Binny Yadav

The case of Zoharbee vs Imam Khan exposes a silent crisis in India’s multilingual judiciary—where a single mistranslated word can tilt the scales of justice

When Chief Justice of India Justice BR Gavai declared that “India’s roads are unsafe,” it wasn’t just a courtroom observation—it was an indictment of an urban crisis. With over 35,000 pedestrians and 54,000 two-wheeler deaths in 2023, the apex court’s latest order demands that states finally recognise walking and cycling as fundamental rights, not acts of risk

By Inderjit Badhwar T...

As India’s constitutional ideals face testing times, the chief justice’s reminder that “what is legal is not always just” revives the Gandhian-Ambedkarite dialogue—that morality must remain the heartbeat of the law

By Inderjit Badhwar E...

India faces a rising wave of scams where fear, profiling, and technology collide. From retirees to seasoned professionals, no one is safe from the new weapon of psychological fraud: the so-called “digital arrest”

The top court cracks down on police stations where CCTV “failures” hide custodial torture

In a sharp ruling against judicial inertia, the apex court warns that delayed bail amounts to denied bail, underscoring the constitutional imperative to treat liberty as a fundamental right, not a discretionary favour

Five years after the February 2020 Delhi “riots”, the continued incarceration of activists like Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and Gulfisha Fatima without trial highlights a grave erosion of liberty. The Delhi High Court’s denial of bail under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act exposes how pre-trial punishment has become the new normal in India’s justice system

Even environmental activism must respect the limits of judicial authority, says the top court in a landmark ruling