The functioning of the judiciary reveals that it has exercised its powers in creative ways and devised new strategies to ensure the protection of human rights of prisoners. In recent decades, the ...
The serious judicial intervention on behalf of undertrial prisoners began as early as 1979, when reports in The Indian Express highlighted the plight of thousands languishing in prisons without trial.
Proposing the death penalty for religious conversion of girls is not only bizarre but deserves to be condemned by all." ...
The landmark judgment in Swapnil Tripathi v. Supreme Court of India, brought about a transformative shift in the Indian ...
CHENNAI: Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, ...
Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on March 17 an NGO’s plea seeking that the current practice of appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) solely by the executive and the ...
The court was hearing Congress MP Imran Pratapgarhi’s plea seeking to quash a Gujarat Police case over a poem he had posted ...
The U.S. Department of Justice argued that foreign nations are not "persons" protected by the Constitution's Fifth Amendment ...
The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing of a petition challenging the constitutional validity ... Solicitor General of India (SGI) Tushar Mehta and Additional Solicitor General ...
The Central Government has officially notified the transfer of Justice Atul Sreedharan from the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir ...
The Codava National Council (CNC), along with economist and former Union minister Dr. Subramanian Swamy, has filed a Public ...