MN Venkatachaliah

This week’s cover story is part of our continuing reportage on a subject that is perhaps the most explosive constitutional showdown since the Founding Fathers, in 1950, framed the principles, laws, rules and regulations within whose framework the institutions of the newly-founded Indian Republic are designed and meant to function.

Chief Justice DY Chandrachud is helming the judiciary at a crucial juncture when many sensitive issues are up for hearing. Naturally, expectations are high. Chief Patron of India Legal and former Chief Justice of India (CJI) MN VENKATACHALIAH spoke about his challenges to SANJAY RAMAN SINHA.

He has been appointed as the 16th attorney general of India. A veteran of four  decades of law practice in the Supreme Court and a nonpolitical man of varied interests, all eyes are on him as he takes up the top law officer’s  post of the country

A recent case of a judge allegedly helping an accused in a scam has led to a debate on whether an internal model code of conduct is needed. The process to handle such allegations should also be revisited

The new CJI's term will also fall under the spectre of the coronavirus pandemic, posing a challenge for the country, its people and the judiciary, for the second year running

Beginning this Independence Day, the country should see a slow deregulation of high-speed internet services across the Union Territory of J&K. This is what the centre told the Supreme Court during a contempt hearing in this case.