difficult in trying to weather the gusts of Hurri...
Justice Karanam Sreedhar Rao has rightly focused attention in his column in this issue of India Legal on the malignancy that has metastasized throughout our judicial system. It is an affliction known ...
~By Inderjit Badhwar
President Donald Trump, in his maiden speech to the United Nations General Assembly, has enunciated what appears to be a dangerous new war doctrine in which the international r...
~By Inderjit Badhwar
The people of Kashmir embraced India and spurned Pakistan well before India embraced Kashmir. How many people recognise this fact as the strongest building block on which to re...