Kevin Sebastian

The Indian Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on compelled speech, largely developed through cases relating to cinema halls, is undercooked

We summarise the 148 page landmark ruling that has directed amendments to prison manuals within three months

If the nomination is accepted by the Union, Justice Khanna will serve as India’s 51st Chief Justice from 11 November 2024

In September, the Court granted bail to two state ministers and heard cases on the R.G. Kar incident, bulldozer demolitions and child rights

The SC found Balaji’s incarceration for 15 months without trial to be ‘unreasonable’, given the length of sentence for the alleged offence

SCO tracks how the Supreme Court may have brought incremental relaxations to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act since 2022

By drawing on the ‘bail is rule, jail is exception’ proposition in a PMLA case again, the Court may have softened its 2022 interpretation

Constitution Bench cases on affirmative action, mining taxes, arbitration and driving licences dominated the Court’s docket in August

Two recent dissents raised the question about smaller benches referring matters to larger benches. We look at the Court’s jurisprudence.

Favouring a retrospective effect, the SC noted that a prospective overruling was not “constitutionally just” towards the state governments