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“Be you ever so high”: A brief history of the Supreme Court’s call for impartial agencies
The Jain Hawala decision was meant to have freed agencies like CBI and ED from Union interference. The government keeps finding a backdoor
28th Feb 2024
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Aligarh Muslim University Case: A historical counter
The AMU Act has to be read as a key way-stop on the continuum of the institution’s history, not as something that breaks with it
27th Feb 2024
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Farewell Fali
A tribute to Fali Nariman, a commercial lawyer from Bombay who became one of India's finest constitutional law advocates
24th Feb 2024
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Five must-reads on sub-classification within reserved categories
A revisiting of the Chinnaiah judgement raises questions about sub-classification in reservations for Scheduled Castes
22nd Feb 2024
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Supreme Court declares AAP’s Kuldeep Kumar as the Mayor of Chandigarh; sets aside old election results
The Bench led by the Chief Justice held the Presiding Officer accountable for ballot tampering and directed a show cause notice to be issued
20th Feb 2024
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RTI, privacy, proportionality, empirical evidence…and AI transcripts—key themes from the Electoral Bonds judgement
We highlight four aspects that stood out to us in the Court’s ruling on the unconstitutionality of the Electoral Bonds Scheme
20th Feb 2024
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“Where is your power to mark the ballot papers?” Supreme Court asks Presiding Officer of Chandigarh mayoral election
The Court ordered all the ballot papers to be placed before it by 2:00pm tomorrow and directed their safe transport from Chandigarh
19th Feb 2024
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Proportionality: Tried and Tested
In ruling that the Electoral Bond Scheme is invalid, the Court applied the double proportionality test to balance between fundamental rights
19th Feb 2024