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THE HON'BLE SUPREME COURT'S directive to progressively reduce IPS deputation in Central Armed Police Forces was meant to be transformative. On 23rd May 2025, in the case of Sanjay Prakash & Ors. v. Union of India , the orders directed the recognition of CAPF Group A officers as Organised Group A Services (OGAS), a status that should have guaranteed them parity with IAS and IFS peers. The court's judgment directed a two-year timeline for phasing out the IPS Deputation from the Senior ranks up to

CHIEF JUSTICE Dipak Mishras tumultuous tenure was followed by that of Justice Ranjan Gogoi, who had been one of the judges addressing the press conference, though he would later claim he had only done so reluctantly. When Justice Gogoi was taking over, many of us, including Justice Nariman and I, felt it would be the best time for the courts leadership. He was tough, but equitably tough. He did not distinguish between which lawyer was appearing before him, was always ready with his brief and cou

WHEN PROTESTS ACROSS the world erupt regarding inequality within schools and neglected educational priorities, led primarily by students, there is hope that they are asking democracies to honour two connected promises: quality education for all and the freedom to demand it. Whether the questions revolve around missing teachers or broken infrastructure, the demand reflects the distance between equality promised within a democracy and the actual opportunity it provides or fails to provide. The sch

WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA , through the Preamble of the Constitution, apart from solemnly resolving to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC vowed to secure to all its citizens, among others, liberty of thought, expression The sanctity of liberty of thought and expression is inviolable regardless of any development including unprecedented technological innovations taking place during the last two decades. Therefore, privacy, integrally associated with liberty of t

THE REPORT OF RITU SARIN in Indian Express on October 10, 2026, with a screaming headline that As Chief Justice of India, Justice D Y Chandrachud was too deferential to the Government when it came to appointments remind Mahatma Gandhis article, The Hallucination of Law Courts published in Young India on October 6, 1920. Ritu Sarins report is based on the forthcoming book Without Fear ofFavour of justice ((Retd) Sanjay Kaul of Supreme Court being published by Juggernaut later this month. It devas

WHEN A COURT GRANTS BAIL , it makes a judicial determination that the liberty of the accused may safely be restored pending trial. Whether that determination takes effect, however, depends upon an administrative sequence that follows the order, over which the accused exercises no control. Where that sequence fails, the order of release remains on file and the person to whom it relates remains in prison. The Supreme Court addressed this precise failure three years ago. In In Re: Policy Strategy f

ON OCTOBER 16 AROUND two thousand people succeeded in gathering in Delhis Connaught Circus holding national flag to participate in the Lehra Do Tiranga (wave the tricolour) march in spite of the Modi regime unleashing coercive power of Delhi police in an unabashed manner to prevent them and Cockroach Janata Party leader Abhijit Dipke and feisty Neha Vora of All India Students Organisation (AISA) for leading the march. Such blatant use of force and intimidation for crushing dissent did not deter

In 1963, private forest owners in Malabar challenged provisions of the Kerala Forest Act, 1961 (Act IV of 1962). The question before the Court was whether the State could deprive forest owners of their existing right to capture and own elephants found on their land. In Kuppathode Madhavan Nair v State of Kerala (1963), the Kerala High Court sided with the owners. Applying common-law principles inherited from the colonial period, it held that ownership of land conferred a qualified right over wil

A DEMOCRACY DOES NOT have to formally suspend its Constitution to make dissent difficult. Sometimes, it is enough to close the routes through which citizens reach one another, restrict access to the spaces where they assemble, and make the costs of protest so high that people begin to withdraw before they are stopped. When public infrastructure becomes an instrument for controlling political participation, the suppression of dissent extends beyond the policing of a crowd. The events reported in