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Justice Narimans anxieties that right to vote, as heart of democracy, is in peril and Justice Bhuyans concerns that mass scale disenfranchisement reverses the first step taken to achieve equality in India through right to vote deserve serious consideration to save democracy in India

Bench headed by CJI Surya Kant refuses to restrain him from functioning or to insist on unanimous EC decisions for now, and seeks replies from the Centre, the Election Commission and the Commissioners.

ONE CANNOT HELP BUT DRAW painful parallels to the 2012 Nirbhaya case, calling into question whether systemic law enforcement mechanisms have made any meaningful progress in the decade since then, said Supreme Court on September 28 while taking a suo moto cognisance of the recent rape cases in Delhi NCR to evaluate systemic, preventive, and monitoring frameworks currently in place to ensure safety in public spaces across Delhi-NCR. The bench of Justices Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran adduced ne

A Solicitor Generals stray word about Naxalites turned a courtroom argument about a penal laws vagueness into a question about the petitioners character instead.

THE FIRST ARGUMENT by R.K. Garg I encountered was in Ranjit D. Udeshi v. State of Maharashtra , which was part of our criminal law course in the Faculty of Law. Garg was counsel for Udeshi, the owner of the Popular Book Stall in Bombay, who had been convicted for obscenity under S.292 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 for selling D.H. Lawrences novel Lady Chatterleys Lover. Garg argued that S.292 was an unconstitutional restriction on the freedom of speech and expression under Article 19(1)(a). The

THE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION FOR CONSTITUTION (LAFC) has written to the Chief Justice of India questioning the special listing and muted live proceedings in the case of Noida District Magistrate Medha Roopam. LAFC has sent an open letter to the Chief Justice of India protesting the listing of two petitions filed over strictures passed against Gautam Buddh Nagar District Magistrate Medha Roopam. The letter, dated September 24, objects to the matter being placed before a particular bench outside the or

Gandhis understanding that right to vote as a form of direct action against powers that be and Ambedkars interpretation of adult suffrage as right to active and direct participation to sustain associated life gets shattered by a compromised ECI