A parallel penal system which is outside the purview of judicial oversight, which is not accountable to anyone, and which can penalize anybody whom the political dispensation dislikes with total impun...
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Centre on a petition seeking the evacuation from Iran’s Qom of over 850 Shia Muslim pilgrims, 250 of whom are suspected to have contracted the corona...
Moments of clarity and reason are always valuable: in the India of today, extraordinarily so. A five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court has ruled that the office of the Chief Justice of Ind...
The notion of the juvenile is a troubling one in the context of crime. According to the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act, 2000 anyone under 18 is a child. Predictably, the participation of m...
Senior Supreme Court judge Justice D.Y. Chandrachud on Saturday said the true test of a democracy was its ability to ensure space for every individual to voice his or her opinion without fear of retri...